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Also Known As Seleukos Nikator
Born c.358 BCE • Carchemish • Syria
Died c.August 281 BCE or c.September 281 BCE • Thrace • Greece
Title / Office king (305BC-281BC), Seleucid Empire
Founder Antioch
Role In Battle of Ipsos • Battle of the Hydaspes
Philip II
Philip II
king of Macedonia
Coin depicting Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy I Soter
Macedonian king of Egypt
Lysimachus
king of Macedonia
Cassander
king of Macedonia
Demetrius I Poliorcetes
king of Macedonia
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
king of Macedonia
Antiochus III
Antiochus III the Great
Seleucid king
Antigonus II Gonatas
king of Macedonia
Perseus
king of Macedonia
Craterus
Macedonian general
Bust of Vespasian, found at Ostia; in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
Vespasian
Roman emperor
Demetrius II
king of Macedonia
Augustus
Augustus
Roman emperor
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Mongol ruler
Trajan
Trajan
Roman emperor
Mehmed II
Ottoman sultan
Darius I
Darius I
king of Persia
Maḥmūd
king of Ghazna
Epaminondas
Greek statesman
Bayezid II
Ottoman sultan

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