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Antiochus Hierax, the younger brother of Seleucus …
Years: 241BCE - 241BCE
Antiochus Hierax, the younger brother of Seleucus II, had been sent as ruler to Seleucid Anatolia, where their mother Laodice is living.
Perhaps in league with his mother, late in the war with Egypt he sends an army into Syria ostensibly to assist Seleucus but actually to seize the rest of the empire.
The appearance of Hierax' troops, however, brings peace between Egypt and his brother.
By the peace terms of the Third Syrian War, concluded in 241, Ptolemy manages to keep the Orontes River region (Seleucia Pieria) and Antioch, both in Syria; and …
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Years: 241BCE - 241BCE
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