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The Seleucid kingdom, prevented from retaking the …
Years: 127BCE - 127BCE
The Seleucid kingdom, prevented from retaking the Parthian lands it once controlled, begins to rapidly disintegrate.
The defeat of Antiochus has finally ended Seleucid dominion over the countries east of the Euphrates River, and marks the beginning of small principalities in both the north and south of Mesopotamia.
In Mesene (also called Characene, Persian Meshan), a Seleucid satrap with an Iranian name, Hyspaosines (also called Aspasine, or Spasines, who reigns from 127 BCE to about 121 BCE, refortifies Antiochia, a town originally founded by Alexander the Great near the junction of the Eulaeus (Karun) and Tigris rivers, and calls it Spasinou Charax (“Fort of Spasines”).
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Years: 127BCE - 127BCE
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