biography
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Seleucus I Nicator (‘Conqueror’)
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pronunciation:
[silookus, niykayt
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.358–281 BC)
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| biography:
| Macedonian general of Alexander the Great, and founder of the Seleucid dynasty. He rose from being satrap of Babylonia (321 BC) to being the ruler of an empire which stretched from Asia Minor to India. To hold his unwieldy empire together, he founded a new, more central capital at Antioch in N Syria (300 BC). |
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