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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Battles of the Diadochi, Satraps of the Alexandrian Empire, Treaties of the Diadochi, Ptolemy I Soter, Seleucus I Nicator, King Porus, Antigonus I Monophthalmus, Nearchus, Hellenistic armies, Wars of the Diadochi, Partition of Babylon, Lysimachus, Battle of Ipsus, Battle of Gabiene, Peucestas, Babylonian War, Eumenes, Atropates, Stasanor, Cleomenes of Naucratis, Peithon, Partition of Triparadisus, Taxiles, Oxyartes, Laomedon of Mytilene, Sibyrtius, Battle of Paraitacene, Battle of Crannon, Siege of Rhodes, Asander, Sames of Commagene, Neoptolemus, Mithrenes, Xerxes of Armenia, Menander, Arsames I, Second War of the Diadochi, Phrataphernes, Cleitus the White, Philotas, Ada of Caria, Philoxenus, Battle of Corupedium, Calas, Philip, Nicanor, Archon of Pella, Orontes III, Battle of Gaza, Antigenes, Tlepolemus, Battle of Salamis, Andragoras, Abulites, Diadochoupolis, Amyntas. Excerpt: Seleucus I (given the surname by later generations of Nicator, Greek: Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ (Hindi: ), i.e. Seleucus the Victor) (ca. 358 BC - 281 BC) was a Macedonian officer of Alexander the Great and one of the Diadochi. In the Wars of the Diadochi that took place after Alexander's death, Seleucus established the Seleucid dynasty and the Seleucid Empire. His kingdom would be one of the last holdouts of Alexander's former empire to Roman rule. They were only outlived by the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt by roughly 34 years. After the death of Alexander, Seleucus was nominated as the satrap of Babylon in 320 BC. Antigonus forced Seleucus to flee from Babylon, but, supported by Ptolemy, he was able to return in 312 BC. Seleucus' later conquests include Persia and Media. He formed an alliance with the Indian King Chandragupta Maurya. Seleucus defeated Antigonus in the battle of Ipsus in 301 BC and Lysimachus in the battle of...
