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Name: Roman-Seleucid War

Type: Event

Start: 191 BC

End: 187 BC

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Was a military conflict between two coalitions led by the Roman Republic and the Seleucid Empire. The fighting ended with a clear Roman victory. In the Treaty of Apamea, the Seleucids were forced to give up Asia Minor, which fell to Roman allies.

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  • January 191 BC: Seleucid Invasion of Greece up to the Thermopylae.
  • January 188 BC: Livy, a Roman historian, mentioned the surrender of Cephallenia to the Roman Republic in 189 BC. He specifically named the Nesiotae, Cranii, Palenses, and Samaei as the groups involved in the surrender. This event marked the Roman expansion into the territory of Same.
  • January 190 BC: The Roman general Marcus Fulvius Nobilior finally conquered Zakynthos in 191 BC for Rome.
  • January 190 BC: Athamania is conquered by the Macedonians.
  • January 189 BC: Probably not ocntrolled anymore by the seleucids when armenia was created.
  • January 189 BC: After the defeat of Antiochus III in 190 BC they were included among the provinces annexed by the Romans to the dominions of Eumenes of Pergamum.
  • January 188 BC: Cranii surrendered to the Romans without resistance in 189 BC.
  • January 188 BC: In 189 BC, Livy mentioned the surrender of Cephallenia to the Roman Republic. The Nesiotae, Cranii, Palenses, and Samaei were tribes living in Pronnoi, the territory that was taken over by the Romans. Livy was a Roman historian known for his detailed accounts of Roman history.

  • 1. Treaty of Apamea


    Was a peace treaty conducted in 188 BC between the Roman Republic and Antiochus III, ruler of the Seleucid Empire. It ended the Roman-Seleucid War.

  • January 187 BC: The Romans sent an army to Greece which defeated Antiochus' army at Thermopylae. This defeat proved crushing, and the Seleucids were forced to retreat from Greece.
  • January 187 BC: King Amynander returns and frees Athamania from the Macedonians.
  • January 187 BC: Oiniadai was returned to Acarnania after the Roman-Seleucid War.
  • January 187 BC: The defeat of Antiochus in 189 BC robbed the league of its principal foreign ally and made it impossible to stand alone in continued opposition to Rome. The league was forced to sign a peace treaty with Rome that made it a subject ally of the republic.

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