Seleucid Campaign in Asia Minor

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Were a series of succesful military campaigns by Antiochus III to expand Selecuid territories in Asia Minor.

Chronology

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1. Conquest of territories of Pergamon

Was a military campaign led by Antiochus III the Great against the Kingdom of Pergamon.

January 197 BC: Taking advantage of the Second Macedonian War between Rome and Philip V, Antiochos led an ambitious policy which led him to intervene in Asia Minor and Thrace with the intention, it seems, of restoring the empire of Seleucus. It clashes with the kingdom of Pergamum from 198 BC and occupies the territories taken by Attale I in Achaios, without Eumenes II being able to intervene. He also got along with Prusias of Bithynia, to whom he offered a portion of Phrygia.

2. Conquest of the territories in Asia minor up to the the Hellespont

Was a military campaign led by Seleucid ruler Antiochus III the Great that resulted in conquests up to the Hellespont.

January 196 BC: In the spring of 197, Seleucid ruler Antiochos III reached the Hellespont and then occupied the Straits, subjugating the Greek cities that were autonomous or formerly under Antigonid authority. He made Ephesus his main naval base in the Aegean Sea. In Ionia its successes are more limited: Miletus and Magnesia of the Meander remain independent.