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Name: Hasmonean Kingdom
Type: Polity
Start: 159 BC
End: 63 BC
Nation: hasmonean kingdom
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Hasmonean Kingdom
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Was the Kingdom that ruled over the territories of the former Kingdom of Israel. It originated during the Hellenistic Period, separating from the Seleucid Empire. As most of the Kingdoms of the region, it was made a Roman vassal during Pompey's Campaigns in the Mithridatic Wars.
Establishment
Chronology
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1. Maccabean Revolt
Was a Jewish rebellion, lasting from 167 to 160 BCE, agains the Seleucid Kingdom.
2. Expansion of the Hasmonean Kingdom
Were a series of military campaigns (against the Seleucid Kingdom and the Nabateans) by the Hasmonean Kings to expand their territory.
Military campaigns of Hasmonean King Jonathan.
Military campaigns of Hasmonean King Simon.
Military campaigns of Hasmonean King Hyrcanus I.
Military campaigns of Hasmonean King Aristobulus.
2.5.Conquests of Alexander Jannaeus
Military campaigns of Hasmonean King Alexander Jannaeus.
Was a battle between the Hasmoneans and the Nabataeans in 93 BC.
3. Mithridatic Wars
Were three conflicts fought by Rome against the Kingdom of Pontus and its allies between 88 BC and 63 BC. They are named after Mithridates VI, the King of Pontus during the course of the wars.
Was the last and longest of the three Mithridatic Wars, fought between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman Republic. The conflict ended in defeat for Mithridates, ending the Pontic Kingdom, ending the Seleucid Empire (by then a rump state), and also resulting in the Kingdom of Armenia becoming an allied client state of Rome.
4. Hasmonean Civil War
67 BC-63 BC: The Hasmonean Civil War was a civil war between two claimants to the Hasmonean Jewish Crown.
4.1.Hasmonean Kingdom becomes a client state of the Roman Republic
The intervention of the Roman Republic in the Hasmonean Civil War resulted in the Kingdom's loss of independence.
