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Name: Kingdom of Polyperchon

Type: Polity

Start: 318 BC

End: 316 BC

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Was the Kingdom of Polyperchon, one of the Macedonian Generals that partitioned the Empire of Alexander the Great.

Establishment


  • September 318 BC: Eumenes is allowed to withdraw from Nora and immediately allies himself with Polyperchon. Eumenes occupies Phenicia and builds a fleet.
  • September 318 BC: Polyperchon, the new Regent of the Empire, who decided to march his army south to force the Greek cities to side with him against Cassander and Antigonus.
  • November 318 BC: Eumenes secured the loyalty of 6,000 of Alexander's veterans, the Argyraspides and the Hypaspists, who were stationed in Cilicia.
  • Chronology


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    1. Wars of the Diadochi


    Were a series of conflicts that were fought between the generals of Alexander the Great, known as the Diadochi, over who would rule his empire following his death.

    1.1.Second War of the Diadochi

    Was the conflict between the coalition of Polyperchon (as regent of the Macedonian Empire), Olympias and Eumenes and the coalition of Cassander, Antigonus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus following the death of Cassander's father, Antipater (the old regent).

  • September 317 BC: From Athens Polyperchon marched on Megalopolis which had sided with Cassander and besieged the city. The siege failed and he had to retreat losing a lot of prestige and most of the Greek cities.
  • November 317 BC: Polyperchon retreated to Epyrus and along with Olympia was able to reinvade Macedonia.
  • April 316 BC: Cassander's victory: Olympias surrenders and is executed; Alexander IV Aigos and Roxane are placed under house arrest, Polyperchon retreats to the Peloponnese.
  • November 316 BC: Antigonus bribed the Argyraspides who arrested and handed over Eumenes. Antigonus had Eumenes and a couple of his officers executed. With Eumenes's death, the war in the eastern part of the Empire ended.

  • Disestablishment


  • April 316 BC: Cassander's victory: Olympias surrenders and is executed; Alexander IV Aigos and Roxane are placed under house arrest, Polyperchon retreats to the Peloponnese.
  • November 316 BC: Antigonus bribed the Argyraspides who arrested and handed over Eumenes. Antigonus had Eumenes and a couple of his officers executed. With Eumenes's death, the war in the eastern part of the Empire ended.
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