Seleucus I Nicator

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Noun1.Seleucus I Nicator - Macedonian general who accompanied Alexander the Great into AsiaSeleucus I Nicator - Macedonian general who accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia; founded a line of kings who reigned in Asia Minor until 65 BC (358-281 BC)
Seleucus, Seleucus I
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They discuss excavation coins from the sanctuary of Dionysus in Kali Vryssi, prefecture of Drama; the perhaps Babylonian Alexander Hoard, 1996; the Sardes Mint under Seleucus I Nicator; bronze coinage of Ptolemaic Egypt in the second century BC; Tiberius Claudius Drusus (d.
American journal of numismatics; 22
321); with the aid of Kautilya, an administrator and politician, he set himself up as king of Magadha; he went on to wipe out the Greek dominions in northern India while the Greeks were distracted by the Wars of the Diadochi, and went on to subjugate all of India north of the Narmada River; he repulsed an invasion led by Seleucus I Nicator (305), and by this victory gained much of Arachosia (southern Afghanistan) and Gedrosia (Baluchistan) in exchange for 500 war elephants; he gave up the throne and retired from public life (297), and died, traditionally by his own hand, in 286.
Chandragupta Maurya (Sandrocottus) (d. 286 B.C.)
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