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Year of the Metal Monkey庚申(at the beginning of Earth Sheep己未)

Syria: 11/12 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

  • Battle of Ipsos ( Phrygia ): Antigonus I subject with his son Demetrius I Poliorketes in the Fourth Diadochenkrieg in Asia Minor the opponent Diadochi coalition of Cassander, Lysimachus and Seleucus I. On both sides coming war elephants used. Antigonus falls in battle, he can be regarded as the last representative of the imperial unity of Alexander's empire. Its territory is divided among the winners: Lysimachus wins the western Asia Minor and the Black Sea coast, Seleukides Cappadocia ( under the governor Ariarathes II ) and Syria. Demetrius escapes to Ephesus and is reflected in the next few years with a private mercenary army through. Pyrrhus I, who mitkämpfte as brother of Demetrius on its side at Ipsos, comes later (for four years) as a hostage in the care of Ptolemy I.
  • Lysimachus names the city Antigoneia the Sea of ​​Marmara in Nicaea to. In Pergamum he sets Philetairos, the ancestors of the Attalids, as governor of a.
  • Seleucus founded in the newly acquired Syria, the city of Antioch, which replaces soon Seleucia as the most important city of the Seleucid Empire.

Western Mediterranean

  • Marcus Valerius Corvus is appointed by the Romans to the dictator. He knocks out a survey of the Marsi and defeated the Etruscans at Rusellae.

Died

  • Antigonus I Monophthalmos, Diadochenkönig in the empire of Alexander, falls at Ipsos (c. 382 BC)
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