Parthia (Old Persian: ???????????????? Parθava; Parthian: ???????????????? Parθaw; Middle Persian: ???????????????????????? Pahlaw) is a historical region located in northeastern Greater Iran.It was conquered and subjugated by the empire of the Medes during the 7th century BC, was incorporated into the subsequent Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC, and formed part …

Seleucus I Nicator (/ s ə ˈ lj uː k ə s n aɪ ˈ k eɪ t ər /; c. 358 – 281 BC; Greek: Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ Séleukos Nikátōr Attic Greek pronunciation: [sé.leu̯.kos], lit. 'the Victorious') was a Macedonian Greek general who was an officer and successor of Alexander the Great.Seleucus was the founder of the eponymous Seleucid Empire.In the power struggles that followed ...

Biography Family background and childhood. In 193 BC Cleopatra I, a Seleucid princess, married King Ptolemy V of Egypt.Their granddaughter Cleopatra Thea of the Ptolemaic dynasty married the claimant Alexander Balas half a century later in 150 BC. She later married Demetrius II of Syria, and they had two sons. Demetrius II was captured and held as a prisoner by the …

The earlier Arabs called Sistan as Sijistan, from the Persian word Sagestan.It is a lowland region, lying round and eastwards from the Zarah lake, which includes deltas of Helmand and other rivers which drain into it. The Muslim conquest of Sistan began in 23 AH (643-644 AD) when Asim bin Amr and Abdallah ibn Amir invaded the region and besieged Zaranj. . The Sistanis concluded …

Between 1895 and 1945, Taiwan, including the Pescadores, was a colony of the Empire of Japan; following the defeat of Qing China in the First Sino-Japanese War, it ceded Taiwan to Japan under the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki.The short-lived Republic of Formosa resistance movement was quickly suppressed by the Japanese military. The fall of Tainan ended …

A Borjigin is a member of the Mongol sub-clan, which started with Bodonchar Munkhag of the Kiyat clan. Yesugei's descendants were thus said to be Kiyat-Borjigin. The senior Borjigids provided ruling princes for Mongolia and Inner Mongolia until the 20th century. The clan formed the ruling class among the Mongols and some other peoples of Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

The Maccabean Revolt (Hebrew: מרד החשמונאים) was a Jewish rebellion led by the Maccabees against the Seleucid Empire and against Hellenistic influence on Jewish life. The main phase of the revolt lasted from 167–160 BCE and ended with the Seleucids in control of Judea, but conflict between the Maccabees, Hellenized Jews, and the Seleucids continued until 134 BCE, with the …

The Parthian Empire (/ ˈ p ɑːr θ i ən /), also known as the Arsacid Empire (/ ˈ ɑːr s ə s ɪ d /), was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD. Its latter name comes from its founder, Arsaces I , [13] who led the Parni tribe in conquering the region of Parthia [14] in Iran 's northeast, then a ...

The Fall of Babylon denotes the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire after it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire in 539 BCE.. Nabonidus (Nabû-na'id, 556–539 BCE), son of the Assyrian priestess Adda-Guppi, came to the throne in 556 BCE, after overthrowing the young king Labashi-Marduk.For long periods he entrusted rule to his son, prince and coregent Belshazzar, …