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- There is a wide chronological range of proposed dates that have included the final conquest of the Greek heartlands by Rome in 146 BC following the Achaean War, the final defeat of the Ptolemaic Kingdom at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, the end of the reign of Hadrian in AD 138, and the move by Roman emperor Constantine the Great of the capital of the Roman Empire to Constantinople in AD 330.
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3 days ago · After the Greek victory at Salamis in 480 BC, the Persian commander Mardonius had Alexander I of Macedon sent to Athens as a chief envoy to orchestrate an alliance between the Achaemenid Empire and Athens.
2 days ago · Battle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans under King Leonidas and other Greek allies hold back the Persians led by Xerxes I for three days but are defeated. Sep 480 BCE Battle of Salamis where the Greek naval fleet led by Themistocles defeats the invading armada of Xerxes I of Persia .
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1 day ago · The Seleucid Empire (/ s ɪ ˈ lj uː s ɪ d /; Ancient Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Σελευκιδῶν, romanized: Basileía tōn Seleukidōn, lit. 'Realm of the Seleucids') was a Hellenistic power [10] [11] in West Asia during the Hellenistic period .
1 day ago · In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, [1] which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of ...
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