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13 hours ago · v. t. e. 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 ...
13 hours ago · Lahore. Punjab. Pakistan. c. 1-7th century AD. The origin of Lahore can be traced back somewhere between 1st and 7th centuries A.D. [ 93 ] One of the oldest cities of South Asia. The first document that mentions Lahore by name is the Hudud al-'Alam ("The Regions of the World"), written by an unknown author in 982 AD.
13 hours ago · Ptolemaic Kingdom. Attalid kingdom. Macedonia province. Macedonia (/ ˌmæsɪˈdoʊniə / ⓘ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə; Greek: Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (/ ˈmæsɪdɒn / MASS-ih-don), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, [ 6 ] which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. [ 7 ]
13 hours ago · Military history of India. The predecessors to the contemporary Army of India were many: the sepoy regiments, native cavalry, irregular horse and Indian sapper and miner companies raised by the three British presidencies. The Army of India was raised under the British Raj in the 19th century by taking the erstwhile presidency armies, merging ...
13 hours ago · Phoenicia (/ fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə /), [4] or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. [5][6] The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their ...
13 hours ago · Karpas. Der Karpas (griechisch Καρπασία Karpasía, türkisch Karpaz, seltener Kırpaşa), auch Karpass, ist eine knapp 900 km² umfassende und mindestens 80 km lange [1] Halbinsel im Nordosten der Mittelmeerinsel Zypern. Sie bildet den östlichsten Teil des Kyrenia-Gebirges. Seine östliche Spitze bildet das Kap Apostolos Andreas, dem ...
13 hours ago · Post-imperial period. 609 BC – c. AD 240. See also: History of the Assyrians. Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.
