Syrian wars

The Syrian Wars are the modern term for a series of military conflicts between Ptolemaic Egypt and the Seleucids in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. Mostly it was about the possession of the economically and strategically important Levant area , which was also the main theater of war.

• First Syrian War (274-271 BC)
• Second Syrian War (260-253 BC)
• Third Syrian War (246–241 BC)
• Fourth Syrian War (219-217 BC)
• Fifth Syrian War (202-195 BC)
• Sixth Syrian War (169–168 BC)

Although it succeeded the Seleucids in the last of these wars to win a decisive victory over the Ptolemies, they that verge stood to conquer not only Palestine but even Egypt itself, the intervention of the new superpower prevented Rome the Seleucid Antiochus IV. To the exploitation of his success. Since Egypt was henceforth effectively under Roman protection and the ability of the Hellenistic powers to wage independent wars was now severely restricted, the year 168 BC marked the year. The end of the Syrian wars.

literature

• John D. Grainger: The Syrian Wars. Brill, Boston / Leiden 2010, ISBN 9789004188310 .

See also

• Egypt in Greco-Roman times
• Syrian War, see Roman-Syrian War (192–188 BC), military conflict between Rome and the Seleucids
• Civil war in Syria , from 2011