Syrian Wars
Series of land wars between the Seleucid Empire and Ptolemaic Egypt (3rd-2nd centuries BC) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the wars between the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic Kingdom. For the war between Rome and the Seleucid Empire, see Roman–Seleucid War. For other uses, see Syrian War (disambiguation).
The Syrian Wars were a series of six wars between the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, successor states to Alexander the Great's empire, during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC over the region then called Coele-Syria, one of the few avenues into Egypt. These conflicts drained the material and manpower of both parties and led to their eventual destruction and conquest by Rome and Parthia. They are briefly mentioned in the biblical Books of the Maccabees.
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