Seleucids
Seleucids,rulers of the empire founded by Seleucus I, governing a vast realm, stretching from Anatolia, via Syria and Babylonia to Iran and thence to central Asia. The Seleucids from the start continued (and adapted) Achaemenid Persian institutions in the army (use of local peoples), in administration (e.g. taxation and satrapal organization), colonizing policies, the use of plural ‘royal capitals’ (Seleuceia on Tigris, Antioch, Sardis), the use of local languages (and people) in local bureaucracy; also, from the beginning, Babylon, Babylonia, and the Babylonian kingship were central, in Seleucid planning, to an empire, the pivotal point of which, joining east and west, was the Fertile Crescent.
By the peace of Apamea (188), negotiated between Antiochus III and Rome, the Seleucids gave up...
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