Seleucus I
Seleucus I(Nicator: Conqueror) (c.358–281 BC), son of Antiochus (unknown), fought with Alexander the Great in the latter's campaigns from Asia Minor to Persia, Bactria, Sogdiana and, ‘India’, as a general. Subsequently he was to replay this ‘conquest’ as he, and his son, Antiochus I, brought the eastern ‘Upper Satrapies’ of the former Achaemenid Persian empire gradually under Seleucid control and colonization, wisely negotiating after invasion (c.306) of the Indus region a settlement with Sandracottus, founder of the empire of the Mauryas. The detailed interpretation of the terms of this peace is uncertain, but Seleucus ceded the Indus valley, desert Gedrosia, Gandhara, the Swat valley tribes of the Parapamisadae, and east (i.e. desert) Arachosia. See India.
After Alexander's...
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