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    The Battle of Sellasia took place during the summer of 222 BC between Macedon and the Achaean League, led by Antigonus III Doson, and Sparta under the...
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  • Sellasia (Greek: Σελλασία, before 1929: Βρουλιά - Vroulia) is a village in Laconia, Greece. It was the seat of the former municipality Oinountas. Since...
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    years following the defeat of the Spartan king Cleomenes III at the Battle of Sellasia, Sparta experienced a power vacuum that eventually led to the Spartan...
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    Cleomenes in the battle of Sellasia in 222. In 235 BC, Cleomenes III (r. 235–222 BC) ascended the throne of Sparta and began a program of reform aimed at...
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    Crypteia (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from June 2024)
    with only a dagger. During the Battle of Sellasia, the Spartan king Cleomenes III "called Damoteles, the commander of the Crypteia, and ordered him to...
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    Cleomenes III (category Agiad kings of Sparta)
    against the Achaean League under Aratus of Sicyon. After being defeated by the Achaeans in the Battle of Sellasia in 222 BC, he fled to Ptolemaic Egypt...
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    was defeated at the Battle of Sellasia by the joint forces of the Achaean League and Antigonus III Doson, the regent of Macedon. During the Social War...
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    troops fought as part of the Achaean force under Antigonus Doson at the Battle of Sellasia in 222 BC. Philip V sent Demetrius of Pharos to seize Messene...
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  • the Battle of Sellasia) Ptolemy III Euergetes (the Benefactor), king of Egypt Viridomarus, military leader of the Gaesatae (Gaul) Xi of Yan, king of the...
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    at least on an official basis, as we know of a similar elite force of the same size at the Battle of Sellasia in 222. However, it was the Achaean general...
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