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    model was Seleucus of Seleucia (b. 190 BC), a Hellenistic astronomer who flourished a century after Aristarchus in the Seleucid Empire. Seleucus was a proponent...
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    Antioch (category Seleucus I Nicator)
    fourth century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, as one of the tetrapoleis of Seleucis of Syria. Seleucus encouraged Greeks...
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  • Fehmi Kubilay Seleucia Pieria – Seleucus I Nicator Seleucia above Zeugma – Seleucus I Nicator Seleucia (Pamphylia) – Seleucus I Nicator Seleucia Sidera: named...
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    Şanlıurfa, Turkey. It was founded during the Hellenistic period by King Seleucus I Nicator (r. 305–281 BC), founder of the Seleucid Empire. It later became...
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    longer eight-thousand-plus mile voyage. Seleucus of Seleucia (c. 190 BC), who lived in the city of Seleucia in Mesopotamia, wrote that Earth is spherical...
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    (or "city-state"). In Seleucid times, Seleucus I Nicator, or one of his successors renamed Gaza into Seleucia to control the surrounding area against...
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    around it. His theory was not popular, and he had one named follower, Seleucus of Seleucia.Epicurus was the most radical. He correctly realized in the 4th century...
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  • knowledge of their influences." The Hellenistic Greek astronomer Seleucus of Seleucia, who advocated a heliocentric model in the 2nd century BC, wrote...
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    Cyrrhus (category Seleucus I Nicator)
    Greek: Κύρρος, romanized: Kyrrhos) is a city in ancient Syria founded by Seleucus Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals. Other names for the city...
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    Antigonus I Monophthalmus invades during the Third War of the Diadochi. Seleucus I Nicator, then governor of Babylon under Antigonus I Monophthalmus, fled...
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