The role of the eastern states in the dismantling of the Seleucia empire and its fall (250-126 BC)‎

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This study aims to highlight the role of the eastern states - India - Iran – the Arab Gulf in the fall of the Seleucid rule.

The weak Seleucid policy in the East led them to lose their influence in it.

These states were given a political role similar to self-ruling.

This was accompanied by the fact that these states had a civilized dimension to which they were revered, which enabled the two most prominent kingdoms in them to secede from them.

The study has adopted the descriptive historical method of the events and linked them to each other, and then analyzed them to reach the desired results.

This study has been divided into an introduction and sections, the first of which is the leaders’ conferences, then the establishment of the Seleucid Empire, and the third is the relations of the eastern states with the empire; While the fourth section deals with the struggles over the throne and the fall of the state, then the conclusion of the study and its most prominent results, including: A- Seleucid ambitions broad compared to the Ptolemies, which kept their state away from conflicts and did not fall until more than 30 years after the end of the Seleucid Empire.

B- Disputes between the heirs of the throne in which the expansion of the empire was one of its most prominent causes and consequences at the same time for the fall.

C- There was the multiplicity of political forces that the Seleucids had to confront, especially the Romans, who defeated the Seleucids in the Battle of Magnesia, and the losses that the Apamea Treaty led to losses that could not be overcome.