Significant281 BCE

Battle of Corupedium

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Corupedium, plain of Lydia (western Anatolia)

Estimated casualties

0single estimate · no range published

Ancient figures unreliable / no reliable estimate.

SOURCEunrecorded

The last battle between the original successors of Alexander the Great, in which Seleucus I Nicator defeated and killed Lysimachus in Lydia. The victory briefly left Seleucus master of most of Alexander's empire before his own assassination months later.

Belligerents2

Seleucid Empire (Seleucus I)
Kingdom of Lysimachus

Conflict graph

PART OFWars of the Diadochi

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Corupedium
Livius.org (Jona Lendering)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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