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Major conflict219 BCE – 217 BCE · 2 years

Fourth Syrian War

Raphia · Coele-Syria

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Ptolemy IV's war with Antiochus III, decided by the Battle of Raphia (217 BC), one of the largest battles of the Hellenistic age.

Belligerents2

  • Ptolemaic Egypt
  • Seleucid Empire

ON THE MAPPtolemaic EgyptSeleucid Empire

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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31.60°N · 34.70°E · 219 BCE – 217 BCEWARS-ATLAS / CONFLICT / FOURTH-SYRIAN-WAR

Cite as: Fourth Syrian War (219 BCE – 217 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/fourth-syrian-war · Sources & methodology