Significant305 BCE – 303 BCE · 2 years

Seleucid-Mauryan War

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Indus Valley and the eastern Iranian/Afghan borderlands

Estimated casualties

0single estimate · no range published

Ancient figures unreliable / no reliable estimate. It is uncertain whether a pitched battle even occurred; sources record only the settlement.

SOURCEunrecorded

Seleucus I Nicator crossed the Indus into the former eastern satrapies of Alexander's empire and confronted Chandragupta Maurya. The conflict ended in a treaty ceding the Indus Valley and adjoining regions to the Mauryas in exchange for 500 war elephants and sealed by a marriage alliance.

Belligerents2

Seleucid Empire
Maurya Empire

ON THE MAPSeleucid EmpireMaurya Empire

Sources

Wikipedia: Seleucid-Mauryan war
Wikipedia: Seleucus I Nicator
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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