Major conflict170 BCE – 168 BCE · 2 years

Sixth Syrian War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Pelusium · Memphis · Alexandria · Eleusis

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Antiochus IV's invasion of Egypt halted by Roman intervention (the 'Day of Eleusis').

Belligerents3

Ptolemaic Egypt
Seleucid Empire
Roman Republic

ON THE MAPPtolemaic EgyptSeleucid EmpireRoman Republic

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Sixth Syrian War (170 BCE – 168 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/sixth-syrian-war · Sources & methodology