Description: A map of western Asia showing the partition of the empire established by Alexander the Great after his death (323 BC). From the empire, four well defined monarchies arose, led by the rulers Lysimachus, Cassander, Seleucus Nicator, and Ptolemy Soter. Lysimachus held Thrace and the western part of Asia Minor, Cassander governed Macedonia, and claimed authority over Greece, however, he never secured complete control of Greece, and is therefore not included in his domains on the map. Seleucus Nictor ruled Syria and the countries eastward to the Indus as the Kingdom of the Seleucidæ, and Ptolemy held sway over Egypt, Cyprus, and the southern coast of Anatolia.
Place Names: Regional Miscellaneous, Asia, Europ
ISO Topic Categories: political, physical, kWorldMedSea, kWorldAfroAsia, kWorldEurasia
Keywords: Kingdoms of the Successors of Alexander, political, physical, physical features, major political subdivisions, political, physical, kWorldMedSea, kWorldAfroAsia, kWorldEurasia, Unknown, 300 BC
Source: Phillip Van Ness Myers, L.H.D., A History of Greece (Boston, MA: Ginn and Company, 1897) 456
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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