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==Course of the War==
==Course of the War==


===Defense of Bactrianna===
===Battle of the Persian Gates===
<!--- Cynegus splits the Palleucid army into two: Terpsichore confined to the East, Alexicles to the South --->


===Arachosian Campaign of Cynegus===
===Eastern Theater===


===Palleucid Advance to Susa===
====Defense of Bactrianna====
 
====Arachosian Campaign of Cynegus====
<!--- Terpsichore retreats to Gedrosia and establishes a new capital at Terpsichoria-by-the-Erytha (present-day Muscat)--->
 
====Stalemate at Gedrosia and Carmania====
 
====Push to the Persepolis Ruins====
 
====Two Campaigns towards Aspadana and Ecbatana====
 
====Penetration through the Zagros Mountains====
 
===Mesopotamian Theater===
 
====Standoff at the Tigris-Euphrates Tributary====
<!--- Palleucids keep the area from the Tributary to the Kuwaiti coastline and the eastern Arabian coast under their control, resisting the armies under the command of Athenadorus Eupator --->
 
====Palleucid Susa Campaign====
 
====Retaking of Seleucia====
 
===Egyptian Theater===
 
====Nile Delta Campaign====
 
====Red Telemachia Campaign====


===Surrender of Cynegus===
===Surrender of Cynegus===

Latest revision as of 10:23, 7 August 2020

Seleucid Civil War of 315
Civil War of 627 SE
War between Cynegus and Palleuceia

Busts of Seleucus XV Cynegus and Terpsichore II Palleuceia
Date315 – 318 CE
Location
Mesopotamia, Persianna, Bactrianna, Arachosia
Result

Palleucid victory

  • Palleuceia ascends the throne as Basilinna Mega of the Seleucid Empire
  • Execution of Cynegus
Belligerents
Cynegian Faction Palleucid Faction
Commanders and leaders

The Seleucid Civil War of 315, also known as the Civil war of 627 SE and in literary terms the War between Cynegus and Palleuceia, was a civil war that was fought between two factions led by two royals of the Seleucid Dynasty, Seleucus XV Cynegus and Terpsichore II Palleuceia. It ended with Palleuceia rising as the victor and ascending as the succeeding monarch of the Seleucid Empire and the execution of Cynegus and the exile of his family in Scythianna.

Course of the War

Battle of the Persian Gates

Eastern Theater

Defense of Bactrianna

Arachosian Campaign of Cynegus

Stalemate at Gedrosia and Carmania

Push to the Persepolis Ruins

Two Campaigns towards Aspadana and Ecbatana

Penetration through the Zagros Mountains

Mesopotamian Theater

Standoff at the Tigris-Euphrates Tributary

Palleucid Susa Campaign

Retaking of Seleucia

Egyptian Theater

Nile Delta Campaign

Red Telemachia Campaign

Surrender of Cynegus