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Diadochi

(Encyclopedia)Diadochi dīădˈəkī [key] [Gr.,=successors], the Macedonian generals and administrators who succeeded Alexander the Great. Alexander's empire, the largest that the world had known to that time, was...

Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro

(Encyclopedia)Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro pāˈᵺrō mānānˈdĕth dā ävēlāsˈ [key], 1519–74, Spanish naval officer and colonizer, founder of Saint Augustine, Fla. He went to sea as a youth and so distingu...

Ipsus

(Encyclopedia)Ipsus ĭpˈsəs [key], small town, ancient Phrygia, Asia Minor. Antigonus I, who had summoned his son Demetrius to his aid, was defeated and slain there by his rivals Seleucus and Lysimachus in 301 b....

Antiochus IV

(Encyclopedia)Antiochus IV (Antiochus Epiphanes) ēpĭfˈənēz [key], d. 163 b.c., king of Syria (175 b.c.–163 b.c.), son of Antiochus III and successor of his brother Seleucus IV. His nephew (later Demetrius I)...

Origen

(Encyclopedia)Origen ôrˈĭjĭn [key], 185?–254?, Christian philosopher and scholar. His full name was Origines Adamantius, and he was born in Egypt, probably in Alexandria. When he was quite young, his father w...

Marion, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Marion, Fort: see Saint Augustine, Fla. ...

Antigonus I

(Encyclopedia)Antigonus I (Antigonus the One-Eyed or Antigonus Cyclops) ăntigˈənəs sīˈklo˘ps [key], 382?–301 b.c., general of Alexander the Great and ruler in Asia. He was made (333 b.c.) governor of Phryg...

Annaba

(Encyclopedia)Annaba ăn-näbˈə [key], formerly Bône (bōn), city, capital of Annaba prov., extreme NE Algeria, a port on the Mediterranean Sea. One of the country's leading ports, t...

Craiova

(Encyclopedia)Craiova kräyŏˈvä [key], city, SW Romania, in Walachia, on the Jiu River, a tributary of the ...

Perseus, king of Macedon

(Encyclopedia)Perseus, c.212–166 b.c., last king of Macedon (179–168 b.c.), son and successor of Philip V. He intrigued against his younger brother, Demetrius, eventually bringing about the latter's execution b...