Dynasty that ruled Syria and other lands after the breakup of Alexander's empire.

The kingdom founded in the borders of Syria, Iraq, Iran and South Eastern Asia Minor in the Hellenistic Period.

(se·LEU·cids. A Macedonian dynasty 312-64 BCE, founded by Seleucus I a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, that ruled much of southwestern Asia.

A Syrian Hellenistic dynasty that controlled Palestine from approximately 200 C.E. until the Hasmonean or Maccabean Revolt of 175–152 B.C.E. The dynasty's attempts to enforce Hellenization at the cost of Jewish law and tradition was the catalyst both for the Revolt and for the composition of the Book of Daniel, and seems to have played a role in the genesis of the Dead Sea Scrolls community.

si lU sids, -cids] One of the regional dynasties that followed the death of Alexander the Great; founded in Persia. (p. 136)