The cause of the Syrian War was primarily a military conflict between Rome and the Seleucid king, Antiochus III, between Greece, the Aegean Sea, and Asia Minor. The Syriac War refers to the Roman Syriac War (192 B.C.-188 B.C.E.), also known as the Antiochian War or the Syrian War.
With the defeat of the Macedonian kingdom to Rome in the Second Macedonian War, Antiochus III saw a good opportunity to expand into Greece, and from 196 BC onwards the two powers gradually confronted each other under the table and attempted to ally themselves with the many minor powers in Greece in order to expand their own influence in the country, which ultimately led to the Roman-Syrian War.
The war ended in a complete victory for Rome, with Antiochus III forced to sign the Peace of Apamea, which led to the cession of Asia Minor by the Seleucid Empire to Rome's allies, and further confirmed Rome's hegemony in Greece, making it the only first-rate power in the Mediterranean.
Military conflict
After landing in Greece, Antiochus III prayed for other Greek powers to join the anti-Roman alliance. However, the Achaean League declared war on him as a response, and even Philip V of Macedon was willing to help Rome, which resulted in the possibility that Macedonia, the strongest power in the Hellenic Peninsula, might turn into Antiochus's enemy.
While there was some progress in the early stages of the war, six months after Anzac landed in Greece Rome completed its initial preparations for the war by sending two Roman legions to land in Greece, bypassing Aetolia and entering Thessaly, while Macedonian forces also entered Thessaly, and Anzac III hoped to fend off the Roman armies at the Spa Pass.
But the Battle of the Spa Pass turned out to be a heavy loss for his army, so that Anzac III could only withdraw to Asia Minor, and the isolated Aetolian League could only surrender to Rome after the Aetolian War.
While the Seleucids possessed a powerful navy in the Aegean Sea, Rome formed a huge fleet in alliance with Pagama and Rhodes, and defeated the Seleucid navy at the Battle of Colchicus.
In 191 B.C., the Roman allied fleet blockaded ports along the coast of Asia Minor, and Antiochus III, trying to rebuild his navy, sent Hannibal, a famous Carthaginian general, to Phoenicia to build a fleet to prevent the Roman land forces from crossing the Aegean Sea, and hoped that the allied armies could be dispersed by defeating the Roman allied fleet in naval battles, and then be broken up one by one separately.
As planned by Anzac, the Roman fleet was attacked by the Seleucid fleet, and Rhodes lost a large number of ships, which caused King Eumenes II of Pagama to send troops to the North Aegean to support the army's operation, leaving Rome and Rhodes to continue to monitor the Seleucid fleet in Samos, and the Roman allied forces were thus dispersed.
However, when Hannibal's fleet was on its way to the Dardanelles it was intercepted by the Rhodesian fleet and was defeated at the Battle of Olimidon. Antiochus III had no choice but to gamble with the rest of his fleet and was defeated again at the Battle of Myonnesus in 190 BC.
After a series of victories at sea, the Roman army was able to cross the Dardanelles into Asia with impunity, and Antiochus III assembled a huge army to match. Though Antiochus intended to accept Rome's pre-war terms to avoid battle, it was too late, and the two sides fought at the Battle of Magnesia, with the Roman army commanded by the younger brother of Sibyllineus the Great, Lucius Cornelius Sibyllineus, who was the commander in chief of the Roman army. Cus.
While Antiochus III succeeded in defeating the left wing of the Roman allies, the left wing of his own Seleucid army was defeated, causing the central infantry square to be pinched by the allied forces, and half of the Seleucid army was killed or wounded, and Antiochus could only accept the fact that he had lost the battle. After this battle, Lucius was honored with the title of "Conqueror of Asia".
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Since the crisis erupted in Syria in mid-March 2011, the seven-year conflict*** has left at least 350,000 people dead, more than 1.5 million permanently disabled, and nearly 11 million people displaced. ...... In 2018, some 13.1 million Syrians are in the process of losing their lives. Some 13.1 million Syrians are waiting for various types of humanitarian assistance. The international community is called upon to take immediate and effective measures to end the war in Syria as soon as possible.
Al Jazeera reported on the evening of March 12, 2018, that the head of UNICEF's Middle East and North Africa region, Helter Kapalar, pointed out in an interview with our correspondent that the war, which has lasted for many years, has caused more than 1.5 million lifelong disabilities in Syria, of which more than 86,000 have their arms or legs amputated; and that 3.3 million children in the Syrian territory are facing various threats of bombings.
This past 2017, the number of war-related deaths among Syrian children was the highest since the Syrian crisis began in 2011, a 50 percent increase compared to 2016. The war in Syria is still burning, with 1,000 children killed or injured in the first two months of 2018 alone. "The warring parties should stop killing and injuring children and stop hitting healthcare institutions and schools." In his speech, Heldt called on the international community to take immediate and effective measures to end the war as soon as possible.
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