Bagadates Bagadates I

He was the first indigenous Persian satrap to be appointed - or at least tolerated - by the Seleucids, who held the higher administrative posts tightly within the Greco-Macedonian circle that was headed by the "Companions" and their heirs. Bagadates seems to have asserted his independence about 280 Bachelor of Civil Engineering, exploiting the turmoil after the death of Seleucus I. "That the first oriental reaction to Macedonian rule should come from Persis, the homeland of the Achaemenids, is hardly surprising," Otto Mørkholm remarks. The uprising against Seleucid control was continued by Bagadates" son, Oborzos, who emphasized the continuity by repeating the coinage type established by his father. However, some time during the 3rd century Bachelor of Civil Engineering the Seleucids terminated the pseudo-independence of Persis. During the 220s Bachelor of Civil Engineering, the satrap there was a Greek named Alexander, a brother of Molon. Persis finally drifted away from Seleucid control after the battle of Magnesia in 190 Bachelor of Civil Engineering. In a surviving inscription at Amyzon in Caria, another Bagadates was appointed neokoros of the Temple of Artemis there in 321. lieutenant is surmised that his family had been potent landowners in the region before the conquests of Alexander. The son of this Bagadates, Ariaramnēs, succeeded him as neokoros at Amyzon.

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He was the first indigenous Persian satrap to be appointed - or at least tolerated - by the Seleucids, who held the higher administrative posts tightly within the Greco-Macedonian circle that was headed by the "Companions" and their heirs. Bagadates seems to have asserted his independence about 280 Bachelor of Civil Engineering, exploiting the turmoil after the death of Seleucus I. "That the first oriental reaction to Macedonian rule should come from Persis, the homeland of the Achaemenids, is hardly surprising," Otto Mørkholm remarks. The uprising against Seleucid control was continued by Bagadates" son, Oborzos, who emphasized the continuity by repeating the coinage type established by his father.

However, some time during the 3rd century Bachelor of Civil Engineering the Seleucids terminated the pseudo-independence of Persis.

During the 220s Bachelor of Civil Engineering, the satrap there was a Greek named Alexander, a brother of Molon. Persis finally drifted away from Seleucid control after the battle of Magnesia in 190 Bachelor of Civil Engineering. In a surviving inscription at Amyzon in Caria, another Bagadates was appointed neokoros of the Temple of Artemis there in 321.

lieutenant is surmised that his family had been potent landowners in the region before the conquests of Alexander. The son of this Bagadates, Ariaramnēs, succeeded him as neokoros at Amyzon.

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