Event Brother's War

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On the death of his father, in 246 BCE, Antiochus Herax waged war on his brother Seleucus II Callinicus, the ruler of the Seleucid Kingdom, in order to seize Anatolia for himself as an independent kingdom.

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  • January 238 BC: On the death of his father, who was the ruler of the Seleucid Empire, Antiochos Herax waged war on his brother Seleucus II Callinicus, in order to seize Anatolia for himself as an independent kingdom. He defeated his brother at the Battle of Ancyra.