The Syrian war was mainly caused by the military conflict between Rome and Antioch III, king of Seleucus, in Greece, Aegean Sea and Asia Minor. The Syrian War refers to the Roman-Syrian War (192-188 BC), also known as the Antioch War or the Syrian War.

As the Kingdom of Macedonia was defeated by Rome in the Second Macedonian War, Antioch III thought it was a good opportunity to expand into Greece. Since 196, these two forces gradually confronted each other, and tried to form alliances with many small Greek forces to expand their influence in Greece, which eventually led to the Rome-Syria War.

In the end, the war was completely won by Rome, and Antioch III was forced to sign the Apamia Peace Treaty, which made Seleucid cede Asia Minor to Rome's allies, further confirmed Rome's hegemony in Greece, and made Rome the only first-class power in the Mediterranean.

Military conflict

After landing in Greece, Antioch III prayed that other Greek forces could join the anti-Roman alliance. However, the Achaea alliance declared war on him in return, and even Philip V, Macedonia, was willing to help Rome, which caused the most powerful Macedonia on the Greek peninsula to become Antioch's opponent.

Although there was some progress in the early stage of the war, six months after Antioch landed in Greece, Rome completed the preliminary preparations for the war, and sent two Roman legions to Greece, bypassing Etoria and entering Thessaly. At the same time, the Macedonian army also entered Thessaly. Antioch III hoped to resist the Roman army at the hot spring pass.

However, the result of Wenquanguan campaign caused heavy losses to his army, so that Antioch III could only withdraw to Asia Minor, and the isolated Ethiopian League could only surrender to Rome after the Ethiopian War.

Although Seleucu had a powerful navy in the Aegean Sea, Rome formed a huge fleet under the alliance with Pagama and Rhode Island, and defeated Seleucu's navy at the Battle of Cortexo.

in 191 BC, the Roman allied fleet blocked the ports along the coast of Asia Minor, and Antioch III tried to rebuild his navy, and even sent Hannibal, a Carthaginian famous soldier, to Phoenicia to build a fleet to prevent the Roman army from crossing the Aegean Sea. He also hoped to defeat the Roman allied fleet in the naval battle and disperse the allied forces, and then break them one by one.

Like Antioch's plan, the Roman Alliance Fleet was raided by Seleucus Fleet, and Rhode Island lost a large number of ships, so that Wang Ou Menis II of Pagama sent troops to the North Aegean Sea to support the army's operations, leaving Rome and Rhode Island to continue to monitor Seleucus Fleet in Samos, and the Roman Coalition forces were dispersed.

However, Hannibal's fleet was intercepted by the Rhode Island fleet on its way to the Da Daniil Strait, and was defeated in the Battle of Olimidon. In desperation, Antioch III had to bet on the remaining fleet and was defeated again in the Battle of Myonnesus in the first 19 years.

After a series of naval victories, the Roman army could cross the Da Daniil Strait and enter Asia without fear, and Antioch III also gathered a huge army to respond. Although Antioch intended to accept the pre-war conditions of Rome to avoid the war, it was too late. The two sides fought in the Battle of Magnesia, and the commander of the Roman army was Scipio Africanus's younger brother Lukius Corneli us Scipio Asia Ticus.

Although Antioch III succeeded in breaking the left wing of the Roman allied forces, the left wing of his Seleuc army was defeated, so that the central infantry phalanx was attacked by the allied forces, and most of Seleuc troops were killed or injured. Antioch could only accept the fact that the war had failed. After this war, Lukius won the title of "conquering Asia". Extended information

The war caused more than 1.5 million Syrians to be permanently disabled

Since the crisis broke out in Syria in mid-March 211, the conflict that lasted for seven years has caused at least 35, deaths, more than 1.5 million people to be permanently disabled and nearly 11 million people to be displaced ... In 218, about 13.1 million Syrians were waiting for various humanitarian assistance. Call on the international community to take effective measures immediately to end the Syrian war as soon as possible.

Al Jazeera reported on the evening of March 12, 218 that Geert Kapalar, the head of the Middle East and North Africa region of UNICEF, pointed out in an interview with our reporter that the war that lasted for many years has caused more than 1.5 million people in Syria to be permanently disabled, of which more than 86, had their arms or legs amputated; 3.3 million children in Syria are facing various explosion threats.

In the past 217, the number of Syrian children killed by war was the highest since the outbreak of the Syrian crisis in 211, an increase of 5% compared with 216. The war in Syria is still burning. In the first two months of 218 alone, 1, children were killed or injured. "The warring parties should stop killing children and attacking medical and health institutions and schools." In his speech, Geert called on the international community to take effective measures immediately to end the war as soon as possible.

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