Sunrise of the Empire of Seleucids. Chernyavsky S.N.

The most vast of the states that arose on the wreckage of the empire of Alexander the Great was the "Asian kingdom." In science, it is customary to call Syrian, because the center of this power was in Syria. In fact, it was a direct heir to the state of the Achaemenids - the ancient Iran, who extended the Bosphorus of the Bosphorus Strait from the Afghan buries to the azure shores. The Greeks called him the Lord of Asia. The kingdom was ruled by the descendants of one of the commanders of Alexander the Great - Seleucus I winner. About the first descendants of Seleucus, the rise and falls of the kingdom, about fratricidal wars, about attempts to create a stable empire and the next book of the series tells about the collapse of these attempts.