Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire (Βασιλεία τῶν Σελευκιδῶν - Basileía tōn Seleukidōn) was a country in the Middle East and Caucasus founded on SD73. It controlled territories including either part of or the entirety of the modern states of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia. The Seleucid Empire was ruled by the Seleucid Dynasty under their Basilea Antiochis Seleucid I.
== Origins ==
=== Seleucid Coup ===
In the waning days of the Georgian Empire, much discontent had grown due to ineffective Georgian Rule and weak ruling, and while the partial democratisation of the empire was loved by the lower classes, it enraged the conservative aristocratic families of the empire, particularly the Seleucid dynasty, a dynasty that had fled the Therian Republic after it's and fled to Mesopotamia, becoming a Greco-Persian dynasty of great prestige.
On SD73 (27/03/2023), assassins sent by the Seleucid matriarch Antiochis stormed the Imperial Georgian Palace in Batumi, slaughtering the imperial guards and the Queen of Kings Carrow I. Her head was supposedly brought to Antiochis who, after wiping away the strange milky substance all over the late monarch's face, laughed at it and barked insults at it before throwing it in the Euphrates river.
=== Proclamation ===
The Empire was officially proclaimed shortly after the coup, with all items associated with the Georgian Empire destroyed and replaced with Seleucid items. The claims were also partially adjusted, with expansion north into Bactria and Sogdia and west into Anatolia. The empire was then reorganised into a multitude of provinces in order to better help in governing it. The capital, previously named Ktesiphon, was renamed to the far humbler name of Seleucia.
=== Collapse ===
The arrival of the The Mujahideen to the area created great discourse in the Seleucid Empire, especially as attempts to dispel the terrorists were rebuffed, despite offers of land in Afghanistan and Ethiopia. Eventually, the Mujahideen's relentless taunting and the lack of any hope made the Basileia leave, with the Seleucid Empire collapsing and eventually being partitioned between the Atlantine Commonwealth, Arabia, and the Free Union of Rosaria.
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