Ipsus

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Ipsus

(ˈɪpsəs)

(Placename) an ancient town in Asia Minor, in S Phrygia: site of a decisive battle (301 bc) in the Wars of the Diadochi in which Lysimachus and Seleucus defeated Antigonus and Demetrius

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Ipsus - a battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC); Lysimachus and Seleucus defeated Antigonus and Demetrius

battle of Ipsus

Anatolia, Asia Minor - a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey

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