What is Seleucid Empire?
{{Infobox Former Country |native_name = |conventional_long_name = Seleucid Empire |common_name = |continent = Asia |region = Central Asia |era = [[Hellenistic period]] |government_type = Monarchy |status = |status_text = |year_start = 312 BC |year_end = 63 BC |event_start = [[Wars of the Diadochi]] |event_end = [[Syria (Roman province)|Annexed by Rome]] |event1 = [[Battle of Ipsus]] |date_event1 = 301 BC |event2 = [[Roman–Syrian War]] |date_event2 = 192–188 BC |event3 = [[Treaty of Apamea]] |date_event3 = 188 BC |event4 = [[Maccabean Revolt]] |date_event4 = 167–160 BC | |p1 = Macedonian Empire |flag_p1 = Vergina Sun WIPO.svg |border_p1 = no |s1 = Syria (Roman province){{!}}Province of Syria |flag_s1 = Spqrstone.jpg |s2 = Parthian Empire |flag_s2 = |s3 = Greco-Bactrian Kingdom |flag_s3 = |s4 = Hasmonean kingdom |flag_s4 = |s5 = Magadha |flag_s5 = |s6 = Osroene |flag_s6 = |stat_year1 = 301 BC<ref name=size>{{cite journal|journal=Social Science History |title=Size and duration of empires: growth-decline curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D |last=Rein Taagepera|volume=3 |issue=3/4 |year=1979 |pages=115–138 |doi=10.2307/1170959 |jstor=1170959}}</ref> |stat_area1 = 3000000 |stat_year2 = 240 BC<ref name=size/> |stat_area2 = 2600000 |stat_year3 = 175 BC<ref name=size/> |stat_area3 = 800000 |stat_year4 = 100 BC <ref name=size/> |stat_area4 = 100000 |image_map = Hellenistic world 281 B.C..png |image_map_caption = The em