RESEARCH SUMMARY: The Seleucid state remained completely away from the accounts of the Romans and absent from the stage of political conflict until the year 200 BC, the year in which Rome sent a delegation to the Seleucid king Antiochus III (223-187 BC) whose purpose was to ensure his neutrality in the event of war between it and his ally the King of Macedonia Philip V , and the Seleucid king found in that war an appropriate opportunity to recover his hereditary property in Asia Minor and

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... , but the fulfillment of his dream of recovering the legacy of his ancestors angered the Romans who saw this behavior as a threat to their interests in the countries of Greece, and that That seizure, in their view, marks the first stage of their expulsion from the land of the Greeks They became considered a zone of influence for them, and the dispute between Rome and the Seleucid King was exacerbated by the fact that the latter received the Carthaginian leader Hannibal (219-182 BC) who fled his country after his defeat at the Zama site in 202 BC. After a series of battles between the two parties, the Romans managed to defeat King Antiochus III near Magnesia in 189 BC and forced him to accept the terms of the Apamia Treaty in 188 BC which stipulated the most important conditions for him to give up all his possessions in Europe and Asia Minor until the northern Taurus Mountains and thus Rome became Only she has the highest say in the eastern Mediterranean, and the entire Hellenistic world no longer has a single state that can challenge her.