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Fourth Syrian War

219–217 BCE · 3rd century BCE · Part of the Syrian Wars

The Fourth Syrian War (219–217 BCE) was fought between the Seleucid king Antiochus III and Ptolemy IV of Egypt for control of Coele-Syria. Antiochus overran much of Phoenicia and Palestine, but Ptolemy's army, strengthened with native Egyptian troops, defeated him at Raphia in 217 BCE. The war restored Ptolemaic rule in Coele-Syria until Antiochus took the region in the Fifth Syrian War.

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