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Hyspaosines

d. 124 BCE · 2nd century BCE

Hyspaosines was the founder of the kingdom of Characene at the head of the Persian Gulf. A Seleucid governor of Iranian origin, he restored the flooded city of Alexandria on the Tigris as Charax Spasinou, declared independence as Seleucid power collapsed around 141 BCE, and briefly held Babylon in 127 BCE during the wars with Parthia. He died in 124 BCE.

Hyspaosines
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