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After Antiochus met defeat at the Battle of Magnesia and was forced to accept Rome's terms, Hannibal fled again, making a stop in Armenia.
At the battles of Thermopylae and Magnesia, Antiochus's forces were resoundingly defeated and he was compelled to make peace and sign the Treaty of Apamea in ( 188 BC ), the main clause of which saw the Seleucids agree to pay a large indemnity, retreat from Anatolia and to never again attempt to expand Seleucid territory west of the Taurus Mountains.
He was made governor of Magnesia, and lived there for the rest of his life.
He was made governor of the district of Magnesia on the Maeander River in Asia Minor, and assigned the revenues of three cities ; Magnesia ( about 50 talents per year-" for bread "), Myus (" for meat ") and Lampsacus (" for wine ").
Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.
Philip was also tagus of Thessaly, and he claimed as his own Magnesia, with the important harbour of Pagasae.
Artaxerxes I offered asylum to Themistocles, who was the winner of the Battle of Salamis, after Themistocles was ostracized from Athens and Artaxerxes I gave him Magnesia, Myus and Lampsacus to maintain him in bread, meat and wine, Palaescepsis to provide him with clothes and he gave him Percote with bedding for his house.
Rancho Mirage was incorporated in 1973 from a merger of Mirage Cove with five unincorporated areas known as the " Cove communities " ( Desert, Magnesia, Palmas, Tamarisk and Thunderbird ), but had 3, 000 permanent residents at the time.
Euthydemus was allegedly a native of Magnesia ( though the exact site is unknown ), son of the Greek General Apollodotus, born c. 295 BC, who might have been son of Sophytes, and by his marriage to a sister of Diodotus II and daughter of Diodotus I, born c. 250 BC, was the father of Demetrius I according to Strabo and Polybius ; he could possibly have had other royal descendants, such as sons Antimachus I, Apollodotus I and Pantaleon.
He was elected consul in 190 BC, and later that year led ( with his brother ) the Roman forces to victory at the Battle of Magnesia.
He was supreme commander at Magnesia and thus received full credit ( at his brother's insistence ) for the victory over Antiochus.
The Battle of Magnesia was fought in 190 BC near Magnesia ad Sipylum, on the plains of Lydia ( modern Turkey ), between the Romans, led by the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio and his brother, the famed general Scipio Africanus, with their ally Eumenes II of Pergamum against the army of Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire.
Some believe that Hannibal was present at Magnesia, this is false however because Hannibal, who had commanded the fleet and lost at Eurymedon, had retreated and then fled to Crete for fear that Antiochus would lose and turn him over to the Romans.
When the Seleucid Empire was defeated by the Romans in 189 BCE at the Battle of Magnesia it began to fall apart and new kingdoms were established on its territory by local authorities.
In the beginning of the 20th century, as medicine and health-awareness advanced, the validity of the Springs ' healing powers decreased slightly, but the hotel still flourished, and in 1905, a major renovation of the complex included a monumental double-decked colonnade, which connected the hotel's main dining room to a columned pavilion at the Magnesia Springs across Shober's Run, as well as a new building with a spring-fed indoor pool, reportedly the first such facility in the United States at the time it was built.
In the North section of Magnesia, Lake Karla was formerly found.
Magnesia was created as a prefecture.
As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the prefecture was split into the Magnesia and Sporades regional units.
Approaching Artemisium towards the end of summer, the Persian navy was caught in a gale off the coast of Magnesia and lost around a third of their 1200 ships.

Magnesia and one
Magnesia (, Magnisía, ), deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is one of the regional units of Greece.
The province of Volos () was one of the provinces of the Magnesia Prefecture.
The province of Almyros () was one of the provinces of Magnesia.
The province of Skopelos () was one of the provinces of the Magnesia Prefecture.
Not far off the mineral springs by the coast, known to the Romans as Neptuniae aquae and later renamed Acqua Magnesia, are still in use, except one containing arsenic which was blocked up both by the ancients and again in 1839 as a precaution.
In the decisive battle of Magnesia with the Romans in 190 BC, Zeuxis was one of the commanders of the center, and after the defeat of Antiochus was one of the ambassadors sent to Scipio Asiaticus and Scipio Africanus to sue for peace, on which mission he proceeded to Rome.

Magnesia and few
In 1998, the motorway had 6-lanes up to north of Thebes, and 4 lanes from Thebes up to the Tempe Valley with a few sections at western Magnesia still having 2 lanes.

Magnesia and towns
Local and regional artefacts from antique Magnesia, Sardes and other regional towns are displayed.

Magnesia and part
The first event in the history of Ionia for which there is a trustworthy account is the inroad of the Cimmerii, who ravaged a great part of Asia Minor, including Lydia, and sacked Magnesia on the Maeander, but were foiled in their attack upon Ephesus.
The word magnet in Greek meant " stone from Magnesia ", a part of ancient Greece where lodestones were found.
As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the regional unit Sporades was created out of part of the former Magnesia Prefecture.
Phthiotis was a region of ancient Greece that covered the northern part of the present regional unit Phthiotis and the southern part of present Magnesia.
The Magnetes ( Greek: ) were an ancient Greek tribe living in Thessalian Magnesia who took part in the Trojan War.
Mount Othrys (-oros Othrys, also Όθρη-Othri ) is a mountain in central Greece, in the northeastern part of Phthiotis and southern part of Magnesia.
Pelion is part of the Magnesia regional unit ( capital city: Volos ) and embraces twenty-four villages including:

Magnesia and Anatolia
When Antiochus refuses, the Battle of Magnesia is fought near Magnesia ad Sipylum, on the plains of Lydia in Anatolia, between the Romans, led by the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio and his brother, Scipio Africanus, with their ally Eumenes II of Pergamum, and the army of Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire.
The Romans followed up their success by invading Anatolia, and the decisive victory of Scipio Asiaticus at Magnesia ad Sipylum ( 190 BC ), following the defeat of Hannibal at sea off Side, delivered Asia Minor into their hands.
They later also contributed to the Greek colonisation by founding two prosperous cities in Western Anatolia, Magnesia on the Maeander and Magnesia ad Sipylum.
Sayce linked the reliefs near Magnesia on the Maeander in western Anatolia to those of the site at Yazilikaya in the Turkish plateau, and recognised that they belonged to an unidentified pre-Greek culture.
Interest in Hermogenes of Priene ( late 3rd-early 2nd century BCE ), the Hellenistic architect of a temple of Artemis Leukophryene ( Artemision ) at Magnesia in Lydia, an Ionian colony on the banks of the Maeander river in Anatolia, has been sparked by references to his esthetic made by the 1st century Roman architect Vitruvius ( De Architectura, books iii, 2 and 6 ).
Magnesia or Magnesia on the Maeander ( or Μαγνησία ἡ ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ, ) was an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, considerable in size, at an important location commercially and strategically in the triangle of Priene, Ephesus and Tralles.
* Magnesia on the Maeander, an ancient Greek city in Anatolia
Traditional view held that the name " Magnesia " derived from the tribe of Magnetes who would have immigrated here from Thessaly at the dawn of the region's recorded history, although a connection with native Anatolian languages has also been suggested of recent date, particularly on the basis of discoveries made in the Hittite archives treating the Luwian western Anatolia.

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