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Demetrius II (Ancient Greek: Δημήτριος Β`, Dēmḗtrios B; died 125 BC), called Nicator (Ancient Greek: Νικάτωρ, Nikátōr, "Victor"), was one of the sons of Demetrius I Soter. His mother may have been Laodice V , as was the case with his brother Antiochus VII Sidetes .
Roman historian Justin names a "Demetrius, king of the Indians," [2] who was an enemy of Eucratides the Great (reigned 172/171–145 BC). [3] Justin's Demetrius beleaguered the warlike Eucratides with an army of 60,000 men against the latter's garrison of 300, but still — according to the probably exaggerated account — eventually was defeated.
The year before, Eucratides had usurped the power in Greco-Bactria while one of its rulers, Demetrius II, was conquering parts of northern India. Demetrius then made his way back into Bactria and besieged Eucratides [1] at the site of Eucratideia. Demetrius had an army supposedly numbering 60,000 troops, [2] although this is
Demetrius II or Demetrios II may refer to: Demetrius II Aetolicus (died 229 BC), king of Macedon; Demetrius II of India (died ca. 150 BC) Demetrius II Nicator (died 125 BC), ruler of the Seleucid Empire; Demetrius II of Abkhazia (ruled 837/38–872/73 AD) Demetrius II of Georgia (died 1289 AD) Demetrius I of Georgia (died 1156 AD) Pope ...
Demetrius was born in either 275 or 274 BC and was the only child of King Antigonus II Gonatas by Phila, the daughter of Seleucus I. [3] He had an elder half-brother named Halcyoneus, but he died in an unknown battle sometime before the death of Antigonus in 239 BC. [4]
Demetrius' second wife was the Mongol woman Solghar, by whom he had two sons and a daughter: [5] Prince Baidu. Prince Iadgar. Princess Jigda, married Emperor Alexios II of Trebizond. [6] Demetrius married thirdly, c. 1280, Natela, a daughter of Beka I Jaqeli, Duke of Samtskhe and Lord High Steward of Georgia by whom he had a son:
With the Seleucids briefly unified, Demetrius II turned on his former Egyptian allies and was able to banish the Ptolemaic occupation force out of Antioch and Coele-Syria. Ptolemaic Egypt - which had seemingly made major territorial gains and reduced its long-time rival to a client state - was back controlling the same territory it had in 152 BC.
Zabinas managed to defeat Demetrius II, who fled to Tyre and was killed there, and thereafter ruled parts of Syria (128–123 BC), but soon he ran out of Egyptian support and was in turn defeated by Demetrius' son Antiochus VIII Grypus. Zabinas fled to the Seleucid capital Antiochia, where he plundered several temples.