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Seleukid Settlements: Between Ethnic Identity and Mobility

Publication date: 11.03.2014

ELECTRUM, 2013, Volume 20, pp. 37 - 56

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Omar Coloru
Università di Pisa; Lungarno Pacinotti, 43, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Seleukid Settlements: Between Ethnic Identity and Mobility

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The present paper deals with the population of the Seleukid settlements in order to address issues about the settlers’ mobility and ethnic identity. By surveying the available evidence, this study aims in particular to understand the role played by non-Greek populations in the Seleukid Empire, trying to go beyond the thesis of an apartheid-like regime in which those ethnic groups would be socially as well as politically isolated from the Greco-Macedonian settlers.

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