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223 BC

With Hasdrubal the fair dead,the treasury almost empty and no reinforcements for his army, Hannibal Barca realised that resistance against Massaliot League was futile. In the peace negotiations Massaliot League demanded, besides Barcid kingdom to become a small vassal, Hannibal's surrender. Hannibal thereupon went into voluntary exile. He journeyed to North Africa and then to Rome, where he was honourably received by consuls Flaminus and Philus. With the conquest of Iberia peninsula, the League reached an "Empire status".

• Two new cities, Edessa and Akrotiri, builded to Iberia to control better the new territories. As usual lands distributed to the tagmata soldiers.
• Callaeci,Vaccaei and Barcid Kingdom are now Massaliot League vassals.

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Seleucid Empire

• The Seleucid king Seleucus III is assassinated in Phrygia by members of his army while on campaign against Attalus of Pergamon.
• Seleucus is succeeded by his younger brother, Antiochus III. From the previous administration, Antiochus III retains Hermeias as his chief minister, Molon and his brother Alexander as governors of the eastern provinces of Media and Persis.

India

• Samprati and Kalinga kingdoms join forces and march against Dasharatha. In another major battle Dasharatha wins but sustains heavy losses thus not able to capitalise over the victory.

Ptolemaic Empire

• In a exhibition further in Red sea Ptolemaic forces conquer the Sabaean kingdom, making Red sea a "Ptolemaic lake”

Rome

• Mediolanum (modern Milan), stronghold of the Gallic tribe of the Insubres (led by Viridomarus), falls to Roman legions in Lombardy(led by consul, Marcus Claudius Marcellus), in the Battle of Clastidium. Marcus Claudius Marcellus personally slays the chief, Viridomarus. This victory removes the Gallic threat to Rome. Marcellus wins the spolia opima ("spoils of honour"; the arms taken by a general who kills an enemy chief in single combat) for the third and last time in Roman history.