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Basileía Párthios:
The Greco-Parthian Kingdom
An Alternate History Timeline
By Luis Felipe Salcedo


A Greco-Parthian stone palette, dated to the second century BCE.

"Out of all the frontiers of the classical world, none has endured so long in the poetic imagination of both European and Asian alike as the Greco-Parthian Kingdom. In its humble beginnings, the ancient Hellenistic state was sheltered from both barbarian nomads in the steppes by mountains to the north and the Seleukids by the great, arid deserts to the south. Protected by both vast deserts and tall mountains, the soldiers of Mégas Aléxandros' army who were sent to garrison and colonize the province saw a land that had until then been untouched by civilization. The people were a primitive but friendly sort who welcomed in the arrival of the settlers who would over the centuries intermix and create a strong, unique civilization.
- Unknown, 43 BCE.

Author's Footnote: At the suggestion of RBC from Countefactual.net, I decided to do myself a favor a favor of posting this time-line, an idea that I had been thinking for the past couple of days during my kick in AH.com: the idea of an independent Hellenistic kingdom formed under the satrap Andragoras who tried to win independence from the k. In our time-line, Andragoras' kingdom did not last so long and it would be the Parni under the Arsacids who would conquer them and later on, the rest of Persia, becoming the great nemesis of Rome as the Seleucids eclipsed into obscurity. This will try to answer what would happen if Andragoras succeeded in winning his independence and keeping out the Parni.
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