Ptolemaic Kingdom - The Third Syrian War

Time: 246 BC

Place: Syria

Details: Ptolemy III Euergetes abandoned his predecessors' policy of keeping out of the wars of the other Macedonian successor kingdoms and plunged into the Third Syrian War (246–241 BC) with the Seleucid Empire of Syria.

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