Alexander II Zabinas
ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire
Years: 155BCE - 122BCE
Alexander II Zabinas, ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom, is a counter-king who emerges in the chaos following the Seleucidian loss of Mesopotamia to the Parthians.
Zabinas is a false Seleucid who claims to be an adoptive son of Antiochus VII Sidetes, but in fact seems to have been the son of an Egyptian merchant named Protarchus.
