Year Numbering
Under the Seleucid Empire, the Macedonians adopted the Seleucid era. The year beginning on the 1st of Dios during what we call October 312 BCE was declared to be the year one of the Seleucid era.
Read more about this topic: Ancient Macedonian Calendar
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