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BBC - History - Cleopatra (c.69 BC - 30 BC) (365 words) |
 | Cleopatra was born in 69 BC - 68 BC. |
| Whether she was as beautiful as was claimed, she was a highly intelligent woman and an astute politician, who brought prosperity and peace to a country that was bankrupt and split by civil war. |
| In 48 BC Egypt became embroiled in the conflict in Rome between Julius Caesar and Pompey. |
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ninemsn Encarta - Cleopatra (547 words) |
| In 40 bc Antony was compelled to return to Rome, where he married Octavia, a sister of Octavian, later the Roman emperor Augustus. |
| In 34 bc, after a successful campaign against the Parthians, he celebrated his triumph at Alexandria and he and Cleopatra formally announced the division of the former empire of Alexander the Great between Cleopatra and her children. |
| At the naval battle of Actium in 31 bc, believing Antony's defeat to be inevitable, she withdrew her fleet from action, and she and Antony fled to Alexandria. |
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