The Mithridatic Wars were three conflicts fought by the Roman Republic against the Kingdom of Pontus and its allies between 88 and 63 BCE. They are named...
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The Second Mithridatic War (83–81 BC) was one of three wars fought between Pontus and the Roman Republic. This war was fought between King Mithridates...
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The First Mithridatic War (89–85 BC) was a war challenging the Roman Republic's expanding empire and rule over the Greek world. In this conflict, the Kingdom...
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The Third Mithridatic War (73–63 BC), the last and longest of the three Mithridatic Wars, was fought between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman Republic...
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ending the Hellenistic period. Macedonian Wars Mithridatic Wars Punic Wars Roman–Gallic Wars Roman–Persian Wars This set index article includes a list of related...
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the Roman province of Asia. After a long struggle with Rome in the Mithridatic Wars, Pontus was defeated. The kingdom had three cultural strands, which...
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Gaius Antonius Hybrida (section Mithridatic Wars)
either as a military tribune or as a legate. Two years earlier, the Mithridatic Wars had begun due to a dispute between Mithridates and Nicomedes III of...
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the First Mithridatic War (89–85 BC) between Rome and Pontus and its ally Armenia. Lucius Cornelius Sulla assumed command of the Roman war effort in 87...
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Pompey (category People of the Mithridatic Wars)
triumphs, served as a commander in the Sertorian War, the Third Servile War, the Third Mithridatic War, and in various other military campaigns. Pompey's...
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Sulla (category People of the Mithridatic Wars)
fighting and winning the coming civil war. Modern sources have been somewhat less damning, as the Mithridatic campaigns later showed that no quick victory...
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Pontus. They were prominent enemies of the Roman Republic during the Mithridatic Wars during the reign of Mithridates VI until the late 60s BC. In 48 BC...
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Pompey's campaign against the pirates (category Wars involving ancient Rome)
Florus, p. 7) Appian, Mithridatic Wars, 94. Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 26.2. Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 24.4-5. Appian, Mithridatic Wars, 96. Plutarch, Life...
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Mithridates VI Eupator (category Mithridatic kings of Pontus)
region, waging several hard-fought but ultimately unsuccessful wars (the Mithridatic Wars) to break Roman dominion over Asia and the Hellenic world. He...
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frequently culminated in the Roman–Parthian Wars. Anatolia came under Roman rule entirely following the Mithridatic Wars of 88–63 BC. Roman control of Anatolia...
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certain time. Appian. The Mithridatic Wars. to whom Perseus, king of Macedonia, gave his sister in marriage Appian. The Mithridatic Wars. his son-in-law, Diegylis...
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Lucullus (category People of the Mithridatic Wars)
service, he conquered the eastern kingdoms in the course of the Third Mithridatic War, exhibiting extraordinary generalship in diverse situations, most famously...
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Lucius Licinius Lucullus, commander of the forces engaged in the Third Mithridatic War but who appears to have been the proconsul of Macedonia, Marcus Terentius...
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History of Anatolia (section The Mithridatic Wars)
the Elder. The Mithridatic Wars were preceded by infighting that drew Rome into a war against Italian rebels known as the Social War in 90 BCE. Mithridates...
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threw the vast territories he conquered into a series of civil wars commonly known as the Wars of the Diadochi. Alexander assumed kingship over ancient Macedonia...
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BC – 86 BC – First Mithridatic War (Mithridatic Wars) Battle of Chaeronea (86 BC) – 86 BC – First Mithridatic War (Mithridatic Wars) Battle of Orchomenus...
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This is a list of wars that began before 1000 AD. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity...
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enjoyed 12 years of relative peace. It stayed neutral during the Second Mithridatic War (83–81 BC). From 80 BC to 78 BC, during the dictatorship of Sulla,...
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Asiatic Vespers (category Mithridatic Wars)
incident served as the casus belli or immediate cause of the First Mithridatic War between the Roman Republic and the Kingdom of Pontus. In the 100s BC...
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Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC) (category Mithridatic Wars)
The siege of Athens and Piraeus was a siege of the First Mithridatic War that took place from autumn of 87 BC to the spring of 86 BC. The battle was fought...
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226. Girdvainyte 2020, p. 216-217. Girdvainyte 2020, p. 213. Appian Mithridatic Wars 6.39 Girdvainyte 2020, p. 227. Girdvainyte 2020, p. 210. Tacitus, Annals...
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Pharnaces II of Pontus (category People of the Mithridatic Wars)
Mithridatic Wars, 120 Cassius Dio, Roman History, 42.45-46 Plutarch, The life of Caesar, 50 Appian, The Civil Wars, 2.91 Appian, The Mithridaric Wars...
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List of battles by casualties (category War casualties)
Casualties of the Iraq War Deadliest single days of World War I List of wars by death toll United States military casualties of war – Military personnel...
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c. 120–63 BC), also known as Mithridates the Great, after whom the Mithridatic Wars, Mithridate (Racine), and several stage works are named Of Parthia...
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Spartacus and the Slave Wars, pp. 95 and 97. Photius' summary of Diodorus, quoted by Brent D. Shaw, Spartacus and the Slave Wars, p. 85. Mommsen, p. 30...
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Nicomedes IV of Bithynia (category People of the Mithridatic Wars)
conquered Bithynia and the Roman provinces of Asia, starting the First Mithridatic War. The East was seen by the Romans as a province providing an abundance...
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