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    The Queen of Bithynia (Latin: Bithynica regina) was a mock ancient epithet of Julius Caesar referencing his alleged homosexual relationship with King...
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    Φιλοπάτωρ) was the king of Bithynia from c. 94 BC to 74 BC. He was the first son and successor of Nicomedes III of Bithynia. Memnon of Heraclea wrote that...
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  • (244BCE-204BCE) (lover of Agathocles of Egypt) Nicomedes IV of Bithynia (theorized lover of Julius Caesar, who was nicknamed as Queen of Bithynia among Roman politicians)...
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  • Orsabaris (category Queens consort of Bithynia)
    Princess of the Kingdom of Pontus. She was a Queen of Bithynia by marriage to Socrates Chrestus and later married to Lycomedes of Comana. Orsabaris was of Greek...
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    Bithynia and Pontus (Latin: Provincia Bithynia et Pontus, Ancient Greek Ancient Greek: Επαρχία Βιθυνίας και Πόντου, romanized: Eparkhía Bithynías kai...
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    affair with Nicomedes IV of Bithynia early in his career. The stories were repeated, referring to Caesar as the "Queen of Bithynia", by some Roman politicians...
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    princess from the Kingdom of Pontus and a queen of the Kingdom of Cappadocia by marriage to Ariarathes VI, and queen of Bithynia by marriage to Nicomedes...
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  • Antipatrid dynasty and the Antigonid dynasty. Through marriage, she became Queen of Bithynia. Nysa bore Nicomedes III a daughter also named Nysa. Not much is known...
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    was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its...
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  • Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (category 1st-century BC Roman governors of Syria)
    referring to his co-consul as the "Queen of Bithynia," an allusion to Caesar's alleged love affair with the King of Bithynia. He also alleged that Caesar had...
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  • century BC) was queen consort of Bithynia. She was married to king Nicomedes IV of Bithynia. She was a daughter of Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia. She married...
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  • Εὐεργέτης) was the king of Bithynia, from c. 127 BC to c. 94 BC. He was the son and successor of Nicomedes II of Bithynia. Memnon of Heraclea wrote that Nicomedes...
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    Kingdom of Pontus reached its largest extent under Mithridates VI the Great, who conquered Colchis, Cappadocia, Bithynia, the Greek colonies of the Tauric...
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  • 255 BC – 254 BC) was the second wife of Nicomedes I, king of Bithynia. After his death, she was a regent of Bithynia. Nicomedes removed his sons by his...
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    third-century queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria. Many legends surround her ancestry; she was probably not a commoner and she married the ruler of the city...
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  • Battle of Tanagra (457 BC) Nicomedes I of Bithynia – king of Bithynia Nicomedes II of Bithynia – king of Bithynia Nicomedes III of Bithynia – king of Bithynia...
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    Asiatic Vespers (category Massacres of ethnic groups)
    Mithridates' subjugation of Armenia and other territories along the Black Sea, Roman attention fell on Pontus. With Nicomedes III of Bithynia, Mithridates saw...
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    western part of Pontus, merged it with the former Kingdom of Bithynia and formed the Roman province of Bithynia and Pontus. The eastern part of Pontus remained...
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    is modern) was a Ptolemaic princess, Queen of Numidia (briefly in 25 BC) and Mauretania (25 BC – 5 BC) and Queen of Cyrenaica (34 BC – 30 BC). She was an...
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    featured a resplendent Bithynian court. At the time of the medieval Kingdom of Sicily, however, Bithynia was long extinct and its territories were controlled...
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    Kingdom of Pontus and many Greek cities rebelling against Roman rule were led by Mithridates VI of Pontus against Rome and the allied Kingdom of Bithynia. The...
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    independence of Bithynia. His son, Zipoetes I of Bithynia maintained this autonomy against Lysimachus and Seleucus I, and assumed the title of king (basileus)...
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    Great. She was born in the lower classes traditionally in the city of Drepanon, Bithynia, in Asia Minor, which was renamed Helenopolis in her honor, although...
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    Cappadocia (Roman province) (category Provinces of the Roman Empire)
    in 95 BC king Nicomedes III of Bithynia sent an embassy to Rome, claiming dominion over the kingdom. Mithridates VI of Pontus likewise sent an embassy...
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  • Martyrs of Nicomedia (304–305) Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (320) Martyrs of Persia under Shapur II (4th century) Martyrs of Córdoba (850–859) Martyrs of Otranto...
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    friend of Rome, c. 67 BC – AD 8), was a Roman client queen of the Bosporan Kingdom during the Late Roman Republic and part of the reign of Augustus...
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  • following an alliance opposing him between Antigonus and Nicomedes I of Bithynia. Phila's wedding was used by Antigonus to emphasise that his rule was...
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  • fourth child of Greek Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and her third with Roman Triumvir Mark Antony. Ptolemy Philadelphus was of Greek and Roman...
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  • people of Atlantis. Bebryces, a tribe of people who lived in Bithynia Chalybes, a Georgian tribe of Pontus and Cappadocia in northern Anatolia. Curetes, legendary...
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  • crucifies the pirates in Pergamon. Start of Golden Age of Latin Literature. Nicomedes IV, last king of Bithynia bequeaths his kingdom to the Roman Senate...
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