The Romans have no desire to actually…

188 BCE

The Romans have no desire to actually administer territory in Hellenistic Anatolia but want to see a strong, friendly state in the region as a buffer zone against any possible Seleucid expansion in the future.

Following the peace of Apamea that ended the Syrian-Roman War, the Romans reward Eumenes by giving him control over the Thracian Chersonese (modern Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey) and over most of the former Seleucid possessions in Asia Minor.

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Gallipoli > Gelibolu Canakkale Turkey View →

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Eumenes II View → Pharnaces I View → Prusias I View →

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Roman Republic View → Pontus, Kingdom of View → Bithynia, Kingdom of View → Pergamon (Pergamum), Kingdom of View → Seleucid Empire View →

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Classical antiquity View →

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