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Pontus, Kingdom of
The Kingdom of Pontus or Pontic Empire is a state of Persian origin on the southern coast of the Black Sea.
It is founded by Mithridates I in 291 BCE and lasts until its conquest by the Roman Republic in 63 BCE.
The kingdom grows to its largest extent under Mithridates VI the Great, who conquers Colchis, Cappadocia, Bithynia, the Greek colonies of the Tauric Chersonesos and for a brief time the Roman province of Asia.
After a long struggle with Rome in the Mithridatic Wars, Pontus is defeated, part of it is incorporated into the Roman Republic as the province Bithynia et Pontus and the eastern half survives as a client kingdom.As the greater part of the kingdom lies within the immense region of Cappadocia, which in early ages extended from the borders of Cilicia to the Euxine (Black Sea), the kingdom as a whole is at first called 'Cappadocia by Pontus' or 'Cappadocia by the Euxine', but afterwards simply "Pontus," the name Cappadocia being henceforth restricted to the southern half of the region previously included under that title.
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- Amasya Amasya Turkey Capital
- Alexandria > Al-Iskandariyah Al-Iskandariyah Egypt Location
- Angora > Ankara Ankara Turkey Location
- Antioch > Antakya Hatay Turkey Location
- Arsamosata Diyarbakır Turkey Location
- Artasat > Artaxata Ararat Armenia Location
- Athens > Athínai Attiki Greece Location
- Birecik Sanliurfa Turkey Location
- Bor > Tyana Nigde Turkey Location
- Brundisium > Brindisi Puglia Italy Location
- Bursa Bursa Turkey Location
- Byzantium Istanbul Turkey Location
- Chaeronea Greece Location
- Chalcedon > Kartal Istanbul Turkey Location
- Chersonesos Taurica Krym Ukraine Location
- Cizre Sirnak Turkey Location
- Cyzicus > Erdek Balikesir Turkey Location
- Delos (Dhílos) Island Kikladhes Greece Location
- Dyrrhachium > Durrës Durrës Albania Location
- Epidaurus Greece Location
- Eregli > Herakleia Pontike Zonguldak Turkey Location
- Gallipoli > Gelibolu Canakkale Turkey Location
- Gordium Turkey Location
- Gortyn Iraklion Greece Location
- Hecatompylos Iran Location
- Huesca Aragon Spain Location
- Ierapetra Iraklion Greece Location
- Kayseri Kayseri Turkey Location
- Kerch > Kerc' Krym Ukraine Location
- Khaniá Khania Greece Location
- Knossos Kritis Greece Location
- Kos Dhodhekanisos Greece Location
- Lyctus > Lyttos Iraklion Greece Location
- Marmara Ereglisi > Heraclea > Perinthus Tekirdag Turkey Location
- Mouth of the Kizilirmak (Halys) Reiver Samsun Turkey Location
- Nicomedia > Izmit (Kocaeli) Kocaeli Turkey Location
- Nisibis > Nusaybin Mardin Turkey Location
- Orchomenos Greece Location
- Pergamon > Pergamum > Bergama Izmir Turkey Location
- Phanagoria Krasnodar Krai Russia Location
- Piraeus > Piraiévs Attiki Greece Location
- Poti > Phasis Georgia Location
- Rhodes > Ródhos Dhodhekanisos Greece Location
- Rome > Roma Lazio Italy Location
- Scythian Neapolis Krym Ukraine Location
- Seleucia on the Tigris Babil Iraq Location
- Silvan (Miyafarkin) Diyarbakir Turkey Location
- Sinop > Sinope Sinop Turkey Location
- Sivas > Cabira Sivas Turkey Location
- Tarsus Icel Turkey Location
- Teano Campania Italy Location
- Tigranocerta Turkey Location
- Troy > Ilion (Illium) Çanakkale Turkey Location
- Çankiri > Gangra Çankiri Turkey Location