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	Pontus
		Pontus proper extended from the Halys River on the West to the borders of Colchis on the East, its interior boundaries meeting those of Galatia, Cappadocia and Armenia.
		Most of Pontus was for administrative purposes united by the Romans with the province of Bithynia, though the eastern part subsisted as a separate kingdom under Polemon and his house, 36 BC to 63 AD, and the southwestern portion was incorporated with the province of Galatia.
		Pontus shared the vicissitudes of this rather unfortunate government until, in 1204, a branch of the Byzantine imperial family established in Pontus a separate small state with its capital at Trebizond.
	holycall.com /biblemaps/pontus.htm (1304 words)

	Mithridates VI of Pontus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mithridates VI of Pontus, ( 132 BC - 63 BC), called Eupator Dionysius, was the king of Pontus in Asia Minor and one of Rome 's most formidable and successful enemies.
		Mithridates was the son of Mithridates V of Pontus, called Euergetes.
		Two curious legends are told of Mithridates VI of Pontus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mithradates_Eupator (550 words)

	Pontus
		In ancient times, Pontus was the name of the north-eastern province of Asia Minor, a long and narrow strip of land on the southern coast of the Black Sea ( Pontus Euxinus), from which the designation was later transferred to the country.
		Mithradates VI became involved in three wars with the Romans (88-84, 83-81, 74-64), and finally his kingdom, which he had increased by the conquest of Colchis, the Crimea, Paphlagonia, and Cappadocia, was lost to the Romans (63).
		The Pontus mentioned in the Old Testament of the Vulgate in Gen., xiv, 1, 9, is a mistaken translation, according to Symmachus, for the district of Ellasar (Larsa in southern Babylonia).
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/p/pontus.html (856 words)

	Lucius Licinius Lucullus
		Mithradates was forced to retire along the seacoast until he halted before the strong city of Cyzicus, which he besieged.
		Mithradates next appealed to the national spirit of the peoples of the East generally, and endeavored to rouse them to a united effort.
		Meantime Mithradates was again in Pontus, and in a disastrous engagement at Ziela the Roman camp was taken and the army slaughtered to a man. Lucullus was obliged to retreat into Asia Minor, leaving Tigranes and Mithradates masters of Pontus and Cappadocia.
	www.nndb.com /people/018/000097724 (1192 words)

	Ataman Hotel - Mithradates VI Eupator
		When Mithradates VI succeeded his father, Mithradates Euergetes, in 120 BC, he was then only a boy, and for a few years his mother ruled in his place.
		Mithradates began his long career of conquest by dispatching successful expeditions to the Crimea and to Colchis (on the eastern shore of the Black Sea).
		Mithradates then established himself in 64 at Panticapaeum (Kerch) on the Cimmerian Bosporus and was planning an invasion of Italy by way of the Danube when his own troops, led by his son Pharnaces II, revolted against him.
	www.atamanhotel.com /mithradates.html (1065 words)

	Mithridates. Who is Mithridates? What is Mithridates? Where is Mithridates? Definition of Mithridates. Meaning of ...
		Mithradates - less correctly Mithridates - a Persian name derived from Mithras, the sun-god, and the Indo-European root da "to give," i.e.
		The earliest are Mithradates, the eunuch who helped Artabanus to assassinate Xerxes I and the Mithradates who fought first with Cyrus the Younger and after his death with Artaxerxes against the Greeks, and is the ancestor of the kings of Pontus.
		After legends about Mithridates VI of Pontus, several books containing samples of various languages bore the title Mithridates and the practice of having underdoses of poison aiming to gain immunity is known as mithridatism.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Mithridates (232 words)

	Pontus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pontus was an offshoot of the Seleucid Empire and incorporated the region of Paphlagonia in central Anatolia.
		But in the Greco-Persian kingdom of Pontus, king Mithradates VI (d63 BCE) not only did not appreciate the benefits of Roman annexation or protectorship, but he also launched a war of conquest that took him as far as Greece (88), massacring Romans and Italians that crossed his path, military and civilian alike.
		The region of Pontus includes the port of Trebizond (Trabzond), which was later the capital of an offshoot of the Byzantine Empire (13th-15th centuries).
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /p/pontus.html (243 words)

	Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. - Numismatic Articles
		Mithradates was a man of exceptional physical strength and force of character whose exploits soon earned him an extraordinary reputation.
		Mithradates paid 2000 talents, 70 war ships and evacuated conquered territories, in return, he was recognized King of Pontus and friend of Rome, thus ending the first Mithradatic War.
		Mithradates was their king and he ordered the coinage for the war though it didn't circulate outside of Odessa.
	www.harlanjberk.com /departments/articles/details.asp?inventorynumber=30&linenum=5 (1087 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Pontus
		The son of Pontus (a personification of the sea) and Gaea, he was noted for his gift of prophecy and his ability to change his shape.
		Mario BOTTA, the swiss architect of the Jean TINGUELY museum with the museum Director Pontus HULTEN (SWE), formerly director of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, inspecting bef (PAR99277)
		Mario BOTTA, the swiss architect of the Jean TINGUELY museum with the museum Director Pontus HULTEN (SWE), formerly director of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, inspecting bef (PAR96167)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Pontus&StartAt=11 (699 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pontus
		In ancient times, Pontus was the name of the north-eastern province of Asia Minor, a long and narrow strip of land on the southern coast of the Black Sea (Pontus Euxinus), from which the designation was later transferred to the country.
		Mithradates VI became involved in three wars with the Romans (88-84, 83-81, 74-64), and finally his kingdom, which he had increased by the conquest of Colchis, the Crimea, Paphlagonia, and Cappadocia, was lost to the Romans (63).
		The Pontus mentioned in the Old Testament of the Vulgate in Gen., xiv, 1, 9, is a mistaken translation, according to Symmachus, for the district of Ellasar (Larsa in southern Babylonia).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12234c.htm (863 words)

	LUCULLUS - Online Information article about LUCULLUS
		He attracted Sulla's notice in the Social War (9o) and in 88, when Sulla was appointed to the command of the war against Mithradates, accompanied him as quaestor to Greece and Asia Minor.
		Al-though the forces of Mithradates were far superior in numbers, his troops were no match for the Roman legionaries.
		Thus Pontus, with the exception of some of the maritime cities, such as Sinope, Heraclea and Amisus, became Roman territory.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LOB_LUP/LUCULLUS.html (997 words)

	Biographies: Mithradates VI :: 0 A.D. :: Wildfire Games
		Mithradates was born in 132 B.C. to Mithradates V Euergetes and an unknown woman.
		Mithradates VI showed early in his reign what kind of king he would be through displays of physical strength and force of character, this would in turn gain him the fame needed to fuel his Alexandrian ambitions.
		In conclusion Mithradates VI Eupator Dionysius was undoubtedly Rome’s greatest enemy in Asia Minor; it is interesting to note that in the field of medicine the term for a cure all antidote is “Mithradate”.
	wildfiregames.com /0ad/page.php?p=6888 (1195 words)

	pontus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pontus In Greek mythology, Pontus ("sea") was an ancient sea-god, son of Gaia and Aether.
		Laodice III Princess of Pontus Laodice III Princess of Pontus was the wife of Antiochus III and is...
		Gaia With Elara Tityas With Oceanus Creusa Spercheus With Pontus Ceto Eurybia Phorcys Nereus Thaumas With Poseidon Antaeus...
	www.wikisearch.net /pontus (551 words)

	Mithradates VI. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Murena was repelled by Mithradates and was superseded by Aulus Gabinius, who made peace with the king of Pontus.
		Lucullus was sent against Mithradates, who was finally forced to flee to Armenia.
		Pompey soon drove Mithradates eastward, and the king fled to the Crimea, the last of his provinces.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mi/Mithrada.html (272 words)

	Colchis at AllExperts
		Mithradates VI quelled an uprising in the region in 83 BC and gave Colchis to his son Mithradates Chrestus, who was soon executed being suspected in having plotted against his father.
		On the defeat of Mithradates in 65 BC, Colchis was occupied by Pompey, who captured one of the local chiefs (sceptuchus) Olthaces, and installed Aristarchus as a dynast (65-47 BC).
		Her son and successor Polemon II was induced by Emperor Nero to abdicate the throne, and both Pontus and Colchis were incorporated in the Province of Galatia (63) and later in Cappadocia (81).
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/co/colchis.htm (1885 words)

	Parthia: History
		By the time of Mithradates I's death, Parthia had expanded to include Mesopotamia, the richest and most populous of the regions in the Parthian empire, and the most Hellenized, as well as Elymais and Persis, thus completing their control of the overland trade routes between east and west.
		Upon Mithradates II's death in 88 BC, the empire fell into confusion with Gotarzes I, already in open revolt against Mithradates, gaining control of the western parts of the empire, and Orodes I in control of the east.
		The anarchy which followed Mithradates' death was finally ended in 77 BC by Sinatruces, brother of Mithradates II, who returned from exile among the Scythians at the age of eighty.
	americanhistory.si.edu /collections/numismatics/parthia/frames/phisfm.htm (2183 words)

	G191
		Mithradates was descended from a line of Persian rulers called Mithradates, who claimed descent from the great king Darius I of Persia.
		Mithradates resorted to intimidation against his Greek allies in an attempt to keep them on his side in the war, including fomenting revolution and freeing their slaves.
		Mithradates retreated and in 64 BC established himself at Pantikapaion (Kerch) on the Cimmerian Bosporus, where he had previously installed his son, Pharnaces, as king.
	www.aoti76.dsl.pipex.com /coins/g5/g191.htm (502 words)

	IRANIAN HISTORY: POST-ACHAEMENID: PONTUS - (CAIS) ©
		Pontus, a Greek word meaning "sea," generally taken in the ancient world to refer to the Black Sea, Pontos Euxeinos, or Axeinos (Strabo 1.2.10 C21).
		Strabo (12.1.4 C534) says that both Pontus and its neighbor to the south, Cappadocia, developed from the two Cappadocian satrapies of the Persian empire, and that it was the Macedonians—presumably he means the Seleucids—who had named one Pontus and the other Cappadocia.
		Geographically, Pontus divided into two distinct parts—a narrow, coastal strip,and a mountainous, inland region interspersed with fertile river valleys and separated from the sea by the Pontic Alps, which run parallel and close to the coast and which limited routes of communications between the two zones.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/Post-Achaemenid/pontus.htm (1092 words)

	Biographies: Mithradates VI :: 0 A.D. :: Wildfire Games
		Mithradates was born in 132 B.C. to Mithradates V Euergetes and an unknown woman.
		Mithradates VI showed early in his reign what kind of king he would be through displays of physical strength and force of character, this would in turn gain him the fame needed to fuel his Alexandrian ambitions.
		Mithradates was now very upset and angry, he had lost that which he had worked so hard to gain, he wanted revenge on the Romans, and all he needed was a chance.
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	Pontus - All About Turkey
		Pontus was an ancient country, North-east of Asia Minor (now Turkey), on the Black Sea coast.
		B.C., Pontus was taken over by a Persian family, profiting by the breakup of the empire of Alexander the Great, and by 281 B.C. the ruler (Mithradates II) called himself king.
		The greatest Pontic ruler was Mithradates VI, who conquered Asia Minor, gained control of the Crimea, and threatened Rome in Greece.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /pontus.htm (219 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Mithradates
		Shortly after Cinna's first election, Sulla left Rome to fight against Mithradates VI of Pontus, having received from Cinna and Cinna's colleague Gnaeus Octavius a promise to maintain...
		BC, Pontus was taken over by a Persian family, profiting by the breakup of the empire of...
		By an alliance with his father-in-law, Mithradates VI of Pontus, he was able to extend his conquests across Asia Minor.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Mithradates (643 words)

	Who was Lucellus? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lucullus was appointed governor of Cilicia and later of Asia and commanded Roman forces in the war against Mithradates.
		Lucullus' able financial administration alleviated the crisis caused by the war in the province of Asia and earned him the hostility of those Roman businessmen whose profits were cut by his reforms on behalf of the provincials.
		Mithradates recovered much of his lost territory, and Lucullus' enemies carried legislation (Lex Manilia) requiring him to hand over his command to Gnaeus Pompey.
	www95.pair.com /digunn/lucellan/lucellus.html (249 words)

	Mithradates VI Eupator -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Mithradates (often misspelled Mithridates and meaning “gift of [the god] Mithra”) was a common name among Anatolian rulers of the age.
		Frederick VI (1768–1839), king of Denmark and Norway; succeeded 1808 (previously regent); joined Armed Neutrality of North (1800) and was punished (1801) by destruction of fleet by English (read Campbell's...
		The grandson of Philip III and the nephew of Philip IV, Philip VI is important because his accession to the throne had serious consequences for both France and England.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=4909 (595 words)

	Pontos, Kings, Mithradates VI - Ancient Greek Coinage - WildWinds.com
		DeCallatay p011-D21-R2 Kingdom of Pontos, Mithradates VI AR Tetradrachm.
		DeCallatay p018-D26-R5 Kingdom of Pontos, Mithradates VI AR Tetradrachm.
		DeCallatay p021-D54-R2 Kingdom of Pontos, Mithradates VI AR Tetradrachm.
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/greece/pontos/kings/mithradates_VI/i.html (1517 words)

	Mithradates VI and Rome
		Mithradates VI Mithradates VI Eupator, king of Pontus, was by ancestry a Persian noble.
		Mithradates VI Eupator Dionysus escaped from his mother's tutelage and went into hiding, returning after a number of years to take over Sinope (the capital).
		In brief, what Mithradates wanted was to be able to grow his kingdom, in the same way that modern corporations like to grow their profits.
	www.uvm.edu /~bsaylor/rome/mithridates.html (1062 words)

	pontus - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
		Mithradates I, B.C. 302-266, founder of the Kingdom of Pontus.
		Polemo II, son of Antonia Tryphaena, king of Pontus, A.D. and king of Bosporus till A.D. JR Drachms, with head of Polemo H and heads of Claudius, Agrippina 0), Nero, Britannicus; also with Tryphaena (q.
		The Bosporan coinage of Mithradates VI Eupator, king of Pontus, is described under his name, supra, p.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/view.asp?key=pontus (1948 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mithridates VI of Pontus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pontus was a name applied in ancient times to extensive tracts of country in the northeast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) bordering on the Euxine (Black Sea), which was often called simply Pontos (the Main), by the Greeks.
		Anatolia (Greek: ανατολη anatole, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey.
		The Second Mithridatic War was fought between the old King Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman consul Lucius Licinius Lucullus (consul in 74 BC).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mithridates-VI-of-Pontus (1299 words)

	MITHRADATES VI - Online Information article about MITHRADATES VI
		The Romans restored the legitimate kings, and, while apparently acquiescing, Mithradates made preparations for war.
		During what is called the Second Mithradatic War, Murena invaded Pontus without any good reason in 83, but was defeated in 82.
		His courage, his bodily strength and size, his skill in the use of weapons, in riding, and in the chase, his speed of foot, his capacity for eating and drinking, his penetrating intellect and his mastery of 22 languages are celebrated to a degree which is almost incredible.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MIC_MOL/MITHRADATES_VI.html (647 words)

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