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	Mithridatic Wars - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Mithridatic Wars, series of wars against the Romans instigated by Mithridates VI Eupator, king of Pontus between 88 and 66 bc.
		There were three Mithridatic Wars between Rome and Pontus in the first century BC.
		The Third Mithridatic War (75 - 65 BC) was one of three Mithridatic Wars fought between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman Republic.
	encarta.msn.com /Mithridatic_Wars.html (217 words)

	Mithridatic Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There were three Mithridatic Wars between Rome and Pontus in the first century BC.
		The war ended with a Roman victory, and the Treaty of Dardanos in 85 BC.
		War ended with defeat and subsequent suicide of Mithridates VI in 63 BC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mithridatic_Wars (146 words)

	Second Mithridatic War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Second Mithridatic War (83-82 BC) was one of three Mithridatic Wars fought between Pontus and the Roman Republic.
		The second Mithridatic war was fought between King Mithridates VI of Pontus and general Lucius Licinius Murena.
		At the end of the First Mithridatic War, Sulla had left Mithridates in control of his kingdom of Pontus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Mithridatic_War (171 words)

	Crete Accommodation Studio Apartment in Crete Greece
		In Ancient Roman times, Crete was involved in the Mithridatic Wars as Rome suspected them of backing Mithridates VI of Pontus.
		Contemporary estimates vary, but on the eve of the Greek War of Independence as much as 45% of the population of the island may have been Muslim.
		Later on, after Minos's son was killed by the Athenians in a war, Minos demanded that they gave Minotaur a sacrifice of young people as a tribute.
	announces.net /accommodation/poseidon-georgioupoli (702 words)

	Roman Army Encyclopedia Article @ AlienArtifacts.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Before the First Punic War in 264 BC there was no Roman navy to speak of as all previous Roman war had been fought in Italy.
		The first few naval battles of the First Punic War were disasters for Rome, and it was not until the invention of the Corvus, a grappling engine which made it easier for Romans to board the Carthaginian vessels, that Rome was able to win the war.
		The first Roman wars were wars of expansion and defence, aimed at protecting Rome itself from neighbouring cities and nations by defeating them in battle.
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Roman_army (3539 words)

	Eretria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At the end of the 8th century, however, Eretria and Chalcis fought a prolonged war known (mainly from the account in Thucydides) as the Lelantine War.
		Little is known of the details of this war, but it is clear that Eretria was defeated, and lost her lands in Boeotia and her Aegean dependencies.
		During the Peloponnesian War Eretria was an Athenian ally against her Dorian rivals Sparta and Corinth.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/eretria (610 words)

	Delos
		In addition, the island never fully recovered from devastating attacks suffered during the Mithridatic wars (88 BCE) and in a massive pirate raid (69 BCE).
		While the remains of the synagogue measure 15.5 m long x 28.15 m wide, the building was originally considerably larger, as much of the structure has been lost to the intruding sea.
		The main hall was divided into two sections, with the northern hall featuring a throne (the so-called "Seat of Moses") that was perhaps reserved for the synagogue ruler.
	www.pohick.org /sts/delos.html (1367 words)

	Mithridates VI of Pontus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the First Mithridatic War fought between 88 BC and 84 BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla forced Mithridates out of Greece proper, but then had to return to Italy to answer the threat posed by Marius, and thus Mithridates was defeated but not beaten.
		First Lucullus, and then Pompey the Great were sent against Mithridates, who was at last defeated by Pompey in the Third Mithridatic War of 75 BC to 65 BC.
		The second legend is that Mithridates sought to harden himself against poisoning by taking increasing sub-lethal doses of the poisons he knew of until he was able to tolerate lethal doses.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mithradates_VI_of_Pontus (699 words)

	Eutropius: Abridgement of Roman History, Book 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At last, in the eighth year of the war, he was put to death by his own soldiers, and an end made of the war by Cnaeus Pompey, at that time but a young man, and Quintus Metellus Pius; and nearly the whole of Spain was brought under the dominion of the Roman people.
		Soon after, the war against Mithridates and Tigranes was entrusted to him; in the conduct of which, he overcame Mithridates in Armenia Minor in a battle by night, and plundered his camp, killing at the same time forty thousand of his troops, while he lost only twenty of his own men, and two centurions.
		Soon after followed the Civil war, a war truly execrable and deplorable, in which, besides the havoc that occurred in the several battles, the fortune of the Roman people was changed.
	www.forumromanum.org /literature/eutropius/trans6.html (2743 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The lowest-numbered War of the series in play then becomes Inactive; all other Wars and Leaders in the series are reshuffled into the deck.
		Every War in the series gains a permanent +1 to Land and Naval Strength (not Fleet Support Strength) when the Initial Tribute is played and also during each Revenue Phase the Peace Treaty is in effect.
		Delayed Matching Wars (from AH) 7.3321 TIME DELAY: Whenever a War of Revolt card is drawn from the deck that would match a face-up War or Revolt card already located in the Forum, the drawn card is placed face-down in an Inactive War slot for the remainder of the current turn.
	revolution.3-cities.com /~twvertz/rome/vvv/optionalrules.htm (3102 words)

	Eutropius, Abridgment of Roman History (Historiae Romanae Breviarium)
		Wars having arisen in consequence of this outrage in capturing the females, he conquered the Caeninenses, the Antemnates, the Crustumini, the Sabines, the Fidenates, and the Vejentes; all whose towns lay around the city.
		A war in the meantime was kindled in Asia by 482 Aristonicus, the son of Eumenes by a concubine: this Eumenes was the brother of Attalus.
		In the meantime a war of a serious nature was excited in Sicily by Sextus Pompey, the son of Cnaeus Pompey the Great, those that survived of the party of Brutus and Cassius flocking 499 to join him from all parts.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /fathers/eutropius_breviarium_2_text.htm (18484 words)

	Bithynia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bevan, for instance, says they were "Thracian immigrants from the opposite shore, and shared the same characteristics as their European cousins, savage hardihood, wild abandonment to the frenzy of religion and war.
		The last was Bithynia’s main contender for power in the region, and the two states were often at war.
		Five years later, Bithynia was aligned With Antiochus III in his war against Rome and Pergamon.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /bithynia.htm (1428 words)

	The Foreign Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		THE Greeks think that the Thracians who marched to the Trojan war with Rhesus, who was killed by Diomedes in the night-time in the manner described in Homer's poems,
		Prusias, surnamed the Hunter, was the one to whom Perseus, king of Macedonia, gave his sister in marriage.
		He selected three men, one of whom had once been struck on the head with a stone, from which he was badly scarred; another was a diseased cripple, and the third was considered almost a fool; wherefore Cato made the contemptuous remark concerning this embassy, that it had no understanding, no feet and no head.
	www.chlt.org /sandbox/perseus/appian.fw_eng.xml/page.159.a.php (1286 words)

	The Foreign Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This was probably the war waged by the Emperor Trajan to suppress the Jewish insurrection in that country A.D. 117, the year of Trajan's death.
		These are especially shown in his treatment of the Numantine war, the third Punic war and the Mithridatic wars, in all of which the blame of their inception is put upon the Romans.
		Combes-Dounous, the French translator of the Civil Wars (1808), alludes to the translation of Davies in his preface thus: "While I was engaged in translating this historian, I had occasion to speak of him in the presence of an English lady quite well versed in ancient literature.
	daedalus.ddns.umkc.edu /sandbox/perseus/appian.fw_eng.xml/page.88.a.php (5856 words)

	Wikinfo \| Mithridatic Wars
		Second Mithridatic War: 83 BC - 81 BC
		Third Mithridatic War: 75 BC - 65 BC
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	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Mithridatic_Wars (126 words)

	Roman civiliation, Roman history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		(the Latin word for ally is "socius") by modern historians and the Marsic wars by Roman historians (the Marsi in central Italy, along with the Samnites in the south,were among the leaders of the revolt).
		In anticipation of a threatened war with Mithridites, the king of Pontus, the Senate awarded the governship of Greece to Sulla (to begin after his consulship).
		The final battle of the war was fought outside the Colline Gate of the city of Rome itself in November of 82.
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/1st.cen.htm (4472 words)

	Appian - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		8 Punic wars (http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/appian/appian_punic_00.html) with Numidian war (http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/appian/appian_numidia.html) (fragments)
		His account of the Mithridatic wars is a case in point.
		The next four books continued this story: the war against the Egyptian queen Cleopatra was, of course, a civil war between the two leaders of the faction of Julius Caesar, Octavian and Marc Antony.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Appian (1294 words)

	Encyclopedia: Heraclea Pontica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The prosperity of the city, rudely shaken by the Galatians and the Bithynians, was utterly destroyed in the Mithridatic wars.
		The later town was best known for its lignite coal-mines, from which Constantinople received a good part of its supply.
		We hear that Heraclea surrendered under compulsion to Hannibal in 212 BC and that in the Social War the public records were destroyed by fire.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Heraclea-Pontica (492 words)

	Appian's Roman History: The Mithridatic Wars
		The Romans, torn by revolts in Italy and threatened with famine by pirates on the sea, considered it inopportune to undertake another war of this magnitude until their present troubles were ended.
		Having lost both livelihood and country by reason of the war and fallen into extreme destitution, they harvested the sea instead of the land, at first with pinnaces and hemiolii, then with two-bank and three-bank ships, sailing in squadrons under pirate chiefs, who were like generals of an army.
		Thus both the greatness and the unexampled nature of this war, which was subject to no laws and had nothing tangible or visible about it, caused perplexity and fear on all sides.
	www.livius.org /ap-ark/appian/appian_mithridatic_19.html (1012 words)

	LacusCurtius • Cassius Dio's Roman History
		War with Tarentum and Pyrrhus, king of Epirus: in a first stage, they are successful.
		Civil war: Marius and Cinna and the proscriptions.
		Wars against the Parthians, in which Antony is defeated.
	penelope.uchicago.edu /Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio (1650 words)

	Republic of Rome Optional Scenarios
		Notes: Scipio actually was the victor against the Numantine War; The Spanish Revolt was ended when Viriathus was murdered.
		The Spanish Wars (including Sertorian Revolt) should not match; they should not be comparable to the Mithridatic Wars in strength.
		Viriathus could be made to match the Numantine War but then again you'd have a D/S percentage of over 36% and allowing Scipio to void this war's D/S numbers as well would make Scipio too strong.
	junior.apk.net /~jerkich/ruScenarios.html (595 words)

	SCC Forums -> Brief History of Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		War of the Roses 1455 -1485 (House of York Vs. House of Lancaster [Red]).
		Seems like a couple of wars in Asia are missing, but those wars are not really documented well.
		you left out two very important wars for the world, far more significant than localized wars in asia, no matter their comparitive sizes - cortes' conquering of the aztecs (1519) and pizzaro's conquering of the incas (1531-1535), opening the new world.
	www.stratcommandcenter.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=4952&st=0& (1941 words)

	The Foreign Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sulla, willing perhaps that those who had offended him should be maltreated, or because he was in haste to put down the hostile faction in Rome, left them and sailed for Greece, and thence passed on to Italy with the greater part of his army.
		Mithridates, after his return to Pontus, went to war with the Colchians and the tribes around the Cimmerian Bosporus who had revolted from him.
		Sulla thought that it was not right to make war against Mithridates when he had not violated the treaty.
	daedalus.ddns.umkc.edu /sandbox/perseus/appian.fw_eng.xml/page.79.a.php (2059 words)

	The Foreign Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Civil Wars, V. And finally he showed that their goodness, or rather their badness, was about equal, and that their age and origin were about the same, i.e.
		In respect of using the things found by him Nauck lays down the rule that whatever I adopt I shall adopt at my own peril, because they occurred to him while he was reading, since it has not been his fortune to have been deeply acquainted with the editor's author.
		containing the civil and foreign wars and the wars in Spain, published by the sons of Aldus, 1545.
	www.chlt.org /sandbox/perseus/appian.fw_eng.xml/page.1.a.php?size=240x320 (5098 words)

	Mithridatic Wars - MSN Encarta
		Pontus and its kings, see Mithridates VI Eupator; Pontus
		Rome and its allies during the Mithridatic Wars, see Byzantium; Ancient Rome
		military leaders of the Mithridatic Wars, see Lucius Licinius Lucullus; Pompey the Great; Lucius Cornelius Sulla
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761585946/Mithridatic_Wars.html (74 words)

	J. Harmatta - 1.6
		Thus we cannot wonder at this territory having become a sort of sideshow theatre of war during the Ist Mithridatic War.
		[84] These antecedents of this Sarmato-Bastarnian-Scythian expansion during the Ist Mithridatic War, are all the more interesting as they show Mithridates' plans to have been very similar to Philip's designs of attacking Italy on land from the Balkans.
		That this territory had strategic importance is clearly shown by the fact that the Bastarnae much later, after Boirebistas' death, again penetrating into this South-Danubian territory and setting foot on the land of the Dentheletians, south of what is to-day Sofia, marched across Triballian territory.
	www.kroraina.com /sarm/jh/jh1_6.html (2260 words)

	The Galatian Tribes
		Perhaps the only thing that the Galatians liked more than the opportunity to display their valor in war was the shine of plundered gold.
		The constant and paralyzing fear of Celtic marauders was finally put to an end when the army of Antiochos I and some Indian war elephants forced the majority of the tribes to settle in an area east of the Halys River which was henceforth known as Galatia.
		Galatia remained loyal to the Romans during the Mithridatic Wars (88-69 BC) and was at last incorporated as a province in 25 BC.
	www.seleukids.org /Galatians.htm (986 words)

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