bosporan kingdom
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Bosporan Kingdom
Bosporan Kingdom (Rome)
Establishment
January 437 BC: Kytaia is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.
January 437 BC: Tyritake is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.
January 437 BC: Phanagoria is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.
January 437 BC: According to Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (XII. 31) the region was governed between 480 and 438 BC by a line of kings called the Archaeanactidae, probably a ruling family, usurped by a tyrant called Spartocus (438-431 BC), who was a Thracian.
January 437 BC: Hermonassa is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.
January 437 BC: Kepoi is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.
January 437 BC: Kimmerikon is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.
January 437 BC: Myrmekeion is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.
January 437 BC: Pantikapaion is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.
Chronology
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Conquests by Spartokos I, ruler of Bosporan Kingdom.
Conquests by Prytanis, ruler of Bosporan Kingdom.
January 309 BC: Conquests of Paerisades I (349 - 310 BC).
January 309 BC: Gorgippia is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.
January 309 BC: Labrys is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.
January 309 BC: Theodosia is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.
Were three conflicts fought by Rome against the Kingdom of Pontus and its allies between 88 BC and 63 BC. They are named after Mithridates VI, the King of Pontus during the course of the wars.
3.1.Third Mithridatic War
Was the last and longest of the three Mithridatic Wars, fought between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman Republic. The conflict ended in defeat for Mithridates, ending the Pontic Kingdom, ending the Seleucid Empire (by then a rump state), and also resulting in the Kingdom of Armenia becoming an allied client state of Rome.
January 62 BC: Because Mithridates' younger son, Pharnaces II, had revolted against his father, he was given the Bosporan Kingdom by Rome.
Was a military campaign waged by Julius Caesar (at the same time of his war against Pompeius) that lead to the Roman submission of the Kingdom of Pontus.
August 48 BC: After the death of Mithridates, Pompey made his son Pharnaces king of the Bosporus. Apparently, soon after receiving news of the defeat of Pompey (by Ceasar), Pharnaces began active operations. The first target was Phanagoria.
August 47 BC: Caesar decisively defeated Pharnaces of Pontus at the Battle of Zela. Pharnaces was killed and Caesar conquered Pontus. In addition, the territories occupied by Pharnaces were freed.
After the death of vassal king Polemon II, Pontus and Colchis were annexed to Rome.
January 64: The Bosporan Kingdom was incorporated as part of the Roman province of Moesia Inferior from 63 to 68.
January 399 BC: Nymphaion was annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom by the end of the century.
January 106 BC: The Bosporan Kingdom, ruled by King Pairisades V, surrendered their independence to Mithridates VI of Pontus in -107. Mithridates promised protection against the Scythians in exchange for their allegiance.
January 46 BC: Conquest of Pharnaces II (63 - 47 BC).
January 7 BC: The Bosporan Kingdom of Aspurgus became a client state of the Roman Empire.
January 37: Karkinitis is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.
January 38: Conquest of Aspurgus (8 BC - 37 AD).
January 69: In 68, the new Roman emperor Galba restored the Bosporan Kingdom to Rhescuporis I, the son of Cotys I.
January 70: Conquest of Cotys I (45 - 69).
January 194: At the end of the 2nd century AD, King Sauromates II critically defeated the Scythians and included the Crimea into his Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, a Roman client state.
Disestablishment
January 371: The last Bosporan sovereign remembered is a certain Rescuporides in 341, after which the kingdom fell into the hands of the Huns, after they had defeated the nearby Sarmatian populations.
Selected Sources
Appian, XII - The Mithridatic Wars, 110, 114
Bosporan Kingdom growth map-fr. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 7 Aptril 2024 on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bosporan_Kingdom_growth_map-fr.svg
