armenia minor
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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Kingdom of Lesser Armenia
Kingdom of Lesser Armenia (Roman Vassal)
Establishment
January 329 BC: In Hellenistic times, Lesser Armenia was an independent kingdom. Presumably it broke away from the Achaemenid Empire during the Macedonian conquest.
Chronology
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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.
1.1.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 64 BC: The Romans left control of the Lesser Armenia to various client kings.
January 64 BC: Establishment of the Kingdom of Lesser Armenia (Roman Vassal).
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.
November 48 BC: By October 48 BC Pharnaces of Pontus captured Sinop and took possession of Paphlagonia and Pontus.
January 47 BC: Pharnace of Pontus moved to the southeast along the Black Sea coast and without difficulty subjugated Colchis and all of Armenia.
January 47 BC: Pharnace II attempted to reconstitute the kingdom of Pontus by force: during the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, he invaded Asia Minor in 48 BC, conquering Colchis, Armenia Minor, Pontus and Cappadocia, defeating a Roman army in Nicopolis.
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.
January 301 BC: Pharnavaz, victorious in a power struggle, became the first king of Iberia (c.302- c.237 BC).
January 236 BC: Iberian kin Saurmag, Colchis regained its independence.
January 189 BC: The defeat of the Seleucid King Antiochos III by the Romans at Magnesia Sipylus in 190 BC redraws the political map of the Middle East. Under the terms of the Peace of Apamea (188 BC), Antiochus III could no longer intervene north of the Taurus, creating a political vacuum which was immediately filled by new independent kingdoms. From 190 BC. BC, the satrap of Armenia Artaxias, with whom the Carthaginian Hannibal took refuge, founded on his advice the city of Artaxates (south of present-day Yerevan) on the banks of the Araxes, and makes it the capital of a kingdom of Armenia of which he proclaims himself king, with the blessing of the Romans.
January 105 BC: Lesser Armenia is occupied by Mithridates of Ponthus.
January 18: The Kingdom of Lesser Armenia was annexed to the Roman Empire.
January 39: A prince named Kotys (IX.) from the Thracian royal dynasty was appointed king of Lesser Armenia.
Disestablishment
January 73: In the year 72, the Romans annexed Lesser Armenia to the 17 AD province of Cappadocia.
