Bosporan Kingdom (Rome)

This article is about the specific polity Bosporan Kingdom (Rome) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Since the reign of king Aspurgus, the Bosporan Kingdom was a client state of Rome.

Establishment

January 7 BC: The Bosporan Kingdom of Aspurgus became a client state of the Roman Empire.

Chronology

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1. Annexation of Pontus and Colchis

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.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

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.