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Name: Rhodes (Rome)

Type: Polity

Start: 163 BC

End: 74 AD

Nation: rhodes

Parent: rome

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Was the polity that ruled over the entire island of Rhodes, in Greece. It emerged in 408 BC when the three city-states of Rhodes united to form one state. Rhodes became a Roman protectorate in 164 BC ans was finally integrated in the Roman state.

Establishment


  • January 163 BC: Rhodes entered into an unequal alliance with Rome, which spelled the end of its role as an independent power.
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    1. Events


  • January 139 BC: In the 2nd century BC Ierapytna (Ierapetra) gained supremacy on eastern Crete.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 75: However, Rome only formally annexed the island to his empire together with Lycia under Vespasian AD 74.
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