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ensued and dragged on. At the end of their consulships the two commanders stayed on as proconsuls. Mithridates was able to mobilize almost all the rest of Anatolia against them. The two populares were insufficiently skilled to take on Mithridates. Cotta was removed finally by the Senate on a charge
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fled from Italy and assumed command of the Republic's eastern provinces, including Bithynia and Pontus, in 43 BC. When Crispus refused to serve the assassin of his patron, Cassius had him removed from office and forced into retirement. Following the defeat of Brutus and Cassius by the
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of corruption. Lucullus' men mutinied. In the confusion he lost nearly all Anatolia and was out of it. Their patience at an end, the Senate chose the best commander they had. In 66 BC Rome passed the
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The Second Triumvirate expired in 33 BC, ending Antony's legal right to govern the Eastern half of the Republic. With the Triumvirate lapsed, the struggle for dominance between Antony and
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deposed him in 62 AD. Cilicia was then annexed into a directly governed Roman province and Pontus was re-incorporated in Cappadocia, then a directly governed Roman province.
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is Latin "and") comprised a coastal strip of hilly country containing tracts of intensely fertile, arable land, in a mild and moist climate, on the southern shore of the
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Following Arsaces' untimely death the next year in 36 BC, Antony appointed Polemon I as client king of Pontus. Years later, in 16 BC, Polemon I, at the request of
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directly governed by the Republic. The Romans were not actually able to put that annexation into practice until 64 BC, when Pompey
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Between Roman culture and local tradition: Roman provincial coinage of Bithynia and Pontus during the reign of Trajan (98-117 AD)
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allowed the Senate to appoint the governors of these provinces as it had done with all provinces under the Republican system: a
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in 31 BC ensured Octavian's position as undisputed master of the Roman world. In 27 BC, Octavian became "Augustus": the first
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The Roman provinces of Asia Minor under Trajan, including the western Asia Minor Senatorial province of "Bithynia and Pontus".
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as governor of Bithynia and Pontus. Following Caesar's assassination on March 15, 44 BC, by the members of the Roman Senate,
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respectively, appealed to Calvinus for protection and soon the Roman forces sought battle with Pharnaces II. They met at the
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and did not possess any significant military force; the province of Bithynia and Pontus, being located along the southern
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willed his kingdom to the Romans, whom he hoped would defend it against its old enemy, Pontus. Due to the influence of
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in 48 BC, where Pharnaces II soundly defeated the Roman army and overran much of Cappadocia, Pontus, and Bithynia.
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to serve as a buffer between Rome's interests in Asia Minor against future aggression from Eastern kingdoms.
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following her death in 38 AD. Polemon II ruled as a Roman client king over Pontus and Cilicia until the
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intensified. As Octavian built up his support in the West, Antony drew ever closer to Egyptian Queen
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Le Demos et la cité : communautés et assemblées populaires en Asie Mineure à l'époque impériale
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and subsequent death in 48 BC, Deiotarus faced execution by Caesar's forces until the Roman orator
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aggression, bequeathed his kingdom to Rome. The Senate immediately voted to annex the kingdom as a
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with his fellow Populares. It was the peak of his career. They had a falling-out and fought the
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Italy was never constituted as a province, instead retaining a special juridical status until
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before the Senate, the gift was accepted. Contemporary Rome was divided into two parties, the
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became client queen of Pontus, Cilicia, and Colchis. Pythodorida would marry then King
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French, David H (2013). "Fasc. 3.4 Pontus et Bithynia (with northern Galatia)".
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The cities of Bithynia took on many features of Roman cities (e.g. councils of
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pleaded his case and secured his pardon from Caesar. Caesar subsequently named
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Bithynia and the western half of Pontus (including the Greek cities along the
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The wealth of Anatolia was now at Rome's command. It was Pompey's task to
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coast, was an exception although it too lacked any significant garrison.
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of Nicomedes, and an impassioned speech by the deceased king's sister
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The province of Bithynia et Pontus within the Roman Empire, ca. 125 AD
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Following Polemon I's death in 8 BC, he was succeeded by his stepson
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as his chief lieutenant in Asia Minor while Caesar traveled to
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in the early 1st century AD with Pontus as a Roman client state
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as client king of the Bosporan Kingdom and by his second wife
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to his realm of client kingdoms he ruled on behalf of Rome.
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Senatorial provinces, conversely, were centered along the
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Bithynia and Pontus became an important player during the
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States and territories established in the 1st century BC
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became a Roman ally around 149 BC. In 74 BC, during the
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7th-century disestablishments in the Byzantine Empire
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assumed command of the Republic's eastern provinces.
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died and, hoping to secure his kingdom from further
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1st-century BC establishments in the Roman Republic
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