Mithridates IV Philopator and Philadelphus (which means "Mithridates the father-love and brother-love"; died ca. 150 BC), sixth
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Mithridates IV Philopator and Philadelphus (which means "Mithridates the father-love and brother-love"; died ca. 150 BC), sixth
List of Kings of Pontus
This page lists Kings of Pontus, an ancient kingdom in Anatolia.... king of Pontus
Pontus
Pontus or Pontos is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day northeastern Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region in Antiquity by the Greeks who colonized the area, and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Pontos Euxeinos , or simply Pontos.... and son of Mithridates III
Mithridates III of Pontus
Mithridates III was the List of Kings of Pontus king of Pontus, probably son of Mithridates II of Pontus. He may have ruled in an uncertain period between 220 BC and 183 BC.... . The date of his accession to the throne is utterly mysterious, since we first hear of him as ruler only in 154 BC, when he is mentioned as sending an auxiliary force to the assistance of Attalus II against Prusias II
Prusias II of Bithynia
Prusias II Cynegus was the king of Bithynia. He succeeded his father Prusias I of Bithynia.Prusias joined with Eumenes of Pergamon in a war against Pharnaces I of Pontus .... , king of Bithynia
Bithynia
Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thrace Bosporus and the Euxine .... -- an important event, since it signaled the start of a policy of friendship of Pontus with Rome and its allies which would continue till Mithridates VI Eupator
Mithridates VI of Pontus
Mithradates VI , from Old Persian Mithradatha, "gift of Mithra"; b. 134, d. 63 BC, also known as Mithradates the Great and Eupator Dionysius, was king of Pontus in northern Anatolia from about 119 to 63 BC.... The only other mention we have of him is as much as twenty-five years before (179 BC): his name is associated with that of his brother Pharnaces
Pharnaces I of Pontus
Pharnaces I , List of Kings of Pontus king of Pontus, was the son of Mithridates III of Pontus, who he succeeded on the throne.. The date of his accession cannot be fixed with certainty; but it is certain, at least, that he was on the throne before 183 BC, in which year he succeeded in reducing the important city of Sinop, Turkey, which ha... in the treaty concluded by the latter with the king of Pergamon
Pergamon
Pergamon or Pergamum was an ancient Ancient Greece city in modern-day Turkey, in Mysia, north-western Anatolia, 16 miles from the Aegean Sea, located on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus , that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic Greece, under the Attalid dynasty, 281–133 BC.... Eumenes II
Eumenes II
Eumenes II of Pergamon was king of Pergamon and a member of the Attalid dynasty. The son of king Attalus I and queen Apollonis, he followed in his father's footsteps and collaborated with the Ancient Rome to oppose first Ancient Macedonians, then Seleucid expansion towards the Aegean, leading to the defeat of Antiochus III the Great at th... , in a manner that would lead one to suppose he was already admitted to some share in the sovereign power.
