Mithridatic Wars

The Mithridatic Wars 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 who initiated the hostilities after annexing the Roman province of Asia into its Pontic Empire (that came to include most of Asia Minor) and committing massacres against the local Roman population known as the Asian Vespers. As Roman troops were sent to recover the territory, they faced an uprising in Greece organized and supported by Mithridates. Mithridates was able to mastermind such general revolts against Rome and played the magistrates of the optimates party off against the magistrates of the populares party in the Roman civil wars. Nevertheless, the first war ended with a Roman victory, confirmed by the

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Caption: enThe Pontic Kingdom
Combatant: Kingdom of Pontusand its extensive momentary allies; Roman Republicdivided by theRoman civil wars
Combatant: enKingdom of Pontus and its extensive momentary allies; enRoman Republic divided by the Roman civil wars
Commander: en*Lucullus *Marcus Aurelius Cotta *Pompey *Lucius Cornelius Sulla *Gaius Flavius Fimbria Executed *Lucius Licinius Lucullus *Nicomedes IV of Bithynia *Manius Aquilius *Lucius Licinius Murena; en*Mithridates VI of Pontus *23px|border Tigranes II of Armenia *Artoces of Iberia *Oroeses of Albania *Archelaus *Neoptolemus *Arcathius *Dorylaeus *Aristion *Marcus Marius
Commander: Arcathius; Archelaus (Pontic army officer); Aristion; Artoces of Iberia; Dorylaeus; Gaius Flavius Fimbria (cavalry prefect); Lucius Cornelius Sulla; Lucius Licinius Lucullus; Lucius Licinius Murena; Lucullus; Manius Aquillius (consul 101 BC); Marcus Aurelius Cotta; Marcus Marius (quaestor 76 BC); Mithridates VI Eupator; Neoptolemus (Pontic army officer); Nicomedes IV of Bithynia; Pompey; Tigranes the Great
Comment: enThe Mithridatic Wars 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 who initiated the hostilities after annexing the Roman province of Asia into its Pontic Empire (that came to include most of Asia Minor) and committing massacres against the local Roman population known as the Asian Vespers. As Roman troops were sent to recover the territory, they faced an uprising in Greece organized and supported by Mithridates. Mithridates was able to mastermind such general revolts against Rome and played the magistrates of the optimates party off against the magistrates of the populares party in the Roman civil wars. Nevertheless, the first war ended with a Roman victory, confirmed by the
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Has abstract: enThe Mithridatic Wars 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 who initiated the hostilities after annexing the Roman province of Asia into its Pontic Empire (that came to include most of Asia Minor) and committing massacres against the local Roman population known as the Asian Vespers. As Roman troops were sent to recover the territory, they faced an uprising in Greece organized and supported by Mithridates. Mithridates was able to mastermind such general revolts against Rome and played the magistrates of the optimates party off against the magistrates of the populares party in the Roman civil wars. Nevertheless, the first war ended with a Roman victory, confirmed by the Treaty of Dardanos signed by Sulla and Mithridates. Greece was restored to Roman rule and Pontus was expected to restore the status quo ante bellum in Asia Minor. As the treaty of Dardanos was barely implemented in Asia Minor, the Roman general Murena (in charge of retaking control of Roman territory in Asia) decided to wage a second war against Pontus. The second war resulted in a Roman defeat and gave momentum to Mithridates, who then forged an alliance with Tigranes the Great, the Armenian King of Kings. Tigranes was the son-in-law of Mithridates and was in control of an Armenian empire that included territories in the Levant. Pontus won the Battle of Chalcedon (74 BC), gave support to Cilician pirates against Roman commerce, and the third war soon began. For the third war, the Romans sent the consul Lucullus to fight against Armenia and Pontus. Lucullus won the Battle of Cabira and the Battle of Tigranocerta, but his progress was nullified after the Battle of Artaxata and the Battle of Zela. Meanwhile, the campaign of Pompey against the Cilician pirates in the Mediterranean was successful and Pompey was named by the Senate to replace Lucullus. Pompey's subsequent campaigns caused the collapse of the Armenian Empire in the Levant (with Roman forces taking control of Syria and Palestine) and the affirmation of Roman power over Anatolia, Pontus and nearly all the eastern Mediterranean. Tigranes surrendered and became a client king of Rome. Hunted, stripped of his possessions, and in a foreign country, Mithridates had a servant kill him. His former kingdom was combined with one of his hereditary enemies, Bithynia, to form the province of Bithynia and Pontus, which would forestall any future pretender to the throne of Pontus.
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Place: enEastern Mediterranean region
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Result: Roman victory
Result: enRoman victory
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Territory: enArmenia becomes an ally of Rome; enJudea becomes a client state of Rome; enPontus and Syria become Roman provinces
Territory: Client state; Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)
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