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Pompey’s client Pharnaces II, son of Mithridates …
Years: 47BCE - 47BCE
Pompey’s client Pharnaces II, son of Mithridates VI Eupator (Mithradates the Great), while the Romans are distracted by the civil war between the Roman triumvirs and Pompey, has decided to seize the opportunity to re-create his father’s kingdom of Pontus and expand his Bithynian domain in Asia Minor through conquest.
With the forces under his disposal and against little opposition, he has made himself the ruler of Colchis and Lesser Armenia.
Deiotarus, the ruler of Galatia, appeals to Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus, Caesar’s lieutenant in Asia, for support, and soon the Roman forces seek battle with Pharnaces II.
They meet at Nicomedia in Anatolia, and Pharnaces II defeats the Roman army and overruns Pontus.
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Years: 47BCE - 47BCE
Locations
People
Groups
Topics
- Classical antiquity
- Roman Republic, Crisis of the
- Roman Civil War, Great, or Caesar's Civil War
- Caesar's War in Pontus
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions