The northeast portion of Anatolia, alongside the Black Sea and extending into the interior. For a record of this region in mediaeval times, see Trabizond, below.

• KASHKA (Gasgans) The Kashka were a warlike, nomadic people inhabiting northern Anatolia, particularly the region that later became known as Pontus. While not a Sea People per se, the Kashka invaded the Hittite empire in conjunction with Sea People raids on the southern tier of Hittite territory, and together with the early Phrygians smashed the Hittite state around 1200 BCE.
• Pihhuniya..........................................fl. mid 1300's BCE
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• To Persia.......................................c. 550-333
  • ARTABAZID-MITHRIDATID Also in Kios, which see.
  • Artabazus..................................c. 490-c. 470
  • Son of Artabazus...........................c. 470-c. 440
  • Ariobarzanes I.............................c. 440-c. 410
  • Mithridates I..............................c. 410-363
  • Ariobarzanes II...............................363-337
• Mithridates II Ktistus.............................337-301
• To Antigonus One-Eye (King in Asia Minor 305)......316-301
• Kingdom of Pontus
• Mithridates I......................................301-266/5
• Ariobarzanes (III)...............................266/5-c. 250
• Mithridates II..................................c. 250-c. 220
• Mithridates III.................................c. 220-c. 185
• Pharnaces I.....................................c. 185-c. 170
• Mithridates IV Philopator Philadelphus..........c. 170-c. 150
• Mithridates V Euergetus.........................c. 150-121/0
• Mithridates VI Eupator...........................121/0-63 with...
• Laodice..........................................121/0-115
  • Deiotarus of Galatia (Roman client)............63-47 d. 40
• Pharnaces II (in Cimmerian Bosporus)................63-47
• Pharnaces provides the role for one of history's better-remembered straight-men. He invaded his Anatolian homeland in 47, only to be catastrophically overwhelmed by Julius Caesar at Zeta. This Roman victory gave Caesar the opportunity to send the famously terse dispatch back to the Roman Senate "Veni, vidi, vici." (I came, I saw, I conquered).
• To Roman Republic...................................63-39
  • Ariarates (VIII, King of Cappadocia 101-96)....47-39
  • Darius.........................................39-37
  • Polemon I (King of Bosporus 14-8 BCE)..........37-8
  • Pythodorida (fem.)...........................8 BCE-19 CE
  • Artaxias (Zeno)................................19-27
• To the Roman Empire.................................23-38
  • Polemon II (King of Bosporus 38-39)............38-64
• To the Roman Empire.................................64-395
• To the Byzantine Empire............................395-1204
• To Trabizond thereafter, which see, below...