Ancient Pontus
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
??
To Persia.......................................c.
550-333
ARTABAZID-MITHRIDATID.
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.
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