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The Kingdom of Pontus was divided into two distinct areas: the coastal region and the Pontic interior. The coastal region bordering the Black Sea was separated from the mountainous inland area by the Pontic Alps, which run parallel to the coast.
Map of Asia Minor in 89 BC, showing Roman provinces and client states as well as Pontic territory. The Kingdom of Pontus, under Mithridates VI the Great, is in green.
Historical Map of Western Mediterranean (6 June 1808 - Napoleonic Kingdom of Spain: Upon learning of the Dos de Mayo Uprising (May 1808), Napoleon met with the rival Spanish kings—Charles IV and his son Ferdinand VII—and forced them both to abdicate. He then appointed his older brother Joseph Bonaparte as King of Spain and made the French general Murat king of Joseph’s former kingdom of ...
Pontus. The land of Pontus has two main parts, both of which belonged to the Mithridatic kingdom of Pontus in the Hellenistic period. The first is the main ridge of the Pontic mountains and the steep descent to the shore. The lower slopes are thickly wooded, and the shore districts have a humid and rainy climate.
The fourth deals more specifically with the kingdom of the Mithridatids, the so-called kingdom of Pontus. But the starting point, which has led to this structure, is an analysis of the region's name, and in particular of the adjectival form Ponticus Ποντικός, which was derived from it.
16 cze 2020 · Map of the Pontic Kingdom before the reign of Mithridates VI (darkest purple), after his conquests (purple), and his conquests in the first Mithridatic wars (pink); little adds (ancient shorelines &...
2 lip 2019 · The Kingdom of Pontus was a Hellenistic state of Persian origin situated in the Eastern Asia Minor wasted by the Black Sea which played an extraordinary role in the Antique history between 302-64 BC. Its favorable geographical position remained an imprint on…
