Anatolia
This category deals with an area that is more or less identical to modern Turkey, prior to, say, Alexander the Great.
There are 566 items in Anatolia:
Myra, Lycian tomb |
Myra, Rock tombs
Myra: town in Lycia, modern Demre. The ancient town is especially well-known because it was the residence of Nicholas of Myra, the original saint behind Santa Claus.Like all Lycian towns, Myra appears to have been settled from the late Archaic…
Myra, Rock tombs |
Myra, Rock tombs |
Neo-Hittites
Neo-Hittites or Syro-Hittites: modern name for the successor states of the Hittite Empire, which had desintegrated in the early twelfth century BCE.Demise of the Hittite Empire …Nicomedes I of Bithynia
Nicomedes I: king of Bithynia (r.278-255 BCE). Nicomedes I King Zipoetes of Bithynia died in 278, after a reign of almost half…
Nicomedes I |
Nicomedes III Euergetes
Nicomedes III Euergetes: king of Bithynia (r.127-94 BCE).Nicomedes III inherited a quiet kingdom from his father Nicomedes II Epiphanes, and concluded an alliance with his ambitious neighbor, Mithridates VI of Pontus. In 108 BCE, they invaded Paphlagonia, which they divided. Soon,…Nicomedes IV Philopator
Nicomedes IV Philopator: last king of independent Bithynia (r.94-77 BCE).Nicomedes IV Philopator, a son of Nicomedes III Euergetes and Nysa of Cappadocia, inherited the Bithynian throne in an unquiet age, with Mithridates VI of Pontus as a dangerous neighbor. He…
Oenoanda, Lycian tomb |
Oroetus
Oroetus: Persian satrap of Lydia, appointed by king Cyrus the Great, responsible for the death of Polycrates of Samos, killed by order of king Darius I the Great. …Orophernes I
Orophernes (c.320 BCE): brother Ariarathes I, the first ruler of independent Cappadocia.According to a very confused story by Diodorus of Sicily,note[Diodorus, Library of World History 31.19.] Orophernes was the brother of Ariarathes I, and fought for the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes…