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:
Pharnaces (2)
Pharnaces II (Elamite Parnaka): satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia (c.430-c.422). Achaemenid nobleman, late sixth/early fifth century BCE. Pharnaces II was the son of…Pharnaces I of Pontus
Pharnaces I: king of Pontus (r.185-160 BCE).Pharnaces succeeded his father Mithridates III in c.185 BCE and captured Sinope in 183 BCE. This was the beginning of what was called the "Pontic War", in which the kingdom of Pontus had to face…Pharnaces II of Pontus
Pharnaces II: king of Pontus (r.63-47 BCE). Zela Pharnaces was the son of Mithridates VI Eupator, the king of Pontus who fought…Pharnacids
Pharnacids: Persian satrapal dynasty, ruling in Hellespontine Phrygia.The Pharnacids decended from an Achaemenid nobleman named Pharnaces, who was mayor of the palace of the Persian king Darius I the Great. In 477, Pharnaces' son Artabazus was appointed satrap of Hellespontine…
Phrygia, the mountains north of Sivrihisar |
Phrygia, Tombstone of Trophimus and his family |
Phrygians
Phrygians: an ancient nation in western Turkey. Their capital was Gordium.Origin Phrygian antefix Compared to several other nations in Anatolia, the Phrygians…
Pinarbasi, Inscription of Tudhaliya IV |
Pissuthnes
Pissuthnes (Old Persian Pišišyaothna; c.470-c.415): Persian satrap of Lydia, revolted against king Darius II Nothus in 420-415 BCE. Achaemenid nobleman Pissuthnes was…Pixodarus
Pixodarus: satrap of Caria between 340 and 334, last ruler from the Hecatomnid dynasty.Pixodarus was the youngest son of Hecatomnus, who had obtained the satrapy of Caria in 392/391. He had been succeeded by his oldest son Maussolus, his oldest…Plutarch on the Gordian Knot
Alexander the Great (*356; r. 336-323): the Macedonian king who defeated his Persian colleague Darius III Codomannus and conquered the Achaemenid Empire. During his campaigns, Alexander visited a.o. Egypt, Babylonia, Persis, Media, Bactria, the Punjab, and the valley of the…Polemon I Eusebes
Polemon I Eusebes: Roman vassal king, ruling in Lycaonia, Cilicia, Pontus, and Lesser Armenia (r.37-8 BCE).Polemon I is mentioned in several sources. He was the son of a man named Zeno, a leading citizen of Laodicea, a city that was traditionally pro-Roman…