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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…

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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…

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Philetaerus

Philetaerus: ruler of Pergamon (d. 263), founder of the Attalid dynasty. Philetaerus (bust from the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum) Relatives Father: Attalus,…

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Phocaea

Phocaea (Φώκαια): Greek city in Ionia, modern Foça in western Turkey. Death mask Phocaea was the most northerly of the Ionian settlements…

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