Pontic Kings

Little Phrygia is a Persian satrapy in the territory of Mysia with its center in Daskileone. The following rulers never ruled in Ponte, but dynastic are the immediate predecessors of the Pontic kings.

ARTABAZIDES (lateral branch of the Persian Achaemenids)

• 502 - 450 BC. e .: Artabaz I , son of Farnak.
• 450 - 420 BC. e .: Otan I , son of Artabaz I.
• 420 - 402 BC. e .: Ariobarzan I , son of Otan I.
• 402 - 367 BC. e .: Mithridates I , son of Ariobarzan I.
• 367 - 337 BC. e .: Ariobarzan II , son of Mithridates I (in 363 - 337 BC. E. - semi-independent king).
• 337 - 302 BC. e .: Mithridates II of Kyos, son of Ariobarzan II , tyrant of Kios .

Under the rule of the Achaemenids, Cappadocia was divided into two satrapies — Great Cappadocia (later it retained the name Cappadocia ) and Little Cappadocia (which later lost its name and became known as Pontus ).

• VI - IV centuries. BC e .: (unknown by the name of the satrap).
• to 334 BC. e .: Mitrobuzan I (died at the Battle of Granik ).

Macedonian strata Cappadocia in 334-306 BC. er ...

To the kingdom of Antigone I Monophthalmos in 306 - 302 BC. er ...

Mithridates (continuation of the Artabazid dynasty)

• 302 - 266 BC. e .: Mithridates I Ktist, son of Orontobat, brother of Mithridates II of Kyos (in 281 BC. He took the royal title ).
• 266 - 250 BC. e .: Ariobarzan I , son of Mithridates I.
• 250 - 220 BC. e .: Mithridates II , son of Ariobarzan I.
• 220 - 190 BC. e .: Mithridates III , son of Mithridates II .
• 190 - 159 BC. e .: Farnak I , son of Mithridates III .
• 159 - 150 BC. e .: Mithridates IV Philopator, son of Mithridates III .
• 150 - 121 BC. e .: Mithridates V Everget, son of Farnak I.
• 121 - 63 BC. e .: Mithridates VI Evpator Dionysus, son of Mithridates V.
• 121 - 113 BC e .: Mithridates VII Khrest, son of Mithridates V (co-ruler of his brother).
  • 121 - 113 BC e .: Laodike (VI) , daughter of Syrian Antiochus IV, widow of Mithridates V , mother of Mithridates VI and Mithridates VII (regent) .

  Mithridates I Ktist
                    |
          Ariobarzan Pontic
                    |
              Mithridates II
            ________ | ___________________
           |  |
      Mithridates III Laodike III
      _____ | _________ |
      |  |  Antioch
  Farnak I Mithridates IV Philopatra |
      |  Nisa
  Mithridates v Everget
      |
  Mithridates VI
      |
  Farnak II

After the defeat of Mithridates VI from the Romans, the coastal areas of Ponta became a Roman province, which was later merged with Bithiniia into the province of Bithynia and Pont . In the part of Pontus with the center in Pharnacia (the so-called Polemont Pont ), kings appointed by Rome ruled.

DEYOTARIDES (dynasty of tetrarchs of the Tolistobog tribe in Galatia )

• 63 - 48 BC. e .: Deyotar I Philoromei, son of Sino-riks (king of Galatia in 63-40 BC).
• 51 - 48 BC. e .: Deiotar II Philopator, son of Deiotar I (co-ruler of the father).

Mithridates (continued dynasty)

• 48 - 47 BC. e .: Farnak II Bosporsky, son of Mithridates VI (king of Bosporus in 63 - 47 BC. e.).

MENODOTIDS

• 47 - 47 BC. e .: Mithridates VIII of Pergamum, son of Menodoth of Pergamum and Adobogion II (sisters of Brogitar I of Galatia), [called himself the illegitimate son of Mithridates VI of Pontic] (challenger, protégé of Caesar ) (king of Bosporus and Colchis 47-45; tetrarch of Trocmas in Galatia 47 -45; one of the kings of Galatia 46-45) .

DEYOTARIDES (dynasty of tetrarchs of the Tolistobog tribe in Galatia )

• 47 - 40 BC. e .: Deyotar I Philoromei, son of Sino-riks (second time).
• 47 - 43 BC. e .: Deiotar II Philopator, son of Deiotar I (second time).

Mithridates (the last kings of the dynasty)

• 39 - 37 BC. e .: Darius I of Pontus, son of Pharnack II .
• 37 - 36 BC. e .: Arshak I Pontus, son of Pharnack II .

ZENONIDES

• 36 - 8 BC. e .: Polemon I Evseb Soter, son of the rhetorician Zeno of Laodicea .
• 8 BC. er - 23 n. er : Pythorphidus I Philometra, the widow of Polemon I , the daughter of Pythodore of Thrall and the daughter of Mark Antony .
• 3 BC er - 17 n. er : Polemon II (Marc Anthony Polemon Pythodore), son of Polemon I and Pytophoris I (co-ruler of the mother) (Olba Cilician theocratic 17-36 AD) .
• 23 - 38 AD e .: Anthony I Tryphena, daughter of Polemon I and Pythorphorids I.

REMETALKIDES (dynasty of the kings of the Sapaean tribe in Thrace)

• 38 - 64 n. e .: Pollemon III (II) Philopator, son of Cotys VIII of the Thracian and Anthony I Triphenes.

In 64 n. e. Pontic kingdom became part of the Roman Empire as the province of Pont .

FLAVIA

• 335 - 337 n. e .: Flavius Hannibalian I Junior [Younger], son of Dalmatia Elder (stepbrother of Constantine I the Great ) (“king of kings” [Rex Regum] and “noble sovereign” [Rex Nobilissimus] Ponta with residence in Caesarea ; killed during a palace plot ) .

Comana Pontus (Greek Κόμανα Ποντική) is an ancient city in Ponte, founded by settlers from the Comanes of Cappadocia. The city was located near the current Turkish village of Gümenek . At the end of 3 Mitridatov war, Pompey laid here the temple of the Roman goddess of war Bellona , making the high priest and ruler (theocracy) of the city of Archela, the son of the Pontic commander Archela, who fought with the Romans in the ^1st Mithridates war, after the war fell into disgrace and fled to the Romans.

ARHELAIDS

• 65 - 55 BC. e .: Archelaus I , son of Pontic commander Archelaus and daughter of Mithridates VI of Pontic, husband of Berenice IV of Egypt [called himself an illegitimate son of Mithridates VI of Pontic] (king of Egypt [co-ruler of his wife] in 56-55 BC) .
• 55 - 47 BC. e .: Archelaus II , the son of Archelaus I , the father of Archelaus I (the king of Cappadocia 36 BC - 17 CE).

LIKOMEDIDY

• 47 - 31 BC. e .: Likomed I , son of Nisa (daughter of Ariarate VI of Cappadocia, wife of Nycomed IV of Vifa) from her ^1st marriage with a famous Vikhina (unknown by name) (aspirant to the Vifinsky throne from 74 BC. after the death of Nycomed IV] ) .
• 31 - 30 BC. e .: Medea , son or grandson of Likomed I and Orsabarida (daughter of Mithridates VI of Pontic).

Cleonides

• 30 - 30 BC. e .: Cleont I of Gordiukoma (Miziec; died a month after the beginning of the reign) .

TARCONDARIDS

• 30 BC. er - 34 n. er : Ditevt , son of Adiatorix (King of Heraclea of ​​Pontus, 36–31 BC, tetrarch of the Tosiopers in Galatia, 48–31 BC).

To Rome from 34 AD er ...

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• Coins of Pontic Kings: Asia Minor Coins - regal Pontian coins .