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Mithridatic Wars

88 BCE – 63 BCE · 25 years

Three wars between Rome and Mithridates VI of Pontus. Sulla sacked Athens, Lucullus defeated Armenia, and Pompey's final campaigns annexed Pontus and Syria, permanently drawing Rome into the eastern Mediterranean.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Roman Republic
  • Kingdom of Pontus & Armenia

Key moments

Defining events in the Mithridatic Wars.

  1. 87–86 BC Siege of Athens
  2. 86 BC Battle of Chaeronea
  3. 69 BC Battle of Tigranocerta

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88 BCE – 82 BCE

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Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

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Attested 1500 BCE – 700 CE

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73 BCE – 71 BCE

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Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 88 BCE and 63 BCE.

88 BCE Sulla's Civil Wars 73 BCE Third Servile War (Spartacus)

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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