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The Bosporan kings were the rulers of the Bosporan Kingdom, an ancient Hellenistic Greco-Scythian state centered on the Kerch Strait (the Cimmerian Bosporus) and ruled from the city of Panticapaeum. Panticapaeum was founded in the 7th or 6th century BC; the earliest known king of the Bosporus is Archaeanax , who seized control of the city c ...
The Bosporan Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus (Ancient Greek: Βασιλεία τοῦ Κιμμερικοῦ Βοσπόρου, romanized: Basileía tou Kimmerikou Bospórou; Latin: Regnum Bospori), was an ancient Greco-Scythian state located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus, centered in the present-day Strait of Kerch.
The English name Cimmerians is derived from Latin Cimmerii, itself derived from the Ancient Greek Kimmerioi (Κιμμεριοι), [2] of an ultimately uncertain origin for which there have been various proposals: according to János Harmatta, it was derived from Old Iranic *Gayamira, meaning "union of clans." [3]
Tiberius Julius Sauromates II Philocaesar Philoromaios Eusebes, also known as Sauromates II (Greek: Τιβέριος Ἰούλιος Σαυρομάτης Β΄ Φιλοκαῖσαρ Φιλορωμαῖος Eὐσεβής, Philocaesar Philoromaios Eusebes, the epithets meaning "friend of Caesar, friend of Rome, pious one" [1]) was a Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom.
Sometime between 27 and 17 BC, Augustus formally recognised Asander as king of Bosporan Kingdom. According to Strabo, Asander blocked the isthmus of the Chersonesus ( Chersonesus Tauricus , modern Crimea ) near Lake Maeotis (the Sea of Azov ) with a wall which was 360 stadia long ( 53 kilometres, 35 miles) and had ten towers for every stadium.
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Antenor was variously named as the son of the Dardanian noble Aesyetes by Cleomestra [3] or of Hicetaon. [4] He was the husband of Theano, [5] daughter of Cisseus of Thrace, who bore him at least one daughter, Crino, [6] and numerous sons, including Acamas, [7] [8] Agenor, [9] [10] Antheus, [11] Archelochus, [12] [13] Coön, [14] Demoleon, [15] Eurymachus, [16] Glaucus, [17] Helicaon, [18 ...