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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 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 ...
Hygiaenon (Ancient Greek: Ὑγιαίνων, romanized: Hygiainon) was an Archon of the Bosporan Kingdom after his predecessor, Leucon II, was slain by his wife Alcathoe in c. 220 BC. Although he was not part of the Spartocid dynasty , he seems to have been a supporter of Camasarye , the heiress and queen of the Bosporan Kingdom.
Given that sources on the Bosporus from after 341 nearly non-existent, Rhescuporis VI is often referred to as the last king of the Bosporan Kingdom. [1] [5] Traditionally the Bosporan Kingdom is believed to have been destroyed by the Goths and the Huns at the end of his reign [6] but there is no evidence for this. [1]
Paerisades III (Greek: Παιρισάδης) was a son of Leukon II and Alkathoe, he also succeeded his brother Spartokos V as Spartocid king of the Bosporan Kingdom from 180 to 150 BC. He co-ruled with Kamasarye II .
Spartocus inherited the throne from his father in 304 BC, after his father's unexpected death during his return from Sindia. [1] Upon assuming the throne, he became the first Bosporan ruler to take the title of Basileus, [2] likely following the example of contemporary Hellenistic kings such as the Antigonids, Lysimachids, Seleucids and Ptolemies.
Little is known on the early life of Mithridates. Aspurgus headed the Bosporan domain until his death in 37 or 38. [8] Gepaepyris succeeded her husband as sole ruler. [9] In AD 39 Mithridates inherited the throne of his mother. [10] Sometime before 45, the Roman Emperor Claudius had given Mithridates the whole Bosporan Kingdom to rule. Claudius ...
The name Aspurgus is of Iranian origin, derived from aspa (horse) and aspabara (horseman). [2]Aspurgus was born to Asander, ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom and Dynamis.He was the maternal grandchild to the previous Roman client king of the Bosporan and Pontus, Pharnaces II and his Sarmatian wife.