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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 ...
Attalid kingdom (282 BC–133 BC) Kingdom of Bithynia (297 BC–63 BC) Seleucid Empire (312–63 BC) Ptolemaic Kingdom (305–30 BC) Bosporan Kingdom (438 BC– 370 AD) Kingdom of Pontus (302–64 BC): ruled by the Mithridatic dynasty of Persian origin, [3] [4] [5] the kingdom was Hellenized in culture, [4] and with Greek being the official ...
The Army of the Bosporan Kingdom. Translated by Sekunda, Nicholas. Łódź: Oficyna Naukowa MS. ISBN 978-8385874034. Munk Højte, Jakob (2009). Mithridates VI and the Pontic Kingdom. Aarhus University Press. Numismatic. Rare and Unique Coins of Bosporan Kingdom. Bulletin of the Odesa Numismatics Museum. Issues 7,8,9. 2001. Odesa. Ukraine.
Rhadamsades became king of the Bosporan Kingdom in 309, succeeding Theothorses. [3] [4] [5] Nothing is known of his origin and relationship to other kings.Like his predecessor Theothorses, his name is of Iranian origin, [1] which could indicate that he was a Sarmatian or Alan tribal leader or nobleman who seized power, rather than a genuine member of the previous Bosporan ruling Tiberian ...
Like many of the other late Bosporan kings, Rhescuporis III is known mainly from coinage, meaning that the historical events of his reign are largely unknown. His coins are known from the period 211–228. [1] He is known from an inscription to have been the son of his predecessor, Sauromates II. [2]
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.
Rulers of the Bosporan Kingdom — on the Black Sea in eastern Europe. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. M.