Pompey's Eastern Campaigns (66-62 BCE)

66 BCE · Doğu Akdeniz · military

Pompey decisively defeated Mithridates, conquered Syria and took Jerusalem (63 BCE); he established the provinces of Pontus, Bithynia and Syria.

He turned the eastern Mediterranean into Rome's "inland sea". | Rome's complete dominance over the East; the entry of Judaea under Roman rule.

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Pompey decisively defeated Mithridates, conquered Syria and took Jerusalem (63 BCE); he established the provinces of Pontus, Bithynia and Syria.
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66 BCE
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