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Bosporan Civil War, the Glossary

The Bosporan Civil War was a war of succession that happened in the Bosporan Kingdom somewhere between 311 and 308 BCE and lasted for about a year.^[1]

28 relations: Archon, Aripharnes, Battle of Lake Maeotis, Battle of the River Thatis, Bibliotheca historica, Black Sea, Bosporan Kingdom, Bosporan wars of expansion, Casus belli, Demosthenes, Diodorus Siculus, Eumelus of Bosporus, Gylon, Kepoi, Leucon I, Lysimachus, Nymphaeum, Paerisades I, Pantikapaion, Phalanx, Prytanis of Bosporus, Sarmatians, Satyrus II, Scythians, Siege of Siracena, Siraces, Tanais, War of succession.
300s BC conflicts
Civil wars of antiquity
Wars involving the Scythians
Wars of the Bosporan Kingdom

Archon

Archon (árchōn, plural: ἄρχοντες, árchontes) is a Greek word that means "ruler", frequently used as the title of a specific public office.

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Aripharnes (fl. 310–309 BC) or Arypharnasha the Thataean was king of the Sarmatian tribe of Siraces and took part in the First Bosporan Civil War of 310-309 between king Satyros II and his brother Eumelos, a pretender to the throne.

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Battle of Lake Maeotis

The Battle of Lake Maeotis was a military engagement of the Spartocid civil war that took place in winter of 309 BC near the Maeotic Lake. Bosporan Civil War and Battle of Lake Maeotis are 300s BC conflicts and wars of the Bosporan Kingdom.

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Battle of the River Thatis

The Battle of the River Thatis was part of a succession dispute in the Bosporan Kingdom that was fought out during 310/309 BC. Bosporan Civil War and Battle of the River Thatis are 300s BC conflicts and wars of the Bosporan Kingdom.

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Bibliotheca historica

Bibliotheca historica (Βιβλιοθήκη Ἱστορική) is a work of universal history by Diodorus Siculus.

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Black Sea

The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.

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Bosporan Kingdom

The Bosporan Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus (Basileía tou Kimmerikou Bospórou; 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.

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Bosporan wars of expansion

The Bosporan Kingdom waged a series of wars of expansion in the Cimmerian Bosporus and the surrounding territories from around 438 BC until about 355 BC. Bosporan Civil War and Bosporan wars of expansion are wars of the Bosporan Kingdom.

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Casus belli

A casus belli is an act or an event that either provokes or is used to justify a war.

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Demosthenes

Demosthenes (translit;; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens.

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Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily (Diódōros; 1st century BC) was an ancient Greek historian.

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Eumelus of Bosporus

Eumelus of Bosporus (Eumelos, fl. 309–304 BC) was a Spartocid ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom and a son of Paerisades.

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Gylon

Gylon (Γύλων), also known as Gylon of Cerameis, was a Greek military official and the maternal grandfather of Demosthenes.

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Kepoi

Kepoi or Cepoi (Ancient Greek: Κῆποι, Russian: Кепы) was an ancient Greek colony situated on the Taman peninsula, three kilometres to the east of Phanagoria, in the present-day Krasnodar Krai of Russia.

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Leucon I

Leucon I of Bosporus (Leukon, lived c. 410–349 BC) also known as Leuco, was a Spartocid ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom who ruled from 389 to 349 BC.

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Lysimachus

Lysimachus (Greek: Λυσίμαχος,meaning: "the one that terminates the battle". Lysimachos; c. 360 BC – 281 BC) was a Thessalian officer and successor of Alexander the Great, who in 306 BC, became king of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedon.

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Nymphaeum

A nymphaeum or nymphaion (nymphaîon), in ancient Greece and Rome, was a monument consecrated to the nymphs, especially those of springs.

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Paerisades I

Paerisades I (Παιρισάδης) also known as Birisades, Pairisades, and Parysades was a Spartocid king of the Bosporan Kingdom from 342 to 310/9 BC.

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Pantikapaion

Pantikapaion (Παντικάπαιον, from Scythian *Pantikapa 'fish-path'; Panticapaeum) was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of Crimea, which the Greeks called Taurica.

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Phalanx

The phalanx (phalanxes or phalanges) was a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar polearms tightly packed together.

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Prytanis of Bosporus

Prytanis (Greek: Πρύτανης) was king of the Bosporan Kingdom from 310 to 309 BC.

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Sarmatians

The Sarmatians (Sarmatai; Latin: Sarmatae) were a large confederation of ancient Iranian equestrian nomadic peoples who dominated the Pontic steppe from about the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD.

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Satyrus II

Satyrus II (Satyros) was a son of Paerisades I and Spartocid king of the Bosporan Kingdom for 9 months in 310 BC.

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Scythians

The Scythians or Scyths (but note Scytho- in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established from the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.

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Siege of Siracena

The Siege of Siracena was a Bosporan siege led by Satyrus II and Meniscus on the fortified capital city of the Siraces, Siracena, that occurred in 309 BC during the First Bosporan Civil War. Bosporan Civil War and siege of Siracena are 300s BC conflicts and wars of the Bosporan Kingdom.

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Siraces

The Siraces (Sirakoi, Siraci, also Siraceni and Seraci) were a hellenized Sarmatian tribe that inhabited Sarmatia Asiatica; the coast of Achardeus at the Black Sea north of the Caucasus Mountains, Siracena is mentioned by Tacitus as one of their settlements.

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Tanais

Tanais (Τάναϊς Tánaïs; Танаис) was an ancient Greek city in the Don river delta, called the Maeotian marshes in classical antiquity.

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War of succession

A war of succession is a war prompted by a succession crisis in which two or more individuals claim the right of successor to a deceased or deposed monarch.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosporan_Civil_War