Asander

king of the Bosporus

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role in Roman Empire

  • Roman Forum
    In ancient Rome: Foreign policy

    …Bosporus, under its successive rulers Asander and Polemo, helped to contain southward and westward thrusts by the Scythians, an Iranian people related to the Parthians, and this provided protection in the north for Anatolia and its provinces (senatorial Asia and Bithynia-Pontus and imperial Cilicia and Galatia, the latter a large…

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