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  • NAME: Mithridates VI
  • OCCUPATION: General, King
  • BIRTH DATE: c. 134 BCE
  • DEATH DATE: c. 63 BCE
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Sinop, Turkey
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Panticapaeum, Ukraine
  • Nickname: Mithradates the Great

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Mithridates VI (Eupator) was the king of Pontus (in modern-day Turkey) during the 1st and 2nd century BC and an enemy of Rome during the Mithridatic Wars.


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Mithridates VI--known as "the Great"--was born in 134 BC in the city of Sinop (located in modern-day Turkey). He was king of Pontus in northern Anatolia (120–63 ). Under his leadership, Pontus expanded to absorb several of its small neighbours and, briefly, contested Rome's hegemony during the Mithridatic Wars. He died in 63 BC.

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