An ancient region of northern Asia Minor, on the Black Sea coast north of Cappadocia. Between 120 and 63 BC, under Mithridates VI, it dominated the whole of Asia Minor; by the end of the 1st century BC it had been defeated by Rome and absorbed into the Roman Empire.
An ancient region in northern Asia Minor, on the Black Sea coast north of Cappadocia. By the end of the 1st century BC, it had been defeated by Rome and absorbed into the Roman Empire.