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In 89 BC, Roman legionaries intervened in the Black Sea region to curb the ambitions of Mithridates VI of Pontos. Over the next two centuries, the Roman presence on the Black Sea coast was slowly, but steadily increased.
Dec 19, 2023 · The Periplus of the Euxine Sea (Circumnavigation of the Black Sea) is a description of trade routes along the shores of the Black Sea written by Arrian of Nicomedia (Lucius Flavius Arrianus), a historian and philosopher writing in the early 2nd century CE.
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Roman naval presence in the Black Sea, a relatively late development, must be assessed according to the variety of Roman naval forces: standing fleets, provincial fleets and occasional fleets for invasions.
Moreover, a Roman fleet was at the mouth of the Black Sea, isolating Pontos from the Aegean. The overall strategic situation was that the Roman commanders would set up a blockade that prevented Mithridates from moving out of the Pontic region into the rest of Asia Minor, but Nikomedes would make the actual attack on Pontos.
The Greeks and Romans in the Black Sea presents the Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities, dedicated to the 90th birthday of Prof. Sir John Boardman, President of the Congress since its inception.
The ancient Greeks first entered the Black Sea before 500 BC, perhaps at first searching for precious metals. Trade flourished as Greek colonies sprang up along the coasts and the Greeks interacted with native barbarian populations. Those relations were shaken by the rise of Rome, when the sea became a place of exile.
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When the Italians first began their commerce in the Black Sea, they spoke of voyages to a land called “Romania”—that is, the empire of the new “Romans,” with its seat at Constantinople. In the middle of the 1300s, however, “Romania” disappears from the records of Genoese and Venetian notaries.
