{"slug": "asia-roman-province", "label": "Asia (Roman province)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_%28Roman_province%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q210718", "qid": "Q210718", "description": "Roman province", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-87, 513], "span_label": ["88 BCE", "513 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "bithynia", "label": "Bithynia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-pontus", "label": "Kingdom of Pontus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "mithridates-vi", "label": "Mithridates VI", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "turkey", "label": "Turkey", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seneca-the-younger", "label": "Seneca the Younger", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gnaeus-domitius-corbulo", "label": "Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greece", "label": "Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cappadocia", "label": "Cappadocia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -87, "year_label": "88 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May", "text": "May – King Mithridates VI of Pontus invades Greece. Defeating the Roman forces four times in succession, he conquers Bithynia, Phrygia, Mysia, Lycia, Pamphylia, Ionia and Cappadocia. The Roman province of Asia is dismantled. On the king's orders, the local authorities in every city of the province round up and put to death all resident Italians in a single day (App.Mith.§§85–91). Plutarch (Sulla 24.4) says that 150,000 are killed, other sources calculate a figure of 80,000 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325703284#Greece", "title": "88 BC", "revid": 1325703284, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -82, "year_label": "83 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Lucius Licinius Murena, the Roman governor of Asia, clashes with the Pontic forces of Mithridates VI, starting the Second Mithridatic War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369868116#Roman_Republic", "title": "83 BC", "revid": 1369868116, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -41, "year_label": "42 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The confederation of Lycia sends ambassadors to Brutus, promising to form a military league and contribute money for building ships. Gaius Cassius Longinus occupies Rhodes, and orders all the other cities of Asia to pay a tribute for 10 years.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352172627#Roman_Republic", "title": "42 BC", "revid": 1352172627, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -34, "year_label": "35 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Sextus Pompeius defeats the governor of Asia, Gaius Furnius, with three legions and seizes Nicaea and Nicomedia (modern Izmit).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325862738#Roman_Republic", "title": "35 BC", "revid": 1325862738, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 54, "year_label": "54 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo arrives in the East and takes up an assignment as governor of Asia, with a secret brief from Nero and his chief ministers, Seneca and Burrus, to return Armenia to the Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#Anatolia", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 54 AD › Anatolia"}}, {"year": 513, "year_label": "513 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Anastasius I reduces taxes in the provinces of Bithynia and Asia, to prevent them from joining the rebellion. Vitalian marches to Constantinople and encamps at the suburb of Hebdomon (modern Turkey).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364908252#Europe", "title": "513", "revid": 1364908252, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}