{"slug": "galatia", "label": "Galatia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26847", "qid": "Q26847", "description": "area in the highlands of central Asia Minor", "entries": 13, "years": 12, "span": [-235, 608], "span_label": ["236 BCE", "608 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 9}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "cappadocia", "label": "Cappadocia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "pergamum", "label": "Pergamum", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "eumenes-ii", "label": "Eumenes II", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "seleucid", "label": "Seleucid", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "seleucus-ii-callinicus", "label": "Seleucus II Callinicus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "celts", "label": "Celts", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bithynia", "label": "Bithynia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "phrygia", "label": "Phrygia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "khosrau-ii", "label": "Khosrau II", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -235, "year_label": "236 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus Hierax, supported by his mother Laodice I, allies himself with the Galatians (Celts) and two other states that are traditional foes of the Seleucid kingdom. With the aid of these forces, he inflicts a crushing defeat on his older brother Seleucus II's army at Ancyra in Anatolia. Seleucus leaves the country beyond the Taurus Mountains to his brother and the other powers of the peninsula.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368088891#Asia_Minor", "title": "236 BC", "revid": 1368088891, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -229, "year_label": "230 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The city of Pergamum is attacked by the Galatians (Celts who have settled in central Anatolia) because the leader of Pergamum, Attalus I Soter, has refused to pay them the customary tribute. Attalus crushes his enemy in a battle outside the walls of his city and to mark the success he takes the title of king and the name Soter.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1304215922#Asia_Minor", "title": "230 BC", "revid": 1304215922, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -225, "year_label": "226 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus Hierax, brother of the Seleucid King Seleucus II manages to escape from captivity in Thrace and flees to the mountains to raise an army, but he is killed by a band of Galatians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360927548#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "226 BC", "revid": 1360927548, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -188, "year_label": "189 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Romans under consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso, along with a Pergamene army under Eumenes II, defeat the Galatians in Anatolia and make them subjects of Pergamum.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370483432#Asia_Minor", "title": "189 BC", "revid": 1370483432, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -180, "year_label": "181 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Pharnaces I of Pontus decides to attack both Eumenes II of Pergamum and Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia and therefore invades Galatia with a large force. Eumenes leads an army to oppose him, however, hostilities are soon suspended following the arrival of Roman deputies, who have been appointed by the Roman Senate to inquire into the matters in dispute. Negotiations take place at Pergamum but are inconclusive, with Pharnaces' demands being rejected by the Romans as unreasonable. As a consequence, the war between Pontus and Pergamum and Cappadocia is renewed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363192990#Asia_Minor", "title": "181 BC", "revid": 1363192990, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -178, "year_label": "179 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Eumenes II of Pergamum defeats Pharnaces I of Pontus in a major battle. Finding himself unable to cope with the combined forces of Eumenes and Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia, Pharnaces is compelled to purchase peace by ceding all his conquests in Galatia and Paphlagonia, with the exception of Sinope.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209269446#Asia_Minor", "title": "179 BC", "revid": 1209269446, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -66, "year_label": "67 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Lucullus returnes to Pontus, but his troops refuse to campaign for him any longer and he withdrew to Galatia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366933711#Pontus", "title": "67 BC", "revid": 1366933711, "section": "Events › By place › Pontus"}}, {"year": -36, "year_label": "37 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Antony reorganizes Asia Minor under strongmen loyal to him. He raises troops from his allies: Amyntas and Archelaus, kings of Galatia and Cappadocia. The old kingdom of Pontus is restored, from Armenia to the River Halys under Polemon I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325862706#Roman_Republic", "title": "37 BC", "revid": 1325862706, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -30, "year_label": "31 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Amyntas, king of Galatia, deserts with 2,000 cavalry to Octavian. One-third of Antony's oarsmen are lost to malnutrition, disease and desertion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371049882#Roman_Republic", "title": "31 BC", "revid": 1371049882, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -24, "year_label": "25 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Amyntas of Galatia, King of Galatia", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267077793#Deaths", "title": "25 BC", "revid": 1267077793, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -24, "year_label": "25 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Galatia becomes a Roman province after the death of its king. The Roman troops stationed there are relocated to Egypt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267077793#Roman_Empire", "title": "25 BC", "revid": 1267077793, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 6, "year_label": "6 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "AD 6 – Marcus Plautius Silvanus is made governor of Galatia and Pamphylia and suppresses an uprising of the Isaurians in Pamphylia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365712040#Roman_Empire", "title": "0s", "revid": 1365712040, "section": "Events › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 608, "year_label": "608 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine–Persian War: King Khosrau II invades Armenia, and raids deep into Anatolia through the Byzantine provinces of Cappadocia, Phrygia, Galatia, and Bithynia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1289400818#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "608", "revid": 1289400818, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}