{"slug": "paphlagonia", "label": "Paphlagonia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paphlagonia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q622032", "qid": "Q622032", "description": "historical region of Asia Minor", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-322, 1092], "span_label": ["323 BCE", "1092 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "cappadocia", "label": "Cappadocia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "bithynia", "label": "Bithynia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-pontus", "label": "Kingdom of Pontus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "turkey", "label": "Turkey", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolic-theme", "label": "Anatolic Theme", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mithridates-vi", "label": "Mithridates VI", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "eumenes", "label": "Eumenes", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sultanate-of-rum", "label": "Sultanate of Rum", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alexios-i-komnenos", "label": "Alexios I Komnenos", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kilij-arslan-i", "label": "Kilij Arslan I", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -322, "year_label": "323 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Eumenes of Cardia as governor of Cappadocia and Paphlagonia; and", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311163255#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "323 BC", "revid": 1311163255, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"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": -105, "year_label": "106 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Nicomedes III of Bithynia and Mithridates VI of Pontus share their dominion over Paphlagonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1314076766#Anatolia", "title": "106 BC", "revid": 1314076766, "section": "Events › By place › Anatolia"}}, {"year": -74, "year_label": "75 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Nicomedes IV of Bithynia bequeaths his kingdom to Rome on his death (75/4 BC). Angered by the arrangement, Mithridates VI of Pontus declares war on Rome and invades Bithynia, Cappadocia and Paphlagonia, thus starting the Third Mithridatic War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371365862#Roman_Republic", "title": "75 BC", "revid": 1371365862, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 1057, "year_label": "1057 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 8", "text": "June 8 – General Isaac Komnenos proclaims himself emperor in Paphlagonia (modern Turkey), and starts a civil war against Emperor Michael VI. He advances with a Byzantine expeditionary force towards Constantinople. At the same time, Michael sends an army against the rebels – western regiments and eastern ones (those from the Anatolic Theme and Charsianon) – to stop him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1335991921#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1057", "revid": 1335991921, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1059, "year_label": "1059 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 22", "text": "November 22 – Emperor Isaac I Komnenos falls ill on a hunt and retires to a monastery after a 2-year reign. He abdicates the Byzantine throne and appoints Constantine X, a Paphlagonian nobleman, as his successor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1271111243#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1059", "revid": 1271111243, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1092, "year_label": "1092 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Emperor Alexios I Komnenos bribes one of Kilij Arslan's (sultan of the Sultanate of Rum) officials to recover Sinope (the capital of Paphlagonia), and neighbouring coastal regions. He uses the Byzantine fleet to defeat the Seljuk navy off the coast of Cius in Bithynia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1273814679#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1092", "revid": 1273814679, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}