Zipoetes I, also Zipoites I or Ziboetes I, possibly Tiboetes I (
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: Zιπoίτης or Zιβoίτης; lived c. 354 BC – 278 BC, ruled c. 326 BC – 278 BC) was a
ruler of Bithynia.
Life
He succeeded his father
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on the throne in about 326 BC and reigned for forty-eight years, waging successful wars with
Lysimachus and
Antiochus, the son of
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucus I Nicator (; ; grc-gre, Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ , ) was a Macedonian Greek general who was an officer and successor ( ''diadochus'') of Alexander the Great. Seleucus was the founder of the eponymous Seleucid Empire. In the po ...
. In 315 BC he waged war against
Astacus and
Chalcedon
Chalcedon ( or ; , sometimes transliterated as ''Chalkedon'') was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor. It was located almost directly opposite Byzantium, south of Scutari (modern Üsküdar) and it is now a district of the cit ...
, which failed in the face of a relief army sent by
Antigonus I Monophthalmus. In 301, after Antigonus' death, he attacked again, and was victorious, but Astacus was destroyed in the war. He founded a city which was called Zipoetium (after himself) at the foot of Mount Lypedron; the exact locations of both the city and the mountain are unknown.
He lived to around the age of seventy-six, and left behind him four children, the eldest of whom,
Nicomedes, succeeded him. He was the first ruler of Bithyinia to assume the title of ''
basileus'' (king), assuming this title in the year 297 BC. His successors adopted this date as the first year of the
Bithynian calendar, which was used in some places as late as the 5th century AD.
[Cohen 1996, p. 61]
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4th-century BC births
278 BC deaths
Dynasts of Bithynia
Kings of Bithynia
3rd-century BC Kings of Bithynia
4th-century BC rulers