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Third Mithridatic War

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BelligerentsRoman Republic
Bithynia
Galatia
CyzicusKingdom of Pontus
Kingdom of Armenia
Kingdom of Iberia
Caucasian Albania
SarmatiansCommanders and leadersLucullus
Marcus Aurelius Cotta
PompeyMithridates VI of Pontus
Tigranes II of Armenia
Oroeses of Albania
Artoces of Iberia
Marcus Marius/Varius

The Third Mithridatic War (73–63 BC), the last and longest of the three Mithridatic Wars, was fought between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman Republic. Both sides were joined by a great number of allies, dragging the entire east of the and large parts of Asia (Asia Minor, Greater Armenia, northern Mesopotamia and the Levant) into the war. The conflict ended in defeat for Mithridates; it ended the Pontic Kingdom and the Seleucid Empire (by then a rump state), and also resulted in the Kingdom of Armenia becoming an allied client state of Rome.