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FILTER strStarts(str(?uri), "http://nomisma.org/") .
?uri skos:prefLabel ?label FILTER langMatches(lang(?label), "en") .
OPTIONAL {?uri skos:definition ?definition FILTER langMatches(lang(?definition), "en")}
?uri rdf:type ?type FILTER (str(?type) != "http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept")

FILTER NOT EXISTS {?uri dcterms:isReplacedBy ?replaced}
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Kingdom of Elymais

Definition: Elymais or Elamais was a semi-independent state of the 2nd century BC to the early 3rd century AD, frequently a vassal under Parthian control, and located at the head of the Persian Gulf in the present-day region of Khuzestan, Iran (Susiana).
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Egypt

Definition: Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under Menes (often identified with Narmer). The history of ancient Egypt occurred as a series of stable kingdoms, separated by periods of relative instability known as Intermediate Periods: the Old Kingdom of the Early Bronze Age, the Middle Kingdom of the Middle Bronze Age and the New Kingdom of the Late Bronze Age.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Cos

Definition: Kos or Cos (Greek: Κως [kos]) is a city on the Greek island of the same name, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Mauretania

Definition: The Kingdom of Mauritania comprised primarily the ethnic Mauri (Moors) in northwest Africa. The kingdom ruled autonomously at least as early at 225 B.C. Mauritania became a client-state of Rome in the second century B.C. and was later annexed in A.D. 44 under Claudius and split into two Roman provinces.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Teuthrania

Definition: Teuthrania was a town in the western part of ancient Mysia, and the name of its district about the river Caicus, which was believed to be derived from a legendary Mysian king Teuthras.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Lydia

Definition: An Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish provinces of Uşak, Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian. Its capital was Sardis.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus

Definition: The Bosporan Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, was an ancient Greco-Scythian state located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus, the present-day Strait of Kerch.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Byblus

Definition: Byblus was a Phoenician city-state. It was one of four client-states in Phoenicia belonging to the Achaemenid Empire.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Sidon

Definition: The city-state of Sidon in Phoenicia, once part of a broader kindom, later served as a client-state to the Achaemenids, Seleucids, and was later integrated into the Roman Empire.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Audumbaras

Definition: The Audumbras, or Audumbaras were a north Indian tribal nation east of the Punjab, in the Western Himalaya region. They were the most important tribe of the Himachal, and lived in the lower hills between Sirmaur, Chamba and Yamuna. They issued coinage from the 1st century BCE, when they seemingly gained independence from the Indo-Greeks. The silver coins of the Kunindas, the Vemakas and the Audumbaras closely follow the coins of Apollodotus II in their characteristics (weight, size and material).
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Sardis

Definition: Sardis or Sardes was an ancient city in Lydia at the location of modern Sart.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Soli, Cyprus

Definition: Soli or Soloi (Greek: Σόλοι) is an ancient Greek city in the island of Cyprus, located southwest of Morphou (Guzelyurt), and on the coast in the gulf of Morphou and dates back to about the 6th century BC.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Mleiha

Definition: An ancient Eastern Arabian kingdom that existed at the modern city of Mleiha, in the United Arab Emirates. Archaeological remains indicate a fortified compound was founded here by 300 B.C. Macedonian-style coinage unearthed at Ed-Dur dates back to Alexander the Great. Hundreds of coins were found both there and at Mleiha featuring a head of Heracles and a seated Zeus on the obverse, and bearing the name of Abi'el in Aramaic. These coins match moulds found at Mleiha which, together with finds of slag at the site, suggests the existence of a metallurgical centre.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Colchis

Definition: Kingdom located on the coast of the Black Sea, centred in present-day western Georgia, formed by the Roman general Pompey as part of his settlement of Asia during the Mithridatic Wars.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Himyarite Kingdom

Definition: The Ḥimyarite Kingdom (fl. 110 BCE–520s CE), historically referred to as the Homerite Kingdom by the Greeks and the Romans, was a kingdom in ancient Yemen. Established in 110 BCE, it took as its capital the ancient city of Zafar, to be followed at the beginning of the 4th century by what is the modern-day city of Sana'a.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Vemaka

Definition: The Vemaka were an ancient Indian tribe, located north of the larger tribe of the Kuninda in northern India. Their coinage employs the same characteristics of those of the Indo-Greek king, Apollodotus II.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Cilicia

Definition: Kingdom in Cilicia formed by the elevation of Tarcondimotus to royal status by Mark Antony in 39 BC
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Massylii

Definition: The Massylii or Maesulians were a Berber federation of tribes in eastern Numidia, which was formed by an amalgamation of smaller tribes during the 4th century BC. They were ruled by a king. On their loosely defined western frontier were the powerful Masaesyli. To their east, lay the territory of the rich and powerful Carthaginian Republic. After the Roman victory in the Second Punic War, the independent kingdoms of the Massylii and Masaesyli were combined into a unified Kingdom of Numidia.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Nabataean Kingdom

Definition: The Nabataean Kingdom (Arabic: المملكة النبطية‎, romanized: al-Mamlakah an-Nabaṭiyyah), also named Nabatea, was a political state of the Arab Nabataeans during classical antiquity. The Nabataean Kingdom controlled much of the trade routes of the region, amassing large wealth and drawing the envy of its neighbors. It stretched south along the Red Sea coast into the Hejaz, up as far north as Damascus, which it controlled for a short period (85–71 BC). Nabataea remained independent from the 4th century BC until it was annexed in AD 106 by the Roman Empire, which renamed it Arabia Petraea.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Qataban

Definition: Qataban or Katabania was an ancient Yemeni kingdom. Its heartland was located in the Baihan valley. Like some other Southern Arabian kingdoms it gained great wealth from the trade of frankincense and myrrh, incenses which were burned at altars. The capital of Qataban was named Timna and was located on the trade route which passed through the other kingdoms of Hadramaut, Sheba and Ma'in. The chief deity of the Qatabanians was 'Amm, or "Uncle" and the people called themselves the "children of Amm".
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Elis

Definition: Elis (Ancient Greek: Ἦλις, Doric Greek: Ἆλις, in the local dialect: Ϝᾶλις, Modern Greek: Ήλιδα, romanized: Elida) was a polis (city-state) and the capital city of the ancient district of Elis, in ancient Greece. It was situated in the northwest of the Peloponnese, to the west of Arcadia.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Satrapy of Hyrcania

Definition: The region served as a satrapy (province) of the Median Empire, a sub-province of the Achaemenid Empire, and a province within its successors, the Seleucid, Arsacid and Sasanian empires. Hyrcania bordered Parthia to the east (later known as Abarshahr), Dihistan to the north, Media to the south and Mardia to the west. After the fall of the Sasanian Empire in 651 AD, Hyrcania was known as Tabaristan.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Syracuse

Definition: The city of Syracuse in Sicily. Home to a number of tyrants in the 5th and 4th centuries BC.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Characene

Definition: Characene, also known as Mesene or Meshan, was a state founded by the Iranian Hyspaosines within the Parthian Empire located at the head of the Persian Gulf. Its capital, Charax Spasinou (Χάραξ Σπασινού), was an important port for trade between Mesopotamia and India, and also provided port facilities for the city of Susa further up the Karun River.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kuninda Kingdom

Definition: The Kingdom of Kuninda (or Kulinda in ancient literature) was an ancient central Himalayan kingdom documented from around the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century, located in the modern state of Uttarakhand and southern areas of Himachal in northern India.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Commagene

Definition: The Kingdom of Commagene was an ancient Armenian kingdom of the Hellenistic period, located in and around the ancient city of Samosata, which served as its capital. Commagene has been characterized as a "buffer state" between Armenia, Parthia, Syria, and Rome; culturally, it was correspondingly mixed. The kings of the Kingdom of Commagene claimed descent from Orontes with Darius I of Persia. It was later absorbed into the Roman Empire.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Satrapy of Armenia

Definition: The Satrapy of Armenia (Armenian: Սատրապական Հայաստան Satrapakan Hayastan; Old Persian: Armina or Arminiya, a region controlled by the Orontid Dynasty (Armenian: Երվանդունիներ Yervanduniner; 570–201 BC) was one of the satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC, which later became an independent kingdom. Its capitals were Tushpa and later Erebuni.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Tylis

Definition: Tylis (Greek: Τύλις) or Tyle was a short-lived Balkan Kingdom mentioned by Polybius that was founded by Celts led by Comontorius in the 3rd century BC. Following their invasion of Thrace and Greece in 279 BC, the Gauls were defeated by the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas in the Battle of Lysimachia in 277 BC, after which they turned inland to Thrace and founded their kingdom at Tylis. It was located near the eastern edge of the Haemus (Balkan) Mountains in what is now eastern Bulgaria.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Numidia

Definition: Numidia (202 BC – 40 BC, Berber: Inumiden) was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians located in what is now Algeria and a smaller part of Tunisia and small part of Libya in the Maghreb. The polity was originally divided between Massylii in the east and Masaesyli in the west. During the Second Punic War (218–201 BC), Masinissa, king of the Massylii, defeated Syphax of the Masaesyli to unify Numidia into one kingdom.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Satrapy of Paphlagonia

Definition: Satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire in Paphlagonia centred on Sinope.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Mathura

Definition: Mathura is an ancient city in northern India who had been ruled an independent city-state by the Indo-Scythians after their invasion of the region around 60 B.C. It had previously been under the dominion of Indian kings and the Indo-Greek Kingdom.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Marium

Definition: The city of Marium in Cyprus, ruled over the the classical period by a series of kings.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Aradus

Definition: Aradus (Aynuk) was a Phoenician city-state. It was one of four client-states in Phoenicia belonging to the Achaemenid Empire.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Mylasa

Definition: Ancient city in Caria.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Roman Empire

Definition: The empire ruled by the ancient city of Rome.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Athens

Definition: Athens (Greek: Αθήνα, romanized: Athína; Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, romanized: Athênai (pl.))was a powerful city-state that emerged in Attica in conjunction with the seagoing development of the port of Piraeus. A center for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely because of its cultural and political impact on the European continent, and in particular the Romans.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Pherae

Definition: Pherae (Greek: Φεραί) was a city and polis (city-state)[1] in southeastern Ancient Thessaly. One of the oldest Thessalian cities, it was located in the southeast corner of Pelasgiotis. According to Strabo, it was near Lake Boebeïs 90 stadia from Pagasae, its harbor on the Gulf of Pagasae (Geography 9.5). The site is in the modern community of Velestino.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Odrysian Thrace

Definition: The Odrysian Kingdom (Ancient Greek: Βασίλειον Ὀδρυσῶν; Latin: Regnum Odrysium) was a state union of over 40 Thracian tribes and 22 kingdoms that existed between the 5th century BC and the 1st century AD. It consisted mainly of present-day Bulgaria, spreading to parts of Southeastern Romania (Northern Dobruja), parts of Northern Greece and parts of modern-day European Turkey.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Caeni

Definition: Kainoi (Greek: Καινοί) or Caeni is the name of a Thracian tribe, mentioned by the Roman historian Livy, and ruled in the late 2nd cent. by Mostis, known from coins.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Sapaean Thrace

Definition: Sapaeans, Sapaei or Sapaioi (Ancient Greek, "Σαπαίοι") were a Thracian tribe close to the Greek city of Abdera. One of their kings was named Abrupolis and had allied himself with the Romans. They ruled Thrace after the Odrysians until its incorporation by the Roman Empire as a province.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Lapethus

Definition: Lapathus (Phoenician: 𐤋‬𐤐‬𐤈, lpṭ; Greek: Λάπαθος, Lápathos), also recorded as Lapethus (Λάπηθος, Lápēthos), Lepethis (Ληπηθίς, Lēpēthís), and Lapithus (Λάπιθος, Lápithos), was an ancient Cypriot town near present-day Lampousa and Karavas.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Salamis

Definition: Salamis is an ancient Greek city-state on the east coast of Cyprus.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Idalium

Definition: Idalion or Idalium (Greek: Ιδάλιον, Idalion) was an ancient city in Cyprus, in modern Dali, Nicosia District.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Gandhara (Indo-Greek Kingdom)

Definition: The historical region of Gandhara in the Peshawar basic of modern Pakistan-Afghanistan was ruled for a period by Indo-Scythian kings following the fragmentation of the eastern fringes of Greek Bactrian and Indo-Greek rule in the region upon the incursion of the Parthian Empire ca. 50 B.C. Gandhara was ruled by several Indo-Scythian kings from approximately 50-10 B.C., before the region was absorbed into the Kushan Empire.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Citium

Definition: Kition (Greek: Κίτιον, Kítion; Punic: 𐤊‬𐤕‬, kt, or 𐤊‬𐤕𐤉, kty), also known by its Latin name Citium, was a city-kingdom on the southern coast of Cyprus (in present-day Larnaca).
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Indo-Greek Kingdoms

Definition: The Indo-Greek kingdoms were a series of kingdoms spanning modern-day Afghanistan, into the classical regions of the Punjab of the Indian subcontinent (northern Pakistan and northwestern India), during the last two centuries BCE and were ruled by more than thirty kings, often ruling contemporaneously. The state of the evidence does not currently allow modern scholarship to state securely which ruler succeeded which and where exactly their respective dominions are to be localised. The period of the kingdoms drew to a close ca. 10 CE after the joint reigns of Strato II and Strato III and the rise of the Kushan Empire in India.
Type: Group, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Thrace

Definition: The kingdom based in Thrace, ruled by Lysimachus after the death of Alexander the Great.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kushan Empire

Definition: The Kushan Empire was a syncretic empire, formed by the Yuezhi, in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century. It spread to encompass much of Afghanistan, and then the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Macedonia (Roman province)

Definition: The Roman province of Macedonia (Latin: Provincia Macedoniae, Greek: Ἐπαρχία Μακεδονίας) was officially established in 146 BC, after the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus defeated Andriscus of Macedon, the last self-styled King of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia in 148 BC, and after the four client republics (the "tetrarchy") established by Rome in the region were dissolved. The province incorporated the former kingdom of Macedonia with the addition of Epirus, Thessaly, and parts of Illyria, Paeonia and Thrace. This created a much larger administrative area, to which the name of 'Macedonia' was still applied.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Telmessus

Definition: Telmessos or Telmessus was the largest city in Lycia, near the Carian border. Telmessus was a member of the Delian League in the 5th century BC. It was taken by Alexander in 334 BC, and subsequently remained semi-independent as a client-state of the Ptolemaic and Seleucid kingdoms until its absorption into a Roman province.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Ephesus

Definition: Ephesus (Ancient Greek: Ἔφεσος Efesos; Turkish: Efes; Hittite Apasa) was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, three kilometres southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Pergamum

Definition: Pergamon (Ancient Greek: τὸ Πέργαμον), or Pergamum, sometimes referred to by the modern Greek form Pergamos (Modern Greek: ἡ Πέργαμος), was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Mysia.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Scythia Minor

Definition: The kingdom of Scythia Minor or Lesser Scythia (Greek: Μικρά Σκυθία, romanized: Mikra Skythia) was in ancient times the region surrounded by the Danube at the north and west and the Black Sea at the east, roughly corresponding to today's Dobruja, with a part in Romania, and a part in Bulgaria.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Parthian Empire

Definition: The Parthian Empire (247 BC – 224 AD), also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran. It was formed in the mid-3rd century B.C. when Arsaces I rebelled against the Seleucid Empire. The Parthians were Rome's chief rival in the east for three centuries until the empire's eventual collapse in A.D. 224 when Shapur of Persis revolted and formed a new Sasanian dynasty in the Middle East and Persia.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Gambrium

Definition: Gambrium or Gambrion (Ancient Greek: Γάμβριον and Γάμβρειον), also Gambreium or Gambreion (Γάμβρειον), was a town of ancient Aeolis and of Mysia, quite close to Pergamum. Its location is near Kınık and Bergama in İzmir province, in the Aegean Region of Turkey.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Cyrene

Definition: Kingdom based in Cyrenaica (Arabic: برقة‎, romanized: Barqah; Koinē Greek: Κυρηναϊκή [ἐπαρχία], romanized: Kurēnaïkḗ [eparkhíā], after the city of Cyrene), the eastern coastal region of Libya. Also known as Pentapolis ("Five Cities") in antiquity, it formed part of the Roman province of Crete and Cyrenaica, later divided into Libya Pentapolis and Libya Sicca. During the Islamic period, the area came to be known as Barqa, after the city of Barca.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Illyria

Definition: In classical antiquity, Illyria (Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυρία, Illyría or Ἰλλυρίς, Illyrís; Latin: Illyria, see also: Illyricum) was a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by numerous tribes of people collectively known as the Illyrians.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Sophene

Definition: The Kingdom of Sophene was an ancient Armenian kingdom. Founded around the 3rd century BC the kingdom maintained independence until around 90 BC when Tigranes the Great conquered the territories as part of his empire. An offshoot of this kingdom was the Kingdom of Commagene, formed when the Seleucids detached Commagene from Sophene.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Satrapy of Egypt

Definition: The Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXVII, alternatively 27th Dynasty or Dynasty 27), also known as the First Egyptian Satrapy was effectively a province (satrapy) of the Achaemenid Persian Empire between 525 BC and 404 BC. It was founded by Cambyses II, the King of Persia, after his conquest of Egypt and subsequent crowning as Pharaoh of Egypt, and was disestablished upon the rebellion and crowning of Amyrtaeus as Pharaoh. A second period of Achaemenid rule in Egypt occurred under the Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt (343-332 BC).
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Akragas

Definition: Akragas; Ancient Greek: Ἀκράγας, romanized: Akragas; Latin: Agrigentum or Acragas; Arabic: Kirkent or Jirjent) was one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the golden age of Ancient Greece with population estimates in the range of 200,000 to 800,000 before 406 BC.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Hagar

Definition: The kingdom of Hagar was situated in northern Arabia, perhaps at the modern ruin known as Dumat al-Jandal.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Yehud Medinata

Definition: Yehud Medinata (Aramaic for the State of Judah/Jews), or simply Yehud, was an autonomous state of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, roughly equivalent to the older kingdom of Judah but covering a smaller area, within the satrapy of Eber-Nari. It was later incorporated into the Hellenistic provinces of Alexander the Great and his successors.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Chalcis

Definition: Chalcis was a small ancient Iturean majority kingdom situated in the Beqaa Valley, named for and originally based from the city of the same name. The ancient city of Chalcis (a.k.a. Chalcis sub Libanum, Chalcis of Coele-Syria was located midway between Berytus and Damascus. It was founded by Ptolemaeus, son of Menneus, an Ituraean dynast in about 85 B.C. as Seleucid influence diminished, but it became a Roman client-state ca. 60 B.C. under Pompey. It was absorbed into the Roman province of Syria in A.D. 92.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Osroene

Definition: Osroene, also spelled Osroëne and Osrhoene and sometimes known by the name of its capital city, Edessa, was a historical kingdom in Upper Mesopotamia, which was ruled by the Abgarid dynasty of Arab origin. Generally allied with the Parthians, the Kingdom of Osroene enjoyed semi-autonomy to complete independence from the years of 132 BC to AD 214.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Kingdom of Judaea

Definition: The Kingdom of Judaea was established in 143 B.C. following a revolt against the Seleucid Empire, establishing a reign of two major dynasties in Judaea. By the second century B.C., the kingdom became a tributory state of the Roman Republic, ruling semi-autonomously within the confines of the Roman province of Judaea. The last king of Judaea was Simon bar Kokhba, whose revolt in the province was put down in A.D. 135.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Mamertines

Definition: The Mamertines (Latin: Mamertini, "sons of Mars", Greek: Μαμερτῖνοι) were mercenaries of Italian origin who had been hired from their home in Campania by Agathocles (361 – 289 BC), Tyrant of Syracuse and self-proclaimed King of Sicily.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Heracleia Pontica

Definition: Heraclea Pontica (Greek: Ἡράκλεια Ποντική, romanized: Hērakleia Pontikē), in Byzantine and later times known as Pontoheraclea (Greek: Ποντοηράκλεια, romanized: Pontohērakleia), was an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor, at the mouth of the river Lycus. It was founded by the Greek city-state of Megara in approximately 560–558 and was named after Heracles whom the Greeks believed entered the underworld at a cave on the adjoining Archerusian promontory (Cape Baba). The site is now the location of the modern city Karadeniz Ereğli, in the Zonguldak Province of Turkey.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Magnesia on the Maeander

Definition: Magnesia or Magnesia on the Maeander (Ancient Greek: Μαγνησία ἡ πρὸς Μαιάνδρῳ or Μαγνησία ἡ ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ; Latin: Magnḗsĭa ad Mæándrum) was an ancient Greek city in Ionia, considerable in size, at an important location commercially and strategically in the triangle of Priene, Ephesus and Tralles.
Type: Organization, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Eucratides II of Bactria

Definition: Eucratides II was a Graeco-Bactrian king who ruled in the mid second century BCE.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Demetrius III of Bactria

Definition: Demetrius III Aniketos is an Indo-Greek king
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Pharnaces II of Pontus

Definition: Pharnaces II of Pontus, also known as Pharnaces II was the king of the Bosporan Kingdom until his death. He was a monarch of Persian and Greek Macedonian ancestry. He was the youngest child born to King Mithridates VI of Pontus from his first wife, his sister Queen Laodice.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Orodes V of Elymais

Definition: Orodes V (c. 170–c. 180 AD) son of Beldusa and king of Elymais.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Artaxias II of Armenia

Definition: Artaxias II, also known as Artaxes II and Artashes was a Prince of the Kingdom of Armenia, member of the Artaxiad Dynasty and King of Armenia from 34 BC until 20 BC.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Heliocles II of Bactria

Definition: Heliocles II Dikaios is an Indo-Greek king, ruling at the same time as Strato I and Agathocleia.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Telephus of Bactria

Definition: Telephos Euergetes was a late Indo-Greek king who seems to have been one of the weak and brief successors of Maues. Bopearachchi dates Telephos between 75–70 B.C. and places him in Gandhara.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Andriscus of Macedon

Definition: Andriscus, also often referenced as Pseudo-Philip, was the last King of Macedon (r. 149–148 BC). A pretender, who claimed to be the son of Perseus of Macedon, he was a fuller from Adramyttium in Aeolis in western Anatolia. His reign lasted just one year and was toppled by the Roman Republic during the Fourth Macedonian War.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Syllaeus of Nabataea

Definition: Syllaeus was the chief minister of Obodas III. Following the death of Obodas, he was brought to Rome and thrown from the Tarpeian Rock as Aretas IV inherited the throne of Nabataea.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Deiotarus of Galatia

Definition: Deiotarus of Galatia (surnamed Philoromaios; c. 105 BC – 42 BC, 41 BC or 40 BC) was a Chief Tetrarch of the Tolistobogii in western Galatia, Asia Minor, and a King of Galatia.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Timoleon

Definition: Timoleon (Greek: Τιμολέων), son of Timodemus, of Corinth (c. 411–337 BC) was a Greek statesman and general. As a brilliant general, a champion of Greece against Carthage, and a fighter against despotism, he is closely connected with the history of Sicily, especially Syracuse.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Antonia Tryphaena

Definition: Antonia Tryphaena also known as Tryphaena of Thrace or Tryphaena (her name in Greek: η Άντωνία Τρύφαινα or Τρυφαίνη, 10 BC – 55) was a Roman Client Queen of Pontus.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Ptolemy of Mauretania

Definition: Ptolemy of Mauretania was the last Roman client king and ruler of Mauretania for Rome. He was a member of the Berber Massyles tribe of Numidia; via his mother Cleopatra Selene II, he was also a member of Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Pharzoius of Scythia

Definition: Pharzoius was a Scythian king who seems to have struck coinage at Olbia in Thrace in the Flavian period
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Calliope of Bactria

Definition: Calliope was most likely a princess of the Indo-Greek Kingdom whose portrait appeared on the coinage of Hermaeus
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Tissaphernes

Definition: Tissaphernes (Ancient Greek: Τισσαφέρνης; Old Persian Čiθrafarnah > Mod. Persian Čehrfar) (445 BC – 395 BC) was a Persian soldier and statesman, Satrap of Lydia. He was a grandson of Hydarnes, one of the six conspirators who had supported the rise of Darius the Great.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Cersibaulus of Thrace

Definition: Cersibaulus, otherwise unknown ruler of Tylis in Thrace, 3rd century BC
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Tigranes V of Armenia

Definition: Tigranes V, also known as Tigran V (Greek: Τιγράνης, Armenian: Տիգրան, 16 BC–36) was a Herodian Prince who served as a Roman Client King of Armenia from the years 6 to 12.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Darayan I of Persis

Definition: Darayan I ruler of Persis under the Seleucids
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Herod of Chalcis

Definition: Herod of Chalcis (d. 48-49 AD), also known as Herod V, listed by the Jewish Encyclopedia as Herod II, was a son of Aristobulus IV, and the grandson of Herod the Great, Roman client king of Chalcis. He was the brother of Herod Agrippa I and Herodias.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Artaxias III of Armenia

Definition: Artaxias III, also known as Zeno-Artaxias, Artaxes or Artashes was a prince of the Bosporan, Pontus, Cilicia, Cappadocia and Roman Client King of Armenia.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Ozbaal of Byblus

Definition: Ruler of Byblos in the 4th century BC
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Hieron I of Syracuse

Definition: Hieron I (Greek: Ἱέρων Α΄; usually Latinized Hiero) was the son of Deinomenes, the brother of Gelon and tyrant of Syracuse in Sicily from 478 to 467 BC. In succeeding Gelon, he conspired against a third brother, Polyzelos.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Huvishka

Definition: Huvishka was the emperor of the Kushan Empire from the death of Kanishka (assumed on the best evidence available to be in 150 CE) until the succession of Vasudeva I about thirty years later. His rule was a period of consolidation for the Empire. Huvishka's territory encompassed Balkh in Bactria to Mathura in India, locations were it is known that he minted his coinage.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Siromos of Paphos

Definition: Fifith century king of Paphos in Cyprus
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Phraates II of Parthia

Definition: Phraates II was king of the Parthian Empire from 132 BC to 127 BC. He is mostly known for his attempt to reconquer Babylon.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Pakor II of Persis

Definition: Pakor II of Persis ruler of Persis under Parthia in the 1st century AD
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Cotys I of Bosporus

Definition: Tiberius Julius Cotys I Philocaesar Philoromaios Eusebes, also known as Cotys I or Kotys I was a prince and Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Epiphanes of Commagene

Definition: Gaius Julius Archelaus Antiochus Epiphanes, also known as Julius Archelaus Epiphanes; Epiphanes; Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes or simply known as Gaius was an influential prince of the Kingdom of Commagene, who lived in the 1st century.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Gaius Publilius, Roman Quaestor

Definition: Quaestor who issued coins in Macedonia, probably in the 160s BC.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Xerxes I of Persia

Definition: Xerxes I (Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 Xšayaṛša (Khshāyarsha) "ruling over heroes", Greek Ξέρξης Xérxēs; 519–465 BC), called Xerxes the Great, was the fifth king of kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia. Like his father and predecessor Darius I, he ruled the empire at its territorial apex. He ruled from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC at the hands of Artabanus, the commander of the royal bodyguard.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

Bergaeus of Thrace

Definition: Bergaios or Bergaeus (Greek: Βεργαῖος), 400 – 350 BC, was a Thracian king in the Pangaian region. He is known mainly from the several types of coins that he struck, which resemble those of Thasos. His authencity is still discussed, maybe the coins were minted by the city Berge.
Type: Person, Concept
Concept Scheme: http://nomisma.org/id/

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