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Region of Asia Minor, east of Phrygia and west of the River Euphrates. From the middle of the 6th cent. BC until the end of the 4th cent. BC it was a satrapy of the Persian Empire. During the Hellenistic period it belonged administratively to the two kingdoms of Great Cappadocia and Cappadocia next to Pontus. In the 1st cent. BC the northern part was named Pontus. In the 1st cent. AD it became part of the Roman Empire and was organized into a province. |
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