Pompey’s Eastern campaigns
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Pompey’s Eastern campaigns were a series of mid-1st century BCE Roman military and diplomatic operations through Asia Minor, the Levant, and surrounding regions that dismantled rival powers, expanded Roman territory, and reshaped the political order of the eastern Mediterranean.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pompey evacuated his army by sea | 1 |
| Pompey's campaign in Greece | 1 |
| Pompey’s Eastern campaigns canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Pompey’s Eastern campaigns Context triple: [Roman intervention of Pompey in 63 BCE, partOf, Pompey’s Eastern campaigns]
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Galilean campaign of Vespasian
The Galilean campaign of Vespasian was the Roman military offensive in northern Judea during the First Jewish–Roman War, in which General (later Emperor) Vespasian systematically subdued Galilee.
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Parthian campaigns of Septimius Severus
The Parthian campaigns of Septimius Severus were a series of early 3rd-century Roman military expeditions in Mesopotamia that expanded imperial control and culminated in the capture and sacking of the Parthian capital Ctesiphon.
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Roman campaigns against the Bruttii
Roman campaigns against the Bruttii were a series of military operations in the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BC through which the Roman Republic subdued the Bruttian tribes and consolidated its control over the toe of the Italian peninsula.
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Mutina campaign
The Mutina campaign was a key episode in the late Roman Republic’s civil wars, centered on the 43 BC battles around Mutina between the forces of Mark Antony and the senatorial armies supporting the young Octavian.
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Carthaginian campaigns in Hispania
The Carthaginian campaigns in Hispania were a series of military and political operations led chiefly by the Barcid family to expand and consolidate Carthaginian power on the Iberian Peninsula in the decades before the Second Punic War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Pompey’s Eastern campaigns Target entity description: Pompey’s Eastern campaigns were a series of mid-1st century BCE Roman military and diplomatic operations through Asia Minor, the Levant, and surrounding regions that dismantled rival powers, expanded Roman territory, and reshaped the political order of the eastern Mediterranean.
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A.
Galilean campaign of Vespasian
The Galilean campaign of Vespasian was the Roman military offensive in northern Judea during the First Jewish–Roman War, in which General (later Emperor) Vespasian systematically subdued Galilee.
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B.
Parthian campaigns of Septimius Severus
The Parthian campaigns of Septimius Severus were a series of early 3rd-century Roman military expeditions in Mesopotamia that expanded imperial control and culminated in the capture and sacking of the Parthian capital Ctesiphon.
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C.
Roman campaigns against the Bruttii
Roman campaigns against the Bruttii were a series of military operations in the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BC through which the Roman Republic subdued the Bruttian tribes and consolidated its control over the toe of the Italian peninsula.
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D.
Mutina campaign
The Mutina campaign was a key episode in the late Roman Republic’s civil wars, centered on the 43 BC battles around Mutina between the forces of Mark Antony and the senatorial armies supporting the young Octavian.
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E.
Carthaginian campaigns in Hispania
The Carthaginian campaigns in Hispania were a series of military and political operations led chiefly by the Barcid family to expand and consolidate Carthaginian power on the Iberian Peninsula in the decades before the Second Punic War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
1st-century BCE military campaign
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Roman military campaign ⓘ |
| chronologicallyOverlaps | late stages of the Third Mithridatic War ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Mithridatic Wars with Rome
ⓘ
surface form:
Appian’s Mithridatic Wars
Life of Pompey ⓘ
surface form:
Plutarch’s Life of Pompey
|
| hasCommander |
Pompey the Great
ⓘ
surface form:
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
|
| hasEndTime | 62 BCE ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Annexation of Syria
ⓘ
Roman reconquest of Armenia ⓘ
surface form:
Campaign against Tigranes II of Armenia
Hasmonean civil war ⓘ
surface form:
Intervention in Judea
Operations in the Caucasus ⓘ Pompey’s war against the pirates ⓘ Third Mithridatic War ⓘ
surface form:
Third Mithridatic War (Pompeian phase)
|
| hasParticipant | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| hasStartTime | 67 BCE ⓘ |
| involves |
battle of Lycus (66 BCE)
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campaign in Albania (Caucasian Albania) ⓘ campaign in Armenia (66–65 BCE) ⓘ campaign in Colchis and Iberia ⓘ Siege of Jerusalem (63 BCE) ⓘ
surface form:
siege of Jerusalem (63 BCE)
|
| ledTo |
long-term Roman hegemony over Hellenistic East
ⓘ
rise of Pompey’s prestige in Roman politics ⓘ vast increase in Roman revenues from the East ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Lex Manilia ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Cilician pirates
ⓘ
Hasmonean civil war ⓘ
surface form:
Hasmonean factions in Judea
Kingdom of Armenia ⓘ Kingdom of Pontus ⓘ Mithridates VI Eupator ⓘ
surface form:
Mithridates VI of Pontus
Seleucid remnants in Syria ⓘ Tigranes the Great ⓘ
surface form:
Tigranes II of Armenia
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| partOf | late Roman Republic expansion in the East ⓘ |
| precededBy | Lucullus’s campaigns against Mithridates VI ⓘ |
| result |
Roman intervention in Judean succession dispute
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annexation of Syria as a Roman province ⓘ creation of new client kingdoms ⓘ defeat of Mithridates VI of Pontus ⓘ establishment of Roman supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean ⓘ expansion of Roman provincial system in the East ⓘ extension of Roman influence to the Caucasus ⓘ pacification of the eastern Mediterranean from piracy ⓘ reorganization of Asia Minor ⓘ submission of Tigranes II of Armenia ⓘ |
| tookPlaceIn |
Asia Minor
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Caucasus region ⓘ Cilicia ⓘ Judea ⓘ Levant region ⓘ
surface form:
Levant
Pontus ⓘ Syria ⓘ Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
surface form:
eastern Mediterranean
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Pompey's campaign in Greece
this entity surface form:
Pompey evacuated his army by sea