1) Tigranes. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Tigranes I and Tigranes the Great. By an alliance with his father-in-law, Mithradates VI of Pontus, he was able to extend his conquests across Asia Minor. He founded...
2) Soli. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Alexander the Great, Soli was destroyed in the 1st cent. B.C. by Tigranes of Armenia. It was rebuilt by Pompey, who called it Pompeiopolis. The word solecism is derived...
3) Eutychides. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Greek sculptor from Sicyon; pupil of Lysippos. Records exist of several of his works, among which the best known is Tyche or Fortune, personifying the city of Antioch....
4) Lucullus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Social War under Sulla, who made him his favorite. He fought in the East (87 B.C.-85 B.C.), always loyal to Sulla, who made him curule aedile (79 B.C.) and praetor...
5) Pompey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Roman general, the rival of Julius Caesar. Sometimes called Pompey the Great, he was the son of Cnaeus Pompeius Strabo (consul in 89 B.C.), a commander of equivocal...
6) Cappadocia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Asia Minor, watered by the Halys River (the modern Kizil Irmak), in present E central Turkey. The name was applied at different times to territories of varying size....
7) Mithradates VI. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Black Sea coast beyond the Caucasus. The increasing importance of Rome in Asia Minor brought Mithradates and the republic into open conflict. The First Mithradatic...
8) Damascus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Arabic Dimashq or ash-Sham, city (1995 est. pop. 1,500,000), capital of Syria and of its Damascus governorate, SW Syria, on the eastern edge of the Anti-Lebanon Mts....
9) Armenia, country, Asia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Republic of Armenia, republic (1995 est. pop. 3,557,000), 11,500 sq mi (29,785 sq km), in the S Caucasus. Armenia is bounded by Turkey on the west, Azerbaijan on...
10) Syria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Syrian Arab Republic, republic (1995 est. pop. 15,452,000), 71,467 sq mi (185,100 sq km), W Asia. It borders on Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea in the west, on...
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