Bosporan wars of expansion
| Bosporan wars of expansion | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Sindoi Maeotians Ixomatae Dandarioi Psessoi |
Spartocids Panticapaeum Scythians Arcadian Mercenaries |
Athens Nymphaeum Kimmerikon |
Heraclea Pontica Theodosia Chersonesus | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Tirgatao Oktamasades |
Spartokos I † Satyros I † Selekuos † Leukon I Gorgippos Hekataios Metrodos † Sopaios | Gylon of Cerameis |
Clearchus Tynnichus Memnon | ||||||
The Bosporan Kingdom waged a series of wars of expansion in the Cimmerian Bosporus and the surrounding territories from around 438 BC until about 355 BC. Bosporan expansion began after Spartokos I, the first Spartocid (and after whom the dynasty is named) took power and during his seven-year reign, established an aggressive expansionist foreign policy that was followed by his successors.