Mithridates Eupator ve Nikomedes Euergetes’in Paphlagonia ve Kappadokia Politikaları: İlişkiler, Evlilikler ve Etkileşim

Year 2018, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 12 - 47, 30.12.2018

Ali Bora

https://doi.org/10.30804/cesmicihan.498139

Cited By: 2

Abstract

Mithridates
Eupator ve Nikomedes Euergetes’in Paphlagonia ve Kappadokia Politikaları:
İlişkiler, Evlilikler ve Etkileşim

 

Öz: Çalışmanın konusunu MÖ. 2. yüzyıl sonları ile MÖ. 1.
yüzyılın ikinci çeyreğine kadar olan dönemde Pontos ile Bithynia Krallıkları
arasındaki ilişkiler oluşturmaktadır. Mithridates VI Eupator’un batıya,
Nikomedes III Euergetes’in doğuya doğru genişleme stratejilerinin uygulamaya
konduğu bir süreçte gelişmeye başlayan etkileşim, her iki Hellenistik Krallığın
Paphlagonia ve Kappadokia Bölgeleri üzerinde yoğunlaştıkları ve Roma’nın
Provincia Asia tasarruflarının ardından Anadolu yerel krallıklarının iç
işlerine fiili müdahalesine işaret etmektedir. Mithridates Eupator, Nikomedes
Euergetes ve Nikomedes Philopator arasında kökenleri Pontos’a dayanan
Kappadokia saray mensupları, Prenses Nysa ve Kraliçe Laodike aracılığıyla
kurulan bağların ardında yatan ekonomik, siyasal ve kişisel eğilimlerden
kaynaklanan nedenler, kraliyet mensupları arasındaki evlilik bağları, antik
diplomasi ve bölge arkeolojisi desteğinde irdelenmeye çalışılmaktadır. MÖ. 2.
yüzyılın sonralarında Paphlagonia ve Kappadokia’nın gerek siyasi ve gerekse
bölgesel anlamda edilgen durumunun Pontos ve Bithynia açısından önemli bir
avantaj oluşturduğu ortama Senatus’un müdahil oluşu ve Anadolu’da birbirleriyle
mücadele içerisindeki bu güçlerin beklentileri, başta yöneticilerin ve ardından
krallıkların kariyerlerini ve kaderlerini belirlemiş gibi görünmektedir.
Hanedanlar arasında gönüllü ya da gönülsüz olarak gerçekleştirilen evlilikler
kimi zaman ittifaklara kimi zaman ise ciddi çatışmalara yol açmış, her iki
durumda da Paphlagonia ve Kappadokia, Mithridates Eupator ve Nikomedes
Euergetes arasında önemli roller üstlenmiştir. Pontos ve Bithynia Krallıkları
bakımından çekiciliğini hiç bir zaman kaybetmeyen bu bölgeler, ortama Roma’nın dahil
oluşuyla birlikte sonlarının da en önemli sebebini meydana getirecek ve iki
krallık MÖ. 1. yüzyılın ikinci çeyreğinde yok olurlarken aralarındaki bağların
en son temsilcileri olan Orsabaris, Lykomedes ve Orodaltis isimleri, yakında
birleştirilerek yeniden düzenlenecek olan Bithynia et Pontus Eyaleti’nde
yankılanacaktır.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Bithynia, Pontos, Paphlagonia, Kappadokia, Bithynia
Arkeolojisi, Evlilik İttifakları.

Keywords

Bithynia, Pontos, Paphlagonia, Kappadokia, Bithynia Arkeolojisi

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