| Syria became a Roman Province in 64 BC courtesy of Pompey the Great, following the third Mithridatic war. |
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| The massacre was the official reason given for the commencement of hostilities in the First Mithridatic War. |
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| The Second Mithridatic War began when Rome tried to annex a province that Mithridates claimed as his own. |
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| They were finally freed by the Mithridatic Wars, during which they supported Rome. |
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| In the Third Mithridatic War, first Lucius Licinius Lucullus and then Pompey the Great were sent against Mithridates and his Armenian ally Tigranes the Great. |
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