Iberia Caucasica

In the course of the war against Mithridates VI of Pontus, the Romans advanced into the territories in the isthmus between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea in the first century BCE. In the central part of the region, south of the Greater Caucasus, lay the kingdom of Iberia (modern eastern Georgia), which thereafter became a target of attention for both Roman and Persian interests and was involved in ...