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Archelaus Sisines
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Archelaus

king of Cappadocia
Also known as: Archelaus Sisines
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Archelaus (died ad 17) was the last king of Cappadocia (reigned 36 bc–c. ad 17), a Roman client during the late republic and the early empire.

Although granted the kingdom by Mark Antony, Archelaus retained his crown by making peace with Octavian (later the emperor Augustus) after Antony’s defeat at the Battle of Actium (31 bc). In 20 bc Augustus added eastern Lycaonia and parts of Cilicia to his domain. Archelaus’s marriage to King Polemo’s widow, a granddaughter of Mark Antony, gave him indirect control of most of Pontus, an ancient district of northeastern Anatolia adjoining the Black Sea. On the accession of Tiberius (ad 14), whom he had earlier offended, Archelaus was summoned to Rome, accused in the Senate, and deprived of his throne. After his death in 17, Cappadocia was made a Roman province.

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