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and the Cimmerian Bosporus on the Black Sea, but his expansion westwards into Asia Minor made conflict with Rome inevitable. In 89 BC, spurred by his Roman allies, Nicomedes IV of Bithynia invaded Pontus. Mithridates defeated him and, taking advantage of Rome's preoccupation with the Social War, overran Roman Asia

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