Editing Asiatic Vespers (section)

===Aftermath===
Approximately 80, 000 people were killed in the massacres. Some Romans survived and fled to Rhodes, with Mithridates declaring them enemies of the state. Mithridates duly invaded Rhodes but was repelled by the skill of the Rhodian navy.

News of the genocide outraged Rome and directly led to the first direct declaration of war against Pontus by the Roman Senate. Once the concurrent Roman civil conflict had been concluded in favour of General [[Sulla|Lucius Sulla]], Roman armies crossed the Adriatic and began battling Mithridates in mainland Greece, the beginning of the Mithridatic Wars which would eventually end in the death of Mithridates and the destruction of the Kingdom of Pontus.
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[[Category:Ancient Villains]]
[[Category:Roman Time Villains]]
[[Category:Villainous Event]]
[[Category:Genocidal]]
[[Category:Mass Murderers]]
[[Category:Mutilators]]
[[Category:War Criminal]]
[[Category:Iconoclasts]]
[[Category:Barbarians]]
[[Category:Xenophobes]]
[[Category:Destroyer of Innocence]]
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