Rhoemetalces III () was a king of the Sapaean Thracians. He was the son of
Rhescuporis II
file:Monete ellenistiche, regno di tracia, Rescuporide II, in bronzo, 12-18 dc.jpg, Coin of Rhescuporis II of Thracia
Rhescuporis II (Greek language, Greek: Ρησκούπορις) was king of the Sapaean kingdom of Thrace from 12 to 19 AD. He rul ...
. In association with his wife
Pythodoris II, (daughter of his cousin Cotys III), they were client rulers of the
Sapaean kingdom
The Thracian kingdom, also called the Sapaean kingdom, was an ancient Thracian state in the southeastern Balkans that existed from the middle of the 1st century BC to 46 AD. Succeeding the Classical and Hellenistic era Odrysian kingdom of Th ...
of
Thrace
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under the Romans from AD 38 to 46, in succession to Pythodoris' mother
Tryphaena and Pythodoris' brother
Rhoemetalces II.
Rhoemetalces III was murdered in 44 AD.
The subsequent fate of Pythodoris II is unknown; it seems he did not have any children with his cousin. Thrace became
incorporated into the Roman Empire as a
province
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.
Remetalk Point on
Livingston Island
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in the
South Shetland Islands
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,
Antarctica
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is named after him.
References
See also
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List of Thracian tribes
This is a list of ancient tribes in Thrace and Dacia () including possibly or partly Thracian or Dacian tribes, and non-Thracian or non-Dacian tribes that inhabited the lands known as Thrace and Dacia. A great number of Ancient Greek tribes lived ...
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Odrysian kingdom
Roman client monarchs
1st-century murdered monarchs
1st-century monarchs in Europe
Year of birth unknown
Eponymous archons
Odrysian kings
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44 deaths