assumed the name of Antioch-on-the-Cydnus, a name which appears on its new coin issue in the reign of Antiochus IV (from 171 B.C. onwards). This new coin issue seems to coincide with a reorganization of the city’s constitution, which conferred on it a greater degree of municipal autonomy.5 In 83 B.C. it fell into the power of Tigranes I, king of Armenia, the ally and son-in-law of Mithridates VI, but passed into Roman hands as a result of Pompey’s victories, and became the capital of the province
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