Zela

Zela zē´lə [key], ancient city of Pontus, NE Asia Minor. There Mithradates VI defeated Triarius c.67 BC, and in 47 BC Julius Caesar defeated Pharnaces, king of Pontus, recording the victory in his famous dispatch Veni, vidi, vici [I came, I saw, I conquered]. It is the modern Zile, Turkey.

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