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Pompey the Great sent two of his lieutenants to seize Damascus is 65 BC. He went to Syria himself and annexed it in 63 BC, towards the end of the Third Mithridatic War against Pontus and Armenia. He did do because of the decay of the ruling dynasty (the Seleucids) and the continuous civil wars in Syria, which had become a failed state.
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∙ 7y agoSyria was annexed by the Roman Republic in 64 BC. General Pompey led the Roman legions to secure this new province for Rome.
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