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Updated: June 27, 2025
He was able to subdue the rich trading-city of Novgorod , which had been connected with the Hanseatic League, and where a party endeavored to bring to pass a union with Poland. He conquered unknown frozen districts in the North, and smaller princedoms, including Tver, in the interior. The empire of the Horde was so broken up that Ivan achieved an almost bloodless triumph, which made Russia free.
The Romans watched the growth of the Carthaginian power there with discontent, and compelled Hasdrubal to declare in a treaty that the Ebro should be the limit of Carthaginian conquests . At the same time Rome made a protective alliance with Saguntum, a rich and powerful trading-city on the south of that river.
Under him Syria lost the eastern part of Asia Minor through the invading Gauls, who converted northern Phrygia into Galatia, while north-western Lydia became the kingdom of Pergamon. The Parthian and Bactrian kingdoms began under his reign. They gradually acquired civilization from contact with Greek culture, especially after they established the trading-city of Ctesiphon.
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