Pompey's eastern settlement

Pompey's eastern settlement was the reorganization of

client kingdoms was established as a buffer to the Parthian Empire

Pompey also carried out reforms to the provincial administrative and taxation systems in the Roman East, and founded new cities. Although generally acknowledged as humane and sound, the Eastern Settlement was carried out without the advice or consent of the

Crassus and Julius Caesar in the First Triumvirate; ratification of the eastern settlement was one of the main legislative planks of Caesar's first consulship in 59 BC. Many of the provisions of Pompey's survived for centuries, well into the Roman Empire

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