Zela
Zela
(zē`lə), ancient city of PontusPontus,ancient country, NE Asia Minor (now Turkey), on the Black Sea coast. On its inland side were Cappadocia and W Armenia. It was not significantly penetrated by Persian or Hellenic civilization. In the 4th cent. B.C.
..... Click the link for more information. , NE Asia Minor. There Mithradates VI defeated Triarius c.67 B.C., and in 47 B.C. 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.