Prusias I Chlorus (ca.
228 BC –
182 BC) was a king of
Bithynia. The son of
Ziaelas, he formed a marriage alliance with
Philip V of
Macedon.
Prusias fought a war against
Byzantium (
220 BC), then defeated the
Gauls that
Nicomedes I had invited across the
Bosporus. He expanded the territories of Bithynia in a series of wars against
Attalus I of
Pergamum and
Heraclea Pontica on the
Black Sea. Philip V granted him the ports of
Keios and
Myrleia in
202, which he renamed Prusias and Apameia respectively.
Although he granted sanctuary to
Hannibal, who fought aganist the Attalids for him, he remained neutral during the
Roman Republic's war with
Antiochus III the Great.
He was succeeded by his son
Prusias II.
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Habicht, Christian, s.v. Prusias I., RE. Bd. ХХШ, 1. 1957
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