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t. e. Ancient Armenia refers to the history of Armenia during Antiquity. It follows Prehistoric Armenia and covers a period of approximately one thousand years, beginning at the end of the Iron Age with the events that led to the dissolution of the Kingdom of Urartu, and the emergence of the first geopolitical entity called Armenia in the 6th ...
Armenia, also the Kingdom of Greater Armenia (Armenian: Մեծ Հայքի թագավորություն, romanized: Mets Hayk’i t’agavorut’yun), [8] or simply Greater Armenia or Armenia Major (Armenian: Մեծ Հայք Mets Hayk; [9] Latin: Armenia Maior) sometimes referred to as the Armenian Empire, was a kingdom in the Ancient Near East which existed from 331 BC to 428 AD.
This is a list of the monarchs of Armenia, rulers of the ancient Kingdom of Armenia (336 BC – AD 428), the medieval Kingdom of Armenia (884–1045), various lesser Armenian kingdoms (908–1170), and finally the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (1198–1375). The list also includes prominent vassal princes and lords who ruled during times without ...
The territory of the ancient kingdom of Urartu extended over the modern frontiers of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and the Republic of Armenia. [7] [8] Its kings left behind cuneiform inscriptions in the Urartian language, a member of the Hurro-Urartian language family. [8]
Armenian presence in Cilicia dates back to the first century BC, when under Tigranes the Great, the Kingdom of Armenia expanded and conquered a vast region in the Levant. In 83 BC, the Greek aristocracy of Seleucid Syria, weakened by a bloody civil war, offered their allegiance to the ambitious Armenian king. [11]
Satenik of the Alans, daughter of the king of the Alans, wife of Artaxias I. Cleopatra of Pontus, daughter of Mithridates VI of Pontus, wife of Tigranes II the Great. Erato of Armenia, half-sister and wife of Tigranes IV; also co-ruler. Zenobia, daughter of Mithridates of Armenia, and wife of Rhadamistus. Ashkhen, wife of Tiridates III of Armenia.
Although Tigranes IV was the namesake of his father, the name Tigranes was the most common royal name in the Artaxiad dynasty and was among the most ancient names of the Armenian Kings. Tigranes IV was born and raised either in Rome where his father lived in political exile for 10 years [6] from 30 BC until 20 BC or during his father's Kingship ...
The borders of Bagratid Armenia from 884 to 962. Several contemporary prominent Armenians, including Grigor-Derenik Vaspurakan, insisted on Ashot's coronation. [24] Ashot was crowned King of Armenia through the consent of Caliph al-Mu'tamid in 885 to prevent intrusion into Armenian territory by Basil I, a Byzantine emperor of Armenian origin. [25]