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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 ...
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.
Stone tools from 325,000 years ago have been found in Armenia which indicate the presence of early humans at this time. [16]In the 1960s, excavations in the Yerevan 1 Cave uncovered evidence of ancient human habitation, including the remains of a 48,000-year-old heart, and a human cranial fragment and tooth of a similar age.
The name Ararat was translated as Armenia in the 1st century AD in historiographical works [40] and very early Latin translations of the Bible, [41] as well as the Books of Kings [42] and Isaiah in the Septuagint. Some English language translations, including the King James Version, [43] follow the Septuagint translation of Ararat as Armenia. [44]
The Arsacid dynasty, called the Arshakuni (Արշակունի) in Armenian, ruled the Kingdom of Armenia (with some interruptions) from 12 to 428 AD. [1] The dynasty was a branch of the Arsacid dynasty of Parthia. Arsacid kings reigned intermittently throughout the chaotic years following the fall of the Artaxiad dynasty until 62, when ...
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]
The Artaxiad dynasty (also Artashesian) [a] ruled the Kingdom of Armenia from 189 BC until their overthrow by the Romans in 12 AD. Their realm included Greater Armenia, Sophene and, intermittently, parts of Mesopotamia. Their main enemies were the Romans, the Seleucids and the Parthians, against whom the Armenians conducted multiple wars.