Artabazus II (Elamite: Irdumasda; Persian Artavazdâ?): Persian nobleman (c.389-325), played a very important role during the war between Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid empire.
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Artavardiya: Persian general, serving under king Darius I the Great.According to the Behistun Inscription, Artavardiya defeated the Persian Vahyazdâta, who had claimed to be the legitimate king Smerdis, on 24 May 521 BCE, near Rakhâ (modern Behbehân), and a second…
Artavasdes: pro-Roman, Artaxiad ruler in Armenia (c. 1 CE).In 34 BCE, the Roman general Mark Antony captured the Armenian king Artavasdes II, who was later executed. Some of his relatives were living in Rome. One of these was a man prince named Artavasdes,…
Artavasdes I: king of Armenia (r. c.161-120 BCE) from the Artaxiad dynasty.Artavasdes is the second known king from the Artaxiad dynasty of Armenia. He appears to have been the son of Artaxias I and may have been the father of…
Artavasdes II: king of Armenia (r. after 55-34 BCE) from the Artaxiad dynasty.King Tigranes II the Great of Armenia (r.c.95-c.55) and his ally Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus had been humiliated by the Romans and his son and successor Artavasdes II…
Artavasdes III: king of Armenia (r. 4-6 CE).In the year 4 CE, the pro-Roman king Ariobarzanes of Armenia, who was not from Armenia but from Media Atropatene, died in an accident.note[Tacitus, Annals 2.4.] He was succeeded by his son Artavasdes III,note[Augustus,…
Artaxata or Artaxiasata (Greek Ἀρτάξατα or ᾽Αρταξιάσατα): Hellenistic capital of Armenia (modern Khor Virap).Foundation
Khor Virap and the so-called Ararat
Artaxata was founded in 188 BCE…
Artaxias II: king of Armenia (r.34-20 BCE) from the Artaxiad dynasty.In 34 BCE, the Roman commander Mark Antony had invaded Armenia and had captured king Artavasdes II. It was Antony's ambition to put a son of the Ptolemaic queen, the…
Artaxias III Zeno: king of Armenia (r. 18-34 CE) from the Artaxiad dynasty.King Tigranes IV (r.c.8 BCE - 2 CE) had been the last one to effectively rule Armenia, but the Roman emperor Augustus had objected Tigranes' pro-Parthian policy and had…
After the Mauryan emperor Ashoka (269-232), or Piyadasi, had conquered almost the entire Indian subcontinent, he was sick of all violence (below), converted to Buddhism and adopted a more pacifist world view. On several places in India and Pakistan (and…