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| | Iranica.com - HORMOZD I |
 | | Basing herself primarily upon the Armenian sources, Marie Louise Chaumont suggested that the pretext for a@pur's offensive against Rome could be related to the asylum it granted to the young, fugitive, prince Tirda@d, son of the Arsacid king of Armenia, K¨osrow, who appears to have been assassinated at a@pur's instigation prior to the Persian invasion. |
 | | Kettenhofen, who, after a close scrutiny of the Armenian and classical sources, proposed the year 217 as the beginning of Tirda@d's reign, thereby surmising that Tirda@d was, at the time of the Persian invasion of Armenia in 252 c.e., a mature sovereign with a history of 35 years of rule. |
 | | It is generally agreed that Armenia was annexed in 252 C.E., during the reign of Trebonianus Gallus and the coregency of Volusianus according to Zonaras (Annales 12.21; Chaumont, 1976, p. |
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