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		Tigranakert very quickly became a culture center of not only Armenian State, but of all of the ancient Near East.
		Each of the four appointed governor-kings were closest to Tigran and held the highest and most prestigious position in the court after King of Kings in the royal city of Tigranakert.
		Many of its citizens of various nationalities were forced to leave the city, their homes and possessions being lost in the fire.
	www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au /armenians/prominent_p5.html (4058 words)

	ARMENIAN HIGHLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The City of Tigranakert was situated in the Ałdznik Province of Greater Armenia, near the City of Amid.
		Tigranakert quickly became a very important commercial, as well as cultural center of the Near East.
		Plutarch wrote that Tigranakert was "a rich and beautiful city where every common man and every man of rank studied to adorn it." The Hellenistic culture during the Artaxiad dynasty had a strong influence and the Greek language was in fact the official language of the court.
	www.armenianhighland.com /tigranthegreat/chronicle504.html (1166 words)

	Tigranakert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		During his reign, Tigranes the Great built 4 cities and named all of them Tigranakert.
		The largest and the most known of them was situated on the left shore of Tigris River in Aghdznik province of Armenia (present day Turkey).
		In 69 BC, Tigranakert was ruined by Lucullus.
	www.armenianhistory.info /tigranakert.htm (59 words)

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		Its capital was the great and bejeweled Tigranakert, the site of which is located in Eastern Turkey near the Tigris River.
		Not surprisingly, given Armenia’s tumultuous history, Tigranakert was utterly destroyed by the Roman general Lucullus and his army a few decades later, and little besides historical accounts and some portions of walls now remain.
		The memory of Tigranakert, however, remains strong in the imagination of its people, even today.
	www.chalcedon.edu /cgi-bin/GPrint2002.pl?file=articles/0409/040901-1kayayan.php (1381 words)

	-BRIEF INFORMATION ABOUT DYNASTIES AND KINGS OF ARMENIA- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Tigran later annexed the Syrian possessions of the Seleucides and the city of Antioch on the river of Horontes became one of the capitals of Armenia (other capitals were Artashat and Tigranakert that was founded by Tigran II).
		Tigran's army was defeted by the Roman general Lucullus near capital Tigranakert.
		In 66 Tigran II received the title of "the friend ally of the Roman people".
	nobility.artsakhworld.com /Kings_Bios_Eng.html (1503 words)

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		No country in the world had so many capital cities as did Armenia.
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