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	Tigranes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tigranes (sometimes Tigran or Dikran) was the name of a number of historical figures, primarily kings of Armenia.
		However, Tigranes the Great is also sometimes known as Tigranes I, in his capacity as a successor to the Seleucid dynasty.
		Another Tigranes was a member of the Achaemenid family who, according to Herodotus, commanded the Medes in the army of Xerxes during the invasion of Greece.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tigranes (265 words)

	Tigranes the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tigranes the Great (Armenian: Տիգրան Մեծ) (ruled 95 BC-55 BC) (also called Tigranes II and sometimes Tigranes I) was a king of Armenia.
		Tigranes was born around 140 BCE and was the son or nephew of Artavasdes I.
		Tigranes' son went over to Pompey, and as they approached Artaxata, Tigranes himself surrendered, gave up all his territories except Armenia, and finished out his life as a tributary of Rome.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tigranes_I_of_Armenia (383 words)

	Armenian History, chapter 2: Between Roman and Persian Empires
		Some 50 years later, the king Tigranes the First in alliance with Cyrus the Great, founder of Achaemenid dynasty conquered the lands controlled by the Medes and reinforced the Armenian kingdom.
		Tigranes the Second also known as Tigranes the Great, extended the Armenian borders from Caspian Sea to Egypt, gaining full control over the vast territories.
		Under the ruling of the aged Abgar, nephew of Tigranes the Great, the whole territory of Armenia was subdued to Rome.
	www.armenianhistory.info /between.htm (1094 words)

	KING TIGRAN II THE GREAT
		Tigranes then began war with the Parthians, whose empire (southeast of the Caspian Sea) was temporarily weakened after the death of Mithradates II (about 87) by internal dissensions and invasions of the Scythians.
		Tigranes reconquered the valleys he had ceded and laid waste a great part of Media; the kings of Atropatene (Azerbaijan), Gordyene and Adiabene (both on the Upper Tigris River), and Osroene became his vassals.
		Tigranes was defeated at Tigranocerta on Oct. 6, 69, and again near the former capital of Artaxata in September 68.
	www.armenians.com /famous/Tigran (440 words)

	Tigranes II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tigranes II Tigranes II (Tigranes the Great) King of Armenia (89-55 BC).
		His marriage with the daughter of Mithridates the Great, king of Pontus asserted the Ponto-Armenian treaty.
		In 66 BC, a treaty of peace was concluded between Tigranes and Pompey the Great, which compelled Tigranes to cede some of the conquered territories.
	www.armenianhistory.info /tigran2.htm (129 words)

	Tigranes II The Great -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Tigranes was the son or brother of Artavasdes I and a member of the dynasty founded in the early 2nd century by Artaxias.
		The boy who was to become a great military leader and king of Prussia began his career hating the life of a soldier.
		Pella, the capital of ancient Macedonia, was the birthplace of Alexander the Great.
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		The country is mentioned as Armina and Armaniya in the Bisitun inscription of Darius I the Great (ruled 522–486 BC) and, according to the 5th-century Greek historian Herodotus, formed part of the 13th satrapy (province) of Persia, the Alarodioi forming part of the 18th.
		Under Tigranes, Armenia ascended to a pinnacle of power unique in its history and became, albeit briefly, the strongest state in the Roman east.
		Although Armenian culture at the time of Tigranes was Iranian, as it had been and as it was fundamentally to remain for many centuries, Hellenic scholars and actors found a welcome at the Armenian court.
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	Armenia
		And then Tigranes the Great, came to the trone, 95-55 B.C. And he expanded Armenia thrice its size.He conquered Cilicia, Syria, what is present day Iraq, thus extending Armenian borders from the Caspian sea, all the way to the Mediterranean.
		Artavasd II son of Tigranes, came to the throne at 55 B.C.He ruled until 34 B.C. Mark Anthony conquered Armenia, he captured Artavasd and his family and gave them as a gift to his beloved, Cleopatra.Mark Antony ordered the king to bow down before Cleopatra, and accept her as his queen.
		Above is the speech of the Turks written by the great Armenian-American Author, William Saroyan.In the summer of 1894 the Turkish army sacked the greatest town in armenian history, Sassun.
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	Tigranes on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		TIGRANES [Tigranes], c.140 BC-55 BC, king of Armenia (c.96 BC-55 BC), called also Tigranes I and Tigranes the Great.
		He founded Tigranocerta (the modern Siirt, Turkey) as the capital of his large empire, but he and Mithradates were at war with Rome, and in 69 BC Lucullus captured Tigranocerta.
		Pompey with the aid of Tigranes' son vanquished Tigranes, who lost all his conquests and had to pay tribute to Rome.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Tigranes.asp (246 words)

	Armenia, Armenian, Armenian History, Armenians, Armenian Cause, Armenian research, Armenian facts, Armenian people, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The fact remains that the Edict of Milan decreed by Constantine the Great in 313 simply mandated tolerance of the Christians in the Roman Empire, while Tiridates the Great proclaimed Christianity as a sole religion throughout all Armenian lands.
		To the great disappointment of the Armenians, Moscow first took a wait-and-see attitude, and then openly supported Azerbaijan by saying: "The map of the USSR will never be redrawn".
		In the 1st century BC, when Armenia became a powerful state, Tigranes the Great built the city of Tigranakert, one of the four cities of that name, near the present city of Aghdam.
	www.ayfwest.org /Armenia_Armenian/Armenia/armenia_armenian.html (15280 words)

	Tigranes II The Great -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Tigranes took the title “king of kings” and built a new royal city, Tigranocerta, on the borders of Armenia and Mesopotamia (the actual site is disputed), where he accumulated all his wealth and to which he transplanted the inhabitants of 12 Greek towns of Cappadocia, Cilicia, and Syria.
		The recall of Lucullus gave some respite to Mithradates and Tigranes, but in the meantime a son of Tigranes, also called Tigranes, rebelled against him.
		Although the younger Tigranes was given an army by the Parthian king Phraates III, he was defeated by his father and was forced to flee to the Roman general Pompey.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9072452 (1177 words)

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		By an alliance with his father-in-law, Mithradates VI of Pontus, he was able to extend his conquests across Asia Minor.
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		Sometimes called Pompey the Great, he was the son of Cnaeus Pompeius Strabo (consul in 89 B.C.), a commander of equivocal...
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	A Brief History of Armenia...
		Forming an important coign of vantage and a highway of great value for trade and commerce between two continents, Armenia was, it seems destined to be constantly at grips with adversity.
		Some two hundred years later, in 329 B.C., she was under the domination of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, and under the spell of Hellenic culture, which made a profound influence on her own culture and thought.
		It was long after the death of Alexander the Great and after protracted struggles with his successors that the Armenians were able, in 150 B.C., to found the Arthashesian (Arsacid) Dynasty, which was to last until the middle of the fifth century.
	www.saintsarkis.org /History.htm (3359 words)

	HyeEtch - Religion & Church - Etchmiadzin & Treasures p1
		Tigran, envisioned Armenia as a powerful Hellenistic state, with large cities such as Vardkesavan - St. Etchmiadzin.
		Many new books were written by Armenian scholars, such as the great works of Moses of Khoren and his book "Armenian History" which comprised the History of the Armenian people from the times of the flood to the V th century.
		The whole of structure was covert by frescos and obelisks of Christian Saints and ancient Armenian ornament of great beauty and fine craftsmanship.
	www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au /religion/h_see_p1.html (1135 words)

	Tigranes II the Great King of Armenia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		- - Dght I of Tigranes Princess of Armenia
		- - Dght II of Tigranes Princess of Armenia
		- - Dght III of Tigranes Princess of Armenia
	www.american-pictures.com /genealogy/persons/per00594.htm (44 words)

	MSN Encarta - Armenia (region)
		Cyrus the Great, king of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire, seized the country in 549 bc, whereupon it became a satrapy of Persia.
		These satrapies were independent kingdoms from 190 bc until 94 bc, when Tigranes the Great, king of Armenia, reunited them under his rule.
		Tigranes conquered parts of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, but was beaten by the Romans in 69 bc.
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		In 84 bc he raised three legions and defeated the Marian party, and he was later sent to destroy the remnants of the Marian faction in Africa and Sicily.
		On his triumphant return to Rome he was honored with the title Magnus, or the Great.
		In 67–66 bc, Pompey cleared the Mediterranean Sea of pirates and was subsequently given control of the provinces in the east and put in charge of the war against Mithradates VI of Pontus.
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..po110700.a (586 words)

	Appian's Roman History: The Mithridatic Wars
		Tigranes, with the rest of the horse, attacked the Roman foragers and was beaten, for which reason the Romans foraged more freely afterward even in the vicinity of Mithridates himself, and encamped near him.
		The latter perceived their movement and sent forward the best of his horse to engage Tigranes at as great a distance as possible, and prevent him from deploying from his line of march into order of battle.
		Tigranes now withdrew into the interior of Armenia and Mithridates hastened to what was left of his own kingdom of Pontus, taking with him 4,000 of his own troops and as many more that he had received from Tigranes.
	www.livius.org /ap-ark/appian/appian_mithridatic_18.html (1226 words)

	Armenia: history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After the expeditions of Alexander the Great and the rise of the Seleucid Empire, Armenia came under extensive Greek influence which had an important effect upon the cultural life of the country.
		Armenia reached the pinnacle of its prosperity during the reign of Tigranes the Great (95-55 BC).
		Tigranes' empire soon fell, and Armenia was proclaimed âfriend and ally of the Roman peopleâ, a euphemism for the vassals of Rome.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=202 (2134 words)

	A General History of the Near East, Chapter 6
		The cavalry remained the main arm of the army, but he also required the great landowners to supply peasants for infantry units, which were summoned in time of need for garrison duty and missions in rough country.
		Instead the easy pickings went to Tigranes, who revoked the Parthian overlordship imposed upon him at his coronation, relieved his late masters of Atropatene and northern Mesopotamia, and added insult to injury by taking on the Persian title "King of Kings." Then he moved west to seize Cilicia and most of Syria (83).
		Tigranes kept his throne, but he lost most of his territory, paid a large indemnity, and ruled after that as a client king of Rome.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /neareast/ne06.html (11568 words)

	Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, 106-47 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With Tigranes as a friend and ally of Rome, the chain of Roman protectorates was extended as far east as the Black Sea and the Caucasus.
		" The great power in the city which was rightly his was used by him wrongly in the interests of others; as he strengthened them, so he weakened his own reputation till, before he realized what was happening, he found himself ruined by the very force and greatness of his own power.
		Alone, the great Pompey was lured toward a supposed audience on shore in a small boat in which he recognized two old comrades-in-arms from the glorious, early battles.
	heraklia.fws1.com /contemporaries/pompey (4133 words)

	History - Armenia - Asia
		In the early 1st century bc Armenian king Tigranes the Great formed an empire—the most extensive Armenian realm in history—that stretched from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and included parts of Georgia and Syria.
		Tigranes’ empire came under the control of the Roman Empire before the end of the 1st century, however, and Armenia became a buffer zone—and often a battleground—in Rome’s campaigns against the Parthians, who ruled over Persia (present-day Iran).
		His conversion predated that of Constantine the Great of the Byzantine Empire (the eastern portion of the Roman Empire), making Armenia the first state to officially adopt Christianity.
	www.countriesquest.com /asia/armenia/history.htm (413 words)

	Halley's comet portrayed on ancient coin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The coin features the head of the Armenian king Tigranes II the Great, who reigned from 95 to 55 BC.
		Tigranes could have seen Halley's comet when it passed closest to the Sun on 6 August in 87 BC, according to the researchers, who said the comet would have been a "most recordable event".
		While the coin dates back to before 83 BC, when Tigranes conquered the ancient city of Antioch, the capital city of Syria at the time, researchers do not know its precise date.
	www.mirabilis.ca /archives/001743.html (157 words)

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		When Alexander the Great conquered the Near East in 334 Baalbek was renamed Heliopolis.
		In A.D. 306 Emporer Constantine the Great embraced Christiantity and the spread of that faith resulted in the closing of the temples.
		Theodosius the Great (379-395) made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire and ordered the destruction of pagan alters and converted the temples of Baalbek into Christian churches.
	www.geocities.com /baalbek72 (1081 words)

	ArmeniaGuide.com Applied Art Exibit
		Urartu 700 BC The Hurrian Kingdom, on the shores of the Western Tigris, and the Mitani Kingdom, south of Lake Dushpa (Lake Van), were the first organized states in Armenia.
		The statue may date to the reign of Tigranes the Great, king of Armenia (97-56 BC), whose rule saw prosperity throughout the region.
		Tigranes the Great, King of Armenia 97-56 BC Under Tigranes, Armenia ascended to a pinnacle of power unique in its history and became, albeit briefly, the strongest state in the Roman east.
	www.armeniaguide.com /html/appliedart.html (2218 words)

	MSN Encarta - Pompey the Great
		Pompey the Great (106-48 bc), Roman general and statesman, the erstwhile ally and son-in-law of Julius Caesar, but later his arch-rival for power.
		Pompey was born Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus in Rome on September 29, 106 bc, into a senatorial family; his father, Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, was consul in 89 bc.
		Between 65 and 62 bc, Pompey conquered not only Mithridates but also Tigranes the Great, king of Armenia, and Antiochus XIII of Syria, annexing the territory of the latter to the Roman dominions.
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	All Empires History Forum: What happend to the Seleucid empire?
		Its native population was of the same stock as that of Cappadocia, of which it had formed a part, an Oriental race often called by the Greeks Leucosyri or White Syrians, as distinguished from the southern Syrians, who were of a darker complexion, but their precise ethnological relations are uncertain.
		Geographically it is a table-land, forming the north-east corner of the great plateau of Asia Minor, edged on the north by a lofty mountain rim, along the foot of which runs a fringe of coast-land.
		Eventually, one of Tigranes' sons betrayed him and joined the Romans, while his other son betrayed him and joined the Parthians, who were attacking from the East.
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