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	Tiridates
		Tiridates, or Teridates is a Persian name, given by Arrian in his Parthica (preserved by Photius, cod.
		Tiridates fled to Syria, where Augustus allowed him to stay, but refused to support him.
		During the next years Tiridates invaded Parthia again; some coins dated from March and May, 26 BC, with the name of a king "Arsaces Phioromaios," belong to him; on the reverse they show the king seated on the throne, with Tyche stretching out a palm branch towards him.
	www.fastload.org /ti/Tiridates.html (219 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1151 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		tiridates II., king of Armenia, was the son of the Armenian king Vologeses.
		Tiridates, who was then an infant, was saved by the fidelity of a servant and carried to the Romans, by whom he was educated with great care.
		Although Tiridates displayed the greatest energy and courage, he was unable long to retain possession of his kingdom against the overwhelming power of the Persian monarchy.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3485.html (930 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Annals by Tacitus
		As he spoke, he encircled Tiridates' brow with a diadem, and to Moneses, a noble, he entrusted a highly efficient body of cavalry, which was the king's customary escort, giving him also some auxiliaries from the Adiabeni, and orders that Tigranes was to be driven out of Armenia.
		Tiridates first dwelt much on the nobility of his race, but went on to speak in a tone of moderation.
		To this Tiridates advanced, and having slain the customary victims, he removed the crown from his head, and set it at the foot of the statue; whereupon all felt a deep thrill of emotion, rendered the more intense by the sight which yet lingered before their eyes, of the slaughter or siege of Roman armies.
	classics.mit.edu /Tacitus/annals.11.xv.html (10623 words)

	Tiridates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tiridates was the name of three members of the Arsacid Dynasty of Parthia:
		Tiridates I of Parthia was the brother of Arsaces I.
		Tiridates or Trdat was the name of four kings of Armenia:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tiridates (101 words)

	Arsaces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After two years (according to Arrian) he was killed, and his brother Tiridates, who succeeded him and maintained himself for a short time in Parthia, during the dissolution of the Seleucid empire by the attacks of Ptolemy III (247 ff.), was defeated and expelled by Seleucus II (about 238).
		But when this king was forced, by the rebellion of his brother, Antiochus Hierax, to return to the west, Tiridates came back and defeated the Macedon ians (Strabo xi.
		He was the real founder of the Parthian empire, which was of very limited extent until the final decay of the Seleucid empire, occasioned by the Roman intrigues after the death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes (165 BC), enabled Mithradates and his successors to conquer Media and Babylonia.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Arsaces.html (390 words)

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		In 287 with support of Roman army Tiridates comes to Armenia to regain the throne of his ancestors.
		Tiridates tries to get Grigor do his will, but the latter keeps steady in his faith.
		This time Tiridates is informed, that Grigor is the son to Anak, who killed Tiridates's father, Khosrov.
	www.tourismarmenia.org /introduction/religion.html (894 words)

	Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Saints - Saints by Day - January - 1st
		The steadfastness of the saint embittered Tiridates, and he gave his faithful servant over to cruel tortures: they suspended the sufferer head downwards with a stone about his neck, for several days they choked him with a stinking smoke, they beat and ridiculed him, and forced him to walk in iron sandals inset with nails.
		Tiridates gave the maiden over to cruelest torments: they plucked out her tongue, cut open her stomach, blinded and killed her, chopping her body into pieces.
		Tiridates was healed, repenting of his offenses against God, and with his whole household he accepted holy Baptism.
	www.stlukeorthodox.com /html/saints/september/30th.cfm (1985 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Annals by Tacitus
		He chose Tiridates, of the same stock as Artabanus, to be his rival, and the Iberian Mithridates to be the instrument of recovering Armenia, having reconciled him to his brother Pharasmanes, who held the throne of that country.
		Vitellius thought it enough to have displayed the arms of Rome, and he then bade Tiridates remember his grandfather Phraates, and his foster-father Caesar, and all that was glorious in both of them, while the nobles were to show obedience to their king, and respect for us, each maintaining his honour and his loyalty.
		Tiridates meanwhile, with the consent of the Parthians, received the submission of Nicephorium, Anthemusias and the other cities, which having been founded by Macedonians, claim Greek names, also of the Parthian towns Halus and Artemita.
	classics.mit.edu /Tacitus/annals.6.vi.html (10975 words)

	Tiridates_III_of_Parthia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tiridates III of Parthia ruled the Parthian Empire briefly in 35–36.
		Tiberius sent Tiridates to the east, and ordered Lucius Vitellius (the father of the emperor Vitellius) to restore the Roman authority there.
		However, Tiridates, who was proclaimed king, could not maintain himself, because he appeared to be a vassal of the Romans.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Tiridates_III_of_Parthia (140 words)

	Tiridates I of Parthia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tiridates was defeated and expelled by Seleucus II in about 238 BC.
		Tiridates adopted the name of his brother Arsaces, and after him all the other Parthian kings.
		Tiridates II of Parthia is called "Tiridates I" in accounts that miss out the earlier Tiridates.
	tiridates-i-of-parthia.ask.dyndns.dk (183 words)

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		[Sidenote:--2--] Tiridates himself was in the prime of life, a notable figure by reason of his youth, beauty, family, and intelligence: and his whole train of servants together with the entourage of a royal court accompanied the advance.
		Next Tiridates and his suite passed through rows of heavy-armed men drawn up on each side, took their stand close to the rostra, and did obeisance to the emperor as they had done before.
		This made Tiridates disgusted with him; but for Corbulo the visitor had only praise and deemed the one thing against him to be that he would put up with such a master.
	www.gutenberg.net /1/0/8/9/10890/10890.txt (19501 words)

	Global Harvest Ministries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tiridates discovered and identified him as the son of his own father's murderer.
		After this crime, Tiridates was deprived of his reason and was reduced to groveling upon the ground on all fours, like a wild beast.
		The king's sister told Tiridates that she had had a vision of a man with a radiant face who had declared to her that persecution of Christians must cease.
	www.globalharvestministries.org /index.asp?action=armenia (952 words)

	Tiridates I of Parthia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tiridates, or Teridates is a Persian name, given by Arrian in his Parthica to the brother of Arsaces I, the founder of the Parthian kingdom, whom he is said to have succeeded in about 246 BC.
		In Arrian's account, Tiridates maintained himself for a short time in Parthia, during the dissolution of the Seleucid empire by the attacks of Ptolemy III in 246 BC and the following years.
		But when Seleucus was forced, by the rebellion of his brother, Antiochus Hierax, to return to the west, Tiridates came back and defeated the Macedonians.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Tiridates-I-of-Parthia.htm (251 words)

	Tiridates the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the beginning of his reign, Tiridates was a fierce persecutor of the Christians.
		By 300, Tiridates turned from a persecutor to the protector of the Christians.
		Gates of Tiridates in Echmiadzin, in front of the residence of Catholicos.
	www.armenianhistory.info /tiridates.htm (125 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tiridates continued the persecution of Christians in his kingdom, and attacked a women's monastery of thirty-seven nuns with their abbess, Gaiane.
		A man appeared to the king's sister in a dream and told her that her mad brother would not be restored to sanity until Gregory was taken out of the pit.
		Then Tiridates began to urge her to go with him, for the king was as though intoxicated by her beauty, but Rhipsimia resisted the pagan king with all her strength, 'and he who was victorious over the princes of the Goths and routed the Persians could not overcome one virgin of Christ'.
	www.pomog.org /prologue/October/13.htm (606 words)

	Tiridates III (c. A.D. 224 - 228?)
		A.D. The coins of Tiridates III were attributed to Artabanus IV by Sellwood
		As for dating the reign of Tiridates III, we can tentatively assume that it is after the demise of Artabanus IV (c.
		The fact that Tiridates does not style himself king also suggests that he might not have been an Arsacid prince.
	www.parthia.com /tiridates3.htm (900 words)

	Arsacid Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1st century BC, with the fall of the last remains of the hellenistic kingdoms, saw the emergence of what were to be the Parthians' mortal enemies; the Romans and the Kushan Empire, with whom the Parthians were to be engaged in many conflicts, without forgetting all the fights against the nomads from north-east.
		In 247 BC two brothers, Arsaces (Arschag) and Tiridates, members of the nomad iranic tribe of the Parni, first mentioned in this century and migrating south from the banks of the Amu-Darya, occupied the Seleucid satrapy of Parthia (the district of Tejen) by defeating and killing its governor Andragoras.
		They were years of great tumult and difficulties for the House of Seleucus, which had also a few years before lost control of Bactria with the rebellion of the Greek satrap Diodotus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arsacid_Dynasty (789 words)

	Arsaces - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Arsaces, seeking refuge before the Bactrian king Diodotus, invaded Parthia, then a province of the Seleucid Empire, about 250 BC (Strabo xi.
		But when this king was forced, by the rebellion of his brother, Antiochus Hierax, to return to the west, Tiridates came back and defeated the Macedonians (Strabo xi.
		Tiridates adopted the name of his brother Arsaces, and after him all the other Parthian kings (who by the historians are generally called by their proper names), amounting to the number of about thirty, officially wear only the name Arsaces.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Arsaces_of_Parthia (352 words)

	Rockopera.am ::: Gregory the Illuminator
		Emperor Diocletianus crowns Tiridates as the king of Armenia.
		As Hripsime refuses to marry the king, Tiridates orders to beat her to death.
		Tiridates and Gregory together lay the foundation of St. Etchmiadzin, the Mother Church of Armenia's Holy Apostolic Church in the capital city of Vagharshapat, which became the new spiritual and as well as cultural center of Christian Armenia and remained so to this day - for nearly one thousand seven hundred years.
	www.rockopera.am /gregscript.html (323 words)

	Chapter Reign Of Diocletian And This Three Associates. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon
		Armenia was chosen for the place of exile, and a large district was assigned to the Scythian horde, on which they might feed their flocks and herds, and remove their encampment from one place to another, according to the different seasons of the year.
		They were employed to repel the invasion of Tiridates; but their leader, after weighing the obligations and injuries which he had received from the Persian monarch, resolved to abandon his party.
		The historian, who has preserved the name of Tiridates from oblivion, celebrates, with a degree of national enthusiasm, his personal prowess: and, in the true spirit of eastern romance, describes the giants and the elephants that fell beneath his invincible arm.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/62/109/25655/8.html (856 words)

	TIRIDATES - LoveToKnow Article on TIRIDATES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		TIRIDATES HI;, grandson of Phraates IV., lived as a hostage in Rome and was educated there.
		in A.D. 35 they applied for a king to Tiberius, who sent Tiridates.
		With the assistance of L. Vitellius Tiridates entered Seleucia, but could not maintain himself long (Tacitus, Ann.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TI/TIRIDATES.htm (281 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		TIRIDATES TIRIDATES, or TERIDATES, a Persian name, given by Arrian in his Parthica (preserved by Photius, cod.
		Tiridates loved Gregory like a friend, but he was intolerant...
		Christianity, according to legend, came to Armenia in the reign of Tiridates III (A.D. 238-314), who was the first ruler to Christianize his people.
	tiridates.iqexpand.com (475 words)

	Lucius Vitellius
		The result was that many Parthians ignored their oath of loyalty to Artabanus, and sided with Tiridates, the Parthian prince from Rome, who arrived in the Spring of 36.
		Vitellius may have wanted to play a bigger role in Tiridates' accession, but was forced to go to nearby Cilicia, where a wandering tribe refused to obey Roman tax gatherers.
		Meanwhile, prince Tiridates had continued to Seleucia and Ctesiphon, the capitals of the Persian empire, where a member of the Sûrên-clan crowned him.
	www.livius.org /vi-vr/vitellius/lucius.html (1139 words)

	How Armenia "Invented" Christendom - Christian History
		Tiridates then learned that Gregory was the son of his father's murderer, and he ordered that the missionary be thrown into a "bottommost pit" filled with dead bodies and other filth.
		Tiridates took a liking to her too, and took her forcibly when she refused to come to him.
		After all, he wrote his book in 460 (Tiridates is believed by Armenians to have converted in 301), and much of his story has elements of hagiography that lead one to wonder whether the events ever happened.
	www.christianitytoday.com /ch/2005/001/8.46.html (1384 words)

	OCA - Lives of all saints commemorated on this day
		During this time the emperor Tiridates executed the holy virgin St. Rhipsime, the aged abbess Gaiana and another 35 virgins from one of the monasteries of Asia Minor.
		The wrath of God befell emperor Tiridates, and also his associates and soldiers who had participated in the torture of the saints.
		Diocletian sent word to King Tiridates of Armenia, asking him to capture Rhipsime and send her to him, or to marry her himself.
	www.oca.org /FSlivesAllSaintsPrint.asp?SID=4&M=9&D=30 (1994 words)

	AUB - Berytus Archeological Studies
		Before the advancing Seleucid army, Tiridates had to flee, and took refuge with the tribe of Apasiacae, in the Caspian steppe.
		Tiridates overrode the returning army, cut it to pieces, and was crowned at Asaac, a nearby station on the imperial road.
		Tiridates, we are told, ruled 37 years." Accordingly, he must have died in 211-0.
	almashriq.hiof.no /ddc/projects/archaeology/berytus-back/berytus08/82.html (496 words)

	Chapter Character Of Constantine And His Sons. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon
		The example of the massacres of the palace diffused a spirit of licentiousness and sedition among the troops of the East, who were no longer restrained by their habits of obedience to a veteran commander.
		But as many of the Armenian nobles still refused to abandon the plurality of their gods and of their wives, the public tranquillity was disturbed by a discontented faction, which insulted the feeble age of their sovereign, and impatiently expected the hour of his death.
		Unequal to the fatigues of war, averse to the society of mankind, he withdrew from his capital to a retired palace, which he built on the banks of the River Eleutherus, and in the centre of a shady grove; where he consumed his vacant hours in the rural sports of hunting and hawking.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/62/109/25660/10.html (603 words)

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