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	Ancestors of Carl G. Lawrence, Jr. - Person Page 103 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Athenagenes of Armenia was the son of Yusik I of Armenia and Unknown of Armenia.
		Tiridates III of Armenia was the son of Tiridates II of Armenia.
		Khosrow III of Armenia was the son of Tiridates IV of Armenia and Ashken of Alania.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~lawrpaul/lawrancs-p/p103.htm (1370 words)

	Armenia (region) - MSN Encarta
		Armenia (region), historic region of western Asia, which in ancient times was an independent country comprising the southern Caucasus and northeastern Asia Minor.
		Tiridates was converted to Christianity in 303 and established a state church some 20 years before Roman emperor Constantine the Great made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
		The major enemies of medieval Armenia were the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuks, who overran the country in the 11th century.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555976/Armenia_(region).html (835 words)

	brief history of Armenia - world history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Armenia became a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire.
		Armenia's political heyday was under Tigranes the Great (95-55), who extended his rule to Cappadocia (central Anatolia) and to eastern Anatolia at a time when Rome was busy conquering Cilicia (south central Anatolia) and Parthia was defending its eastern frontiers against Indo-Iranian raiders.
		The status of Armenia was not defined although, as Pontus lay north of Armenia, Rome must have considered Armenia part of its sphere of influence.
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /a/armenia.html (440 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1151 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		He was made king of Armenia by his brother, but was driven out of the kingdom by Corbulo, the Roman general, and finally received the Armenian r.rown from Nero at Rome in A. d.
		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.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3485.html (935 words)

	Arsacid Dynasty of Armenia - (CAIS) ©
		Armenia was a highly aristocratic society, its peculiar feature being the presence, above the lesser, azat nobility, of a group of dynastic princes, descendants and successors of prehistoric tribal chiefs, who regarded themselves as minor kings and the king of Armenia as a primus utter pares.
		During one of the internal crises, the kingdom was divided in 384 between the pro-Roman Arsaces (Arsak) III and the pro-Iranian Chosroes (Xosrov) IV.
		Thereafter Armenia was a part of the Iranian empire, with the princes as its sovereign oligarchs, vassals of the distant great king, whose suzerainty expressed itself in the presence of his viceroy (marzpan) and in the obligation of fealty and military aid imposed on them.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/ashkanian/arsacid_armenia.htm (1004 words)

	Kingdoms of Anatolia - Armenia
		Armenia is generally understood to have included NE Turkey, the area covered by the modern republic of Armenia (the eastern part of ancient Armenia), and parts of Iranian Azerbaijan.
		Modern Armenia is the easternmost remnants of the former state(s).
		Armenia is divided by the war into (Greater) Armenia, Armenia Sophene and Little, or Lesser Armenia.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsMiddEast/AnatoliaArmenia.htm (1228 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Armenia
		Although the name "Armenia" occurs twice in the Vulgate, the regular biblical designation of the country is "Ararat", a name which is doubtless identical with the "Urartu" of the cuneiform inscriptions.
		Armenia is the name given to a mountainous strip of land situated in the southwestern portion of Asia.
		Armenia" by the Catholicos John VI came forth, covering the period from the origin of the nation to the year A.D. A contemporary of his, Annine of Mok, an abbot and the most celebrated theologian of the
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01736b.htm (3667 words)

	Armenia in brief
		The Republic of Armenia is situated at the eastern border of Turkey in the southern part of Caucasus.
		Armenia, situated on the crossing of roads between East and West, has always been a place of collisions between the great empires of antiquity and middle ages.
		Armenia is a real open-air museum both concerning monuments of nature and the cultural heritage - a country open for all.
	www.nuevavista.am /english/arm_brief.htm (764 words)

	Armenia
		Armenia's physical geography is affected primarily by the fact of it being landlocked and its mountainous locality.
		Armenia is famous worldwide for its fruits and vegetables, which due to specific soil and climatic conditions, high altitude of the terrain, and limited use of chemical fertilizers, acquire very rich and pleasant natural tastes.
		Armenia became one of the satrapies or provinces of the Persian empire until the defeat of Persia by Alexander the Great during the 4th century BC, when it came under the nominal suzerainty of the Seleucids.
	www.ingenial.com /extra/armenia.htm (2434 words)

	Armenia - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Armenia (country), republic in western Asia, bordered by Georgia on the north, Azerbaijan on the east and the Azerbaijani exclave of Naxçývan (Nakhichevan’) on the southwest, Iran on the south, and Turkey on the west.
		Armenia was the most ethnically homogeneous republic of the 15 republics that made up the USSR, and the country is still characterized by a high degree of ethnic homogeneity.
		Armenia’s constitution was approved by referendum in July 1995, replacing the 1978 constitution of the Soviet period.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /armenia.htm (4270 words)

	Armenia and Georgia, Culmen Europae
		Armenia has thus traditionally been regarded as the first officially Christian country, though, with uncertainties in dating, Ethiopia may be able to challenge this.
		The Kingdom of Armenia in the Taurus Mountains of Cilicia is called "Lesser" Armenia in contrast to the "Greater Armenia" of the Armenian homeland to the northeast.
		The Kingdom of Lesser Armenia was the last independent Armenian state until the former Soviet Republic of Armenia became independent in 1991.
	www.friesian.com /armenia.htm (4265 words)

	World InfoZone - Armenia Facts
		Armenia's Ararat Valley has been inhabited since the Stone Age and is one of the world's oldest settled regions.
		Armenia is said to be one of the first centres of metallurgy.
		Armenia is said to be the first country in the world to make Christianity a state religion.
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=Armenia (634 words)

	History - Armenia - Asia
		The modern republic of Armenia covers only the northeastern portion of an area historically inhabited by Armenians, whose ancestors settled in the area of Mount Ararat, in present-day Turkey, in the late 3000s bc.
		The Sassanids initially seized Armenia, but the Roman Empire wrested control of Armenia later that century and then restored the Arsacids to power, crowning Tiridates III as Armenian king.
		Tiridates converted to Christianity in the early 4th century and established a state church.
	www.countriesquest.com /asia/armenia/history.htm (413 words)

	b. Ardashir I to Shapur II. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		When the Armenian prince Tiridates was received by the Romans, Shapur attacked and began the second Roman war.
		During the reign of Narseh, the king of Armenia was converted to Christianity.
		On the death of Hormizd his natural heir, Hormizd III, was set aside by the nobility, who elected his posthumous son, the child Shapur II.
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	Relatives of D.T. Rogers(b. 1943) - pafg440 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		King Tiridates III of Armenia [Parents] was born in 260.
		King Khushraw II of Armenia [Parents] was born in 236.
		King Chosroes III of Armenia [Parents] was born in 280.
	www.geocities.com /dantrogers/pafg440.htm (136 words)

	RSACIDS, THE (Persian AÞka@n^a@n), Parthian dynasty which ruled Iran from about 250 B
		Tiridates was noted for his strict piety; and under him and his descendants Armenia became predominantly and devoutly Zoroastrian (see Armenia, religion.).
		Armenia was a highly aristocratic society, its peculiar feature being the presence, above the lesser, azat nobility, of a group of dynastic princes, descendants and successors of prehistoric tribal chiefs, who regarded themselves as minor kings and the king of Armenia as a primus inter pares.
		During one of the internal crises, the kingdom was divided in 384 between the pro-Roman Arsaces (ArÞak) III and the pro-Iranian Chosroes (Xosrov) IV.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v2f5/v2f5a012.html (13151 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 365 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Dertad or Tiridates II., surnamed Medz, the son of Chosroes, established by the Romans.— a.
		Cazavon in Roman Armenia, Chosroes or Khosrew III.
		Supposed on the authority of a coin to have been a king of Armenia about the time of Seleucus II., and conjectured to have been the founder of the city of Arsamosata.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0374.html (872 words)

	Armenia History
		The name Armenia was given to the country by the surrounding states, as it was the name of the strongest tribe living in the historic Armenian lands, who called themselves Armens.
		Armenian Kingdom Kingdom of Armenia at its greatest extent under the Artaxiad Dynasty after the conquests of Tigranes the Great, 80 BC After the destruction of the Seleucid Empire, a Hellenistic Greek successor state of Alexander the Great 's short-lived empire, a Hellenistic Armenian state was founded in 190 BC.
		Although the native dynasty of the Bagratids to which the Arabs gave the royal crown of Armenia, was founded under favourable circumstances, the feudal system gradually weakened the country by eroding loyalty to the central government.
	www.world66.com /europe/armenia/history (1941 words)

	History 112A Lecture Notes
		Armenia and the Empire of Alexander and the Seleucids (331-190 B.C.)
		The Martyrdom of Hripsime and Gayane and Tiridates' illness
		Gregory the Illuminator, Conversion of Tiridates, Cathedral at Etchmiadzin
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /history/hovannisian/classes/112a/98F/outlines.html (2218 words)

	Armenia - History
		In order that we may realize the real implications of the history of Armenia and grasp the soul of this people, we must turn our gaze upon the beginning of the 4th century, which was momentous in its consequences for the growth of the nation.
		King Tiridates III (Trdat), having been converted by Gregory the Illuminator, proclaimed Christianity as the religion of the state in 301 A.D. Thus, Armenia became the first nation to embrace Christianity officially.
		Armenia was made part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic in 1922, and in 1936, it became one of the Soviet Union's constituent republics.
	richardsmith.net /armenia/sako.html (2284 words)

	generation 15 ('stamoudgrootouders') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Hamazasp II [III] Mamikonian, prince or governor of Armenia 656-661, born circa 610 / 615 / 623, died circa 658 / 660, married:
		Vahan Mamikonian II [III] le Loup, prince of Taron, governor of Armenia 593-606, born circa 550 / 555, died circa 600
		Mousegh I Mamikonian [Moushegh], vice-king and parapet, governor of Armenia 591-593, born circa 525 / 530, died circa 593
	www.mythopedia.info /ancestry-armenia.htm (472 words)

	Urartu/Armenia
		From 550 onward, Armenia was a satrapy of the Achaemenid empire; the satrap had his palace in Yerevan (ancient name unknown).
		The western kingdom was known as Lesser Armenia under ruled by king Zariadris; the other state was called Greater Armenia and ruled by Zariadris' son Artaxias (189-164).
		The western part of Armenia became part of the Roman world and was included in the province of Cappadocia.
	www.livius.org /arl-arz/armenia/armenia.html (1414 words)

	loosavor: Armenia - Stone Worked to the Bone
		The temple was constructed in the 1st century AD by the King Tiridates I of Armenia and probably funded with money the king received from emperor Nero during his visit to Rome.
		Between 643 and 652 the Katholikos Nerses III (nicknamed the builder) built a majestic St. George cathedral at the place where a meeting between king Trdat III and Gregory the Illuminator was supposed to have taken place.
		Armenia holds some 3 billion cubic meters of tuff, an easily cut yet resilient material, and most buildings from the early Christian period forward are made from the orange, red, gold and fl varieties of tuff.
	loosavor.org /2006/06/armenia_-_stone_worked_to_the.html (1695 words)

	Church of Armenia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The Church of Armenia is one of the five so-called monophysite churches, characterised by their rejection of the doctrines of the Council of Chalcedon (451).
		In contrast to Chalcedon's doctrine that Christ is one person existing in two natures, the Church of Armenia affirms that Christ's humanity cannot be separated from his divinity.
		In about the year 300 the Armenian king, Tiridates III, was converted to Christianity by Gregory the Illuminator, a missionary from Cappadocia in Asia Minor, who would later become chief bishop of the Armenian church.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/christ/early/armen.html (465 words)

	Armenian Genocide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Armenia thus became the first nation to adopt Christianity as a state religion.
		Located near the capital of Yerevan in the Republic of Armenia, it is composed of (a) the Mother Cathedral of the entire Armenian Church; (b) a monastery and monastic brotherhood; (c) the residence of the Catholicos of All Armenians; and (d) various religious and cultural institutions, such as the Kevorkian Theological Seminary and a museum.
		Appearing as a heroic figure of light surrounded by a mighty angelic host, Christ struck the ground with a golden hamÂmer, indicating the place where the Mother Cathedral of the new Christian nation was to be established.
	www.armenianreality.org /en/armenian_church.htm (673 words)

	Armenia
		Tiridates III (238-314) was the first ruler to officially Christianize his people.
		During the era of the crusades, the the kingdom of Lesser Armenia, formed in Cilicia, helped the Christian knights until the kingdom was defeated by the Mamluk Turks in 1375.
		The economy of Armenia already is one of the poorest in Europe, with the average worker in this land-locked country of 3.3 million earning only $3 per day.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/for/armenia.html (774 words)

	Archbishop Malachia Ormanian, The Church of Armenia, Chapter III
		The date of the conversion of Armenia as a whole to Christianity, or, in other words, of the institution of that religion as the dominant one of the country, is commonly ascribed to the year 301, by the most careful chronological research.
		The date 301 is sufficient for our purpose to show that Armenia was the first state in the world to proclaim Christianity as its official religion, by the conversion of the king, the royal family, the satraps, the army, and the people.
		With the support of the emperor Diocletian, he ascended the throne for the last time in 287; and it was on the occasion of some votive festivities, organized at Eriza (Erzinguian) for the celebration of this event, that the faith and the family connection of Grigor were revealed to him.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/kamurj/Ormanian3.html (690 words)

	Welcome to AUA!
		Armenia became a formal member of the United Nations in March 1992 and of the Council of Europe in 2001, and has already established diplomatic representations in many capitals abroad.
		The Government of Armenia is expanding efforts to draft and enforce appropriate laws and regulations for further business development and entrepreneurship, to break up monopolies, to suppress corruption, and attract foreign investments.
		Armenia’s prosperity depends on the utilization of these factors, as well as the overall effectiveness of reforms and rapid integration into the global economic system.
	web.aua.am /faculty/armenia.html (5684 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Republic of Armenia Official Site
		The Christianization of Armenia determined the entire future course of Armenian history, as the unique National Church became distinctly identified with the Armenian people and formed the nation's spiritual and cultural heritage.
		The spiritual leadership of the Catholicos is not confined to Etchmiadzin and Armenia.
		According to the 5th century Armenian historian Agathangelos, soon after the declaration of Christianity in Armenia, St. Gregory the Illuminator had a vision of Christ descending in a flood of light and pointing to the site where the first Armenian church was established.
	www.armeniaforeignministry.com /arm/religion/main.html (1270 words)

	Armenian Church
		At the end of the 3d century, the king of Armenia, Tiridates III, was converted to Christianity by Saint Gregory the Illuminator.
		1970); Sarkassian, Karekin, The Council of Chalcedon and the Armenian Church (1965); Zahirsky, Valerie, The Conversion of Armenia (1985).
		Christianity was strengthened in Armenia by the translation of the Bible into the Armenian language by the Armenian monk and scholar St. Mesrob.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/armenian.htm (499 words)

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