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	Parthia - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was inhabited by an Iranian tribe, the Parthava of the inscriptions of Darius; the correct Greek form is HapOvaioc.
		Parthia became a province of the Achaemenian and then of the Macedonian Empire.
		But Seleucus was soon recalled by a rebellion in Syria, and Arsaces returned victorious to Parthia; " the day of this victory is celebrated by the Parthians as the beginning of their independence " (Justin xli.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Parthia (1218 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 357 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the instigation of Monaeses, Antony resolved to invade Parthia, and promised Monaeses the kingdom.
		Upon his death the Parthians applied to the Romans for Vonones, one of the sons of Phraates IV., who was accordingly granted to them.
		Artabanus was at first defeated, but afterwards drove Vonones out of Parthia, who then took refuge in Armenia, of which he was chosen king.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0366.html (1055 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Annals by Tacitus
		Vonones himself too further provoked their disdain, by his contrast with their ancestral manners, by his rare indulgence in the chase, by his feeble interest in horses, by the litter in which he was carried whenever he made a progress through their cities, and by his contemptuous dislike of their national festivities.
		The conquered Vonones found a refuge in Armenia, then a free country, and exposed to the power of Parthia and Rome, without being trusted by either, in consequence of the crime of Antonius, who, under the guise of friendship, had inveigled Artavasdes, king of the Armenians, then loaded him with chains, and finally murdered him.
		Vonones was removed to Pompeiopolis, a city on the coast of Cilicia.
	classics.mit.edu /Tacitus/annals.2.ii.html (10829 words)

	History of Iran: Parthian Empire
		After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire, Parthia, northeastern Iran, was governed by the Seleucid kings: a Macedonian dynasty that ruled in the Asian territories of the former Persian Empire.
		In the confusion, Parthia was overrun by the Parni, a nomad tribe from the Central-Asian steppe.
		Parthia, now impoverished and without any hope to recover the lost territories, was demoralized.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/parthians/parthians.php (1968 words)

	1St Century A.D.: The People's Chronology
		Parthia's Vonones I is deposed after a 4-year reign as Artabanus II routs the king's forces.
		Parthia's Artabanus II is deposed after a 28-year reign in which most of his time has been spent suppressing rebellions, obliging him at one time to live as a hunter among the Scythians.
		Parthia's Vardanes I is assassinated by a brother during a hunt; the brother will reign until 51 as Gotarzes II, exercising such cruelty that several rebellions will be mounted against his rule.
	history.enotes.com /peoples-chronology/year-1st-century-d (8117 words)

	Detail Page
		King of Parthia; the son of King Phraates IV and ruler of the Parthian Empire from ca.
		Vonones had been one of the children sent to Rome to serve as a hostage of good faith and to prevent his murder at the hands of his own family.
		Tiberius, however, detested him and with Artabanus promising war if Vonones was not restrained, Creticus Silanus, governor of Syria, was ordered to arrest the fallen king.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=ROME1890 (277 words)

	RSACIDS, THE (Persian AÞka@n^a@n), Parthian dynasty which ruled Iran from about 250 B
		A fourth account alleges that “the Persian” Andragoras whom Alexander left as satrap of Parthia was the ancestor of the subsequent kings of Parthia (Justin 12.4.12).
		Vonones withdrew to Armenia where he occupied the vacant throne for a short time, probably with Roman approval.
		J. Wolski, “The Decay of the Iranian Empire of the Seleucids and the Chronology of the Parthian Beginnings,” Berytus 12, 1956-58, pp.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v2f5/v2f5a012.html (13151 words)

	The Annals book 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		About the same time, Vonones, who, as I have related, had been banished to Cilicia, endeavoured by bribing his guards to escape into Armenia, thence to Albania and Heniochia, and to his kinsman, the king of Scythia.
		Quitting the sea-coast on the pretence of a hunting expedition, he struck into trackless forests, and was soon borne by his swift steed to the river Pyramus, the bridges over which had been broken down by the natives as soon as they heard of the king's escape.
		Germanicus meanwhile, as he was returning from Egypt, found that all his directions to the legions and to the various cities had been repealed or reversed.
	www.earth-history.com /Roman/roman-tacitus-annals-book-02.htm (15451 words)

	Parthia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Parthia was led by the Arsacid dynasty, who reunited and ruled over the Iranian plateau, taking over the eastern provinces of the Greek Seleucid Empire, beginning in the late 3rd century BCE, and intermittently controlled Mesopotamia between ca 150 BCE and 224 CE.
		Parthia (mostly due to their invention of heavy cavalry) was the arch-enemy of the Roman Empire in the east; and it limited Rome's expansion beyond Cappadocia (central Anatolia).
		In 41 BCE Parthia, led by Labienus, invaded Syria, Cilicia, and Caria and attacked Phrygia in Asia Minor.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Parthia (3135 words)

	Persian Empire By Pejman Azadi - The Parthia (Ashkanian) Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Following Zhang Qian's embassy and report, commercial relations between China, Central Asia, and Parthia flourished, as many Chinese missions were sent throughout the 1st century BCE: "The largest of these embassies to foreign states numbered several hundred persons, while even the smaller parties included over 100 members...
		envoy first visited the kingdom of Anxi (Parthia), the king of Anxi dispatched a party of 20,000 horsemen to meet them on the eastern border of the kingdom...
		The kings were forced to concede greater powers to the nobility, and the vassal kings began to waver in their allegiance.
	pejman.azadi.googlepages.com /theparthia(ashkanian)empire (2173 words)

	parthian - Qwika
		Parthia Tiridates III of Parthia ruled the Parthian Empire briefly in 35–36.
		Parthia Pacorus II of Parthia ruled the Parthian Empire from about 78 to 105.
		Parthia Gotarzes II of Parthia ruled the Parthian Empire intermittently between about 40 and 51...
	www.qwika.com /find/parthian?int=140 (389 words)

	Vonones I (c. A.D. 8 - 12)
		A.D. The tetradrachms and drachms of Vonones depart from the usual Parthian design, possibly due to his education and residence in Rome.
		McDowell (1935) came to a similar conclusion based on his analysis of bronze coins minted by the autonomous mint of Seleucia.
		Robert Gonnella, "New Evidence for Dating the Reign of Vonones I (8/9 to 11/22 A.D.)".
	www.parthia.com /vonones1.htm (981 words)

	Parthian Dynasty
		The kingdom of the Parthians is usually called Parthia.
		Despite internal stability, the northeastern borders were often under nomad attack, and a wider area suffered from repeated attacks by the Scythians.
		Around 330 BCE: Parthia is joined by Hyrcania, being one province under the Seleucid kingdom.
	i-cias.com /e.o/parthian_dyn.htm (339 words)

	IRANIAN HISTORY: PARTHIANS: Dynasty of Arsacid Empire - (CAIS) ©
		This Mithridates and his successors achieved in a series of campaigns against the Seleucid invaders and later the Romans in the west, and in the east against the Greco-Bactrian kingdom and the nomadic peoples who again and again emerged from the steppes between the Oxus and the Jaxartes.
		After this Artabanus gave way, with the result that about 18/19, amicable relations were apparently re-established on the pattern of the treaties concluded in 20 B.C. and I B.C. The main loser was Vonones who was deported to Cicilia by the Romans and died there in A.D. 19 when attempting to escape.
		One instance of this was the accession of Mithridates I. It was customary for the eldest son to succeed to the throne, but in this case Phraates 1 passed over his numerous sons and appointed as king his brother Mithridates.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/ashkanian/arsacid_dynasty.htm (7151 words)

	Ancient coins of Parthia
		C., Parthia, 1903 (with references to the works of Prokesch, Longpérier, Markoff, and, especially, P. Gardner’s Parthian Coinage, 1877); Ritter A. von Petrowicz, Arsaciden-Münzen, Wien, 1904 (a Catalogue of the Petrowicz Coll.).
		A minute study of the monograms and fabric and a careful record of finds and provenance are much needed to throw light on the obscure subject of Parthian mint-places (cf.
		The classification of the Arsacid coinage is far from certain, more especially in the period before Phraates IV, when the coins are, as a rule, undated, and only the dynastic name (‘Arsaces’) of each sovereign is recorded.
	www.snible.org /coins/hn/parthia.html (717 words)

	PARTHIA - Online Information article about PARTHIA
		2)., In 208 many Greek inhabitants are found in the towns of Parthia and Hyrcania (Polyb.
		Hierax, enabled him not only to maintain himself in Parthia, but also to conquer Hyrcania; but he was constantly threatened by Diodotus of Bactria (Justin xli.
		British Museum (London, 1903), who carefully revised the statements of his predecessors.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAI_PAS/PARTHIA.html (1629 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 362 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Erato was deposed by the Armenians after a short reign, and the throne remained vacant for several years, till the Armenians at length chose Vonones as their king, the son of Phraates IV., and the exiled king of Parthia.
		16.) Vonones maintained himself but one year on the throne, as he was compelled to fly into Syria through fear of Artabanus III., the king of Parthia.
		about two years after Vonones had fled into Syria.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0371.html (1045 words)

	Bibliography Page 26
		Abstract: In connection with a discussion of the Apollo temple of Seleucia on the Tigris, Black notes Hermias of Methymna mentions in passing that a festival of Apollo Komalos was celebrated at Naukratis in Egypt; see J. Black, "The History of Parthia and Characene in the Second Century A.D.", p.
		A new art of war was thus created in Central Asia combining nomadic light cavalry tactics (Parthia) with heavy cavalry (Cataphract), the equivalent of a modem-day tank.
		Abstract: Subscribed to same theory as Bachhofer's -- that Vonones, "Great King of Kings," who struck coins in conjunction with his viceroys, Spalahores and Spalagadames, was identical with Vonones I of Parthia, 8/9-11/12 A.D. (Bachhofer, "On Greeks and Sakas in India," 223ff.).
	www.parthia.com /webreport_26.htm (1387 words)

	Detail Page
		King of Parthia for only a few months in 51.
		Following the demise of King Gotarzes II, the throne of Parthia was vacant, largely because Gotarzes had killed virtually every possible claimant to ensure that no rivals could murder him.
		Vonones, the head of the vassal state of Media Atropatene, was given the throne by the Parthian nobility but died after a brief time and was succeeded by his son, Vologases I. Two other sons, Pacorus and Tiridates, eventually became kings of Media Atropatene and Armenia, respectively.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=ROME1891 (104 words)

	Parthia Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		GREEK COINAGE - Kings of Parthia, Vardanes I, 40-45 BC PARTHIA, Phraatakes, AR Tetradrachm.
		PARTHIA - VOLOGASES VI - Drachm - Ekbatana
		PARTHIA - PHRAATES III - Drachm, VF - Rhagae mint
	kyleoswald.com /parthia.html (221 words)

	Central Asia Ancient Coin Ancient Greek Coin Gold Persia Ancient Coin Roman Ancient Coin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Parthia, Gotarzes I, 95-87 BC, AR Drachm (4.17g).
		Parthia, Orodes I, 90-77 BC, AR Drachm, fouree (2.7g).
		Parthia, Orodes I, 90-77 BC, AR Drachm (3.7g).
	www.ancient-art.com /east.htm (8256 words)

	Kings
		ARSACID KINGS OF PARTHIA, 67 B.C.-80 A.D. Phraates III (c.
		Gotarzes II favored by Rome against "national" candidates Vardanes II and Vonones** II.
		8-18 A.D.; exiled King Vonones I of Parthia dominated Armenia c.
	www.tulane.edu /~august/handouts/601kings.htm (274 words)

	Ancient Imports - Lot Info: #12598 F/F Kings of Parthia Vonones II AE Dichalkon / Zeus
		Ancient Imports - Lot Info: #12598 F/F Kings of Parthia Vonones II AE Dichalkon / Zeus
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		#12598 F/F Kings of Parthia Vonones II AE Dichalkon / Zeus
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	From Cyrus the Great to Shah Esma'il I Safavi
		21) ?Tiridates I king of Parthia 30 & 27-25 B.C. 22) Unknown king of Media m.a dau.
		of Phraates IV king of Parthia 38-2 B.C. 23) Artabanus III king of Parthia 10-40 A.D. 24) Vonones II king of Parthia 45-51 A.D. 25) Vologases II king of Parthia 51-78
		28) Vologases V king of Parthia 148-191 m.a dau.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/676189 (495 words)

	Ancient Imports - The Parthian Empire
		#14953 gF/gF Parthia Mithradates II AE18 / Pegasus
		#12612 VF/VF Kings of Parthia Vologases III AE Dichalkon / Bust of Tyche
		#14952 F/F Parthia Vologases VI AE10 Chalkous Ekbetara mint / Eagle
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	~Vologaeses I "King" of Parthia/? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)*
		Born: at: abt 25 AD 77-81 Married: at: Died: at: abt 80 AD Father:~Vonones II "King" of Parthia* Mother:~*?
		Name: ~Vologaeses II "King" of Parthia* Born: at: abt 55 AD 76-41 Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: ?
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