• Orontes III (Old Persian: *Arvanta-) was King of Armenia. In his reign he struggled for control of the Kingdom of Sophene with king Antiochus II Theos...
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  • up Orontes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orontes (/ɔːˈrɒntiːz, oʊˈrɒn-/) may refer to: Orontes River, in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey Orontes, a mythological...
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    The Orontes (/ɔːˈrɒntiːz/; from Ancient Greek Ὀρόντης, Oróntēs) or Nahr al-ʿĀṣī, or simply Asi (Arabic: العاصي, romanized: al-‘Āṣī, IPA: [alˈʕaːsˤiː];...
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    Tiridates III (c. 250s – c. 330), also known as Tiridates the Great or Tiridates IV, was the Armenian Arsacid king from c. 298 to c. 330. In the early...
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  • Battle of Gaugamela under the command of Orontes and a certain Mithraustes. Diodorus mentions that Orontes was a friend of the Macedonian general Peucestas...
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    century AD.[citation needed] Antiochus III, King of the Seleucid Empire, instigated a revolt against Orontes, headed by Artaxias I. Aramaic inscriptions...
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    right. This list follows Toumanoff (1963) and Lang (2021) in considering Orontes II to be the first "king". Baumer, Christoph (2021). History of the Caucasus:...
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    Sophene and Armenia in the year 260 BC after the death of his grandfather Orontes III, king of Armenia, and his father Sames, king of Commagene. "Arsames"...
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    died in 321 BC and the Orontids returned, not as satraps, but as kings. Orontes III and the ruler of Lesser Armenia, Mithridates, recognized themselves independent...
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    under Darius III, and may in fact have succeeded Darius in this position when Darius ascended the throne of Persia in 336 BC. "Orontes" (Ancient Greek:...
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    original design. There are the seated Tyche of Antioch and the river god Orontes at her feet. Tigranes has long been recognized as the greatest of Armenian...
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    into Armenia through Utik and defeated Orontes' army at Eruandavan, located near the northern Akhurian River. Orontes then took refuge in his capital, Eruandashat...
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    II's son and successor Artaxerxes III (r. 358–338 BC) and gave him back the town. Orontes later died in 344 BC. Orontes is regarded as the ancestor of the...
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    According to Arrian, Perdiccas was the son of the Macedonian nobleman, Orontes, a descendant of the independent princes of the Macedonian province of...
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    Leo II or Leon II (occasionally numbered Leo III; Armenian: Լէոն Բ, Levon II; c. 1236 – 1289) was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from...
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    From a wife whose name is unknown, he had two sons: Artaxias II, Tigranes III, and a daughter who possibly married King Archelaus of Cappadocia. The memory...
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  • mention a man named Orontes, who was a Satrap of Armenia during the Second War of the Diadochi; Diodorus adds that this Orontes was a friend of Peucestas...
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    Richmond: Curzon. ISBN 0700714529. Grousset, René (1935). Histoire des Croisades III, 1188–1291 (in French). Editions Perrin. ISBN 2-262-02569-X. Grousset, René...
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    son of Isabella, daughter of Leo II of Armenia, and Amalric, a son of Hugh III of Cyprus, and was governor of Serres from 1328 until 1341. When his cousin...
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  • siege to the key fortress of Harenc. Prince Bohemond III of Antioch called upon Count Raymond III of Tripoli, Thoros and Konstantinos Kalamanos to come...
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    Cilicia. Leo left Antioch in December when az-Zahir's army reached the Orontes River. Thereafter until 1206, when Bohemond IV was able to return to Antioch...
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    Orontids Orontes II Orontes III Sames Arsames Arsames II Xerxes Orontes IV Artaxiads Artaxias I Artavasdes I Tigranes I Tigranes II Artavasdes II Artaxias...
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  • Ruben III[citation needed] (Armenian: Ռուբեն Գ), also Roupen III, Rupen III,[citation needed] or Reuben III, (1145 – Monastery of Drazark, May 6, 1187)[citation...
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    (1988). "Balāš". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume III/6: Baḵtīārī tribe II–Banān. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul....
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    Thoros III or Toros III (Armenian: Թորոս Երրորդ, same as Theodore; c. 1271 – 23 July 1298) was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1293...
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  • Yervand (section Orontes)
    Yervand II), son of Orontes I, ruler of the Satrapy of Armenia Orontes III (native Armenian name Yervand III), King of Armenia Orontes IV (native Armenian...
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    Orontids Orontes II Orontes III Sames Arsames Arsames II Xerxes Orontes IV Artaxiads Artaxias I Artavasdes I Tigranes I Tigranes II Artavasdes II Artaxias...
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    Leo III (or Leon III; Armenian: Լեւոն Գ, romanized: Levon III; occasionally numbered Leo IV; 1289–1307) was a young king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia...
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    Constantine III (also Constantine V; French: Constantin V d'Arménie; Armenian: Կոստանդին, Western Armenian transliteration: Gosdantin or Kostantine; April...
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  • Orontids Orontes II Orontes III Sames Arsames Arsames II Xerxes Orontes IV Artaxiads Artaxias I Artavasdes I Tigranes I Tigranes II Artavasdes II Artaxias...
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