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    Tigranes the Younger was an Artaxiad prince, who briefly ruled the Kingdom of Sophene in 65 BC. Tigranes the Younger was the son and heir of the Artaxiad...
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    Tigranes II, more commonly known as Tigranes the Great (Tigran Mets in Armenian; Ancient Greek: Τιγράνης ὁ Μέγας, Tigránes ho Mégas; Latin: Tigranes Magnus;...
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  • earliest Tigranes and his son are usually not included, making Tigranes I the father of Tigranes the Great. Another Tigranes was a member of the Achaemenid...
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    military aid. Around the same time, Tigranes' namesake son and heir, Tigranes the Younger, fell out with his father and fled to the court of Phraates III...
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    Pompey invaded Armenia supported by Tigranes the Younger, whose father quickly came to terms; in return for the restoration of Armenian territories taken...
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    Artavasdes II of Armenia (category People of the War of Actium)
    to 34 BC. A member of the Artaxiad dynasty, he was the son and successor of Tigranes the Great (r. 95–55 BC), who ascended the throne of a still powerful...
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    Tigranes II submitted to Rome as a client king, Tigranes the Younger was brought to Rome as a hostage. Phraates demanded Pompey return Tigranes the Younger...
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    Sophene (category States and territories established in the 2nd century BC)
    to Tigranes the Younger in 66 BCE after defeating his father Tigranes the Great, then transferred it to Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia. Around 54, the Romans...
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    In 66 BC, Pompey captured the younger Tigranes and took him to Rome as a hostage. Tigranes later escaped in 58 BC with the assistance of Publius Clodius...
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    Artaxias I (190–159 BC) Tigranes I (159–123 BC) Artavasdes I (123–95 BC) Tigranes the Great (Tigranes II, 95–55 BC) Tigranes the Younger (65 BC) Artavasdes...
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    Kingdom of Sophene (category States and territories established in the 3rd century BC)
    Rome. After Tigranes II was defeated by the Romans, Pompey installed Tigranes' son Tigranes the Younger as ruler of Sophene, then ceded the kingdom to...
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  • "The Elder" and "the Younger" are epithets generally used to distinguish between two individuals, often close relatives. In some instances, one of the...
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  • and custodian of Tigranes the Younger of Armenia. Celer vigorously repulsed Oroeses while Flaccus and Pompey, who were in charge of the other two divisions...
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    kingdom Tigranes [Tigrans V, ca. A.D. 6], who was sprung from the royal family of the Armenians. [Res Gestae Divi Augusti, V. xxvi. pp.390/1] Tigranes was...
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    ruled from 20 BC until 8 BC. Tigranes III died before 8 BC. In 8 BC, the Armenians installed Tigranes IV as King as the successor to his father. In accordance...
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    her to befriend Tigranes, invite him to Media and then kill him. Informed of the plot by his sister, Tigranes marched against Media at the head of a large...
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  • Wiesbaden, pp. 117-126, 2012 Tekin, Oguz, "The Coins from Üçtepe with a Problematic Emission of Tigranes the Younger", Epigraphica Anatolica, vol. 20, pp....
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  • branch of the Orontid dynasty Artavasdes I, c. 160–c. 120 BC, son of Artaxias I Tigranes I, c. 120–c. 95 BC, son of Artavasdes I Tigranes II "the Great"...
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    captured by the Persian commander Chrysantas. The Armenians panicked at the approach of Cyrus, who captured their "king". Tigranes, the elder son of the "king"...
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  • Tigranes II of Armenia is broken. Tigranes II is forced to surrender, by a payment of 6,000 talents, and is reinstated by Pompey as a "friend of the Roman...
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    Cappadocia (Roman province) (category Provinces of the Roman Empire)
    installed on the throne in 95 BC, Cappadocia became a client kingdom under the Roman Republic. In 93 BC, troops from Armenia under Tigranes the Great, son-in-law...
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    Third Mithridatic War (category 1st century BC in the Roman Republic)
    difference, Mithridates and Tigranes stuck to their strategy and refused to march against Lucullus; Tigranes was in the process of taking back southern...
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    state in Syria, until their conquest by Tigranes the Great of Armenia in 83 BC, and ultimate overthrow by the Roman general Pompey in 63 BC. Contemporary...
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  • prince. Alexander was the second born son of Alexander and Glaphyra. His oldest brother was called Tigranes and had a younger unnamed sister. His father...
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    Alexander, son of Herod (category Children of Herod the Great)
    marriage the Cappadocian Princess Glaphyra, the daughter of King Archelaus of Cappadocia. Glaphyra bore Alexander three children, two sons: Tigranes, Alexander...
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  • Roberto Clerici the Younger (Parma, active 1711–1748) was an Italian painter and scenic designer of the Baroque, active in Parma, Vienna, Venice, Naples...
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    Cleopatra Selene of Syria (category Queens consort of the Ptolemaic dynasty)
    until Tigranes II besieged her in 69 BC in Ptolemais; the Armenian king captured the queen and later executed her. By the second century BC, the Seleucid...
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    successor, invited Tigranes II of Armenia to take the city. While the invasion of Tigranes II is traditionally dated to 83 BC, the year most scholars...
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  • also named Tigranes. Upon the outbreak of hostilities between the Medes and Babylonians, Tigranes had renounced his treaty obligations to the Medes. As...
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    is left to the people of Rome by its ruler Ptolemy Apion. 96 BC: King Alexander Jannaeus of Judea wins the Siege of Gaza. 95 BC: Tigranes the Great becomes...
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