Tigranes II, more commonly known as Tigranes the Great (Tigran Mets in Armenian; 140–55 BC), was a king of Armenia. A member of the Artaxiad dynasty,...

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...

Sophene, something completed by his grandson Tigranes the Great. At its peak, under Tigranes the Great, it incorporated, besides Armenia Major, Iberia...

The military campaigns of Tigranes the Great constituted offensives by Tigranes the Great, King of Armenia, against client kingdoms of the Roman and Parthian...

that Tigranes I ruled in 120 BC - 95 BC and this has been recently corroborated by historian Christian Marek. The name Tigránēs (Τιγράνης) is the Greek...

a city and the capital of the Armenian Kingdom between 77 and 69 BCE. It bore the name of Tigranes the Great, who founded the city in the first century...

Tigranes I (159–123 BC) Artavasdes I (123–95 BC) Tigranes the Great (Tigranes II, 95–55 BC) Artavasdes II (55–34 BC) Artaxias II (33–20 BC) Tigranes III...

Ashurbanipal, Artaxerxes III, Tigranes the Great, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Cambyses II, Xerxes and Darius the Great. For hundreds of years, the most generally accepted...

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...

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...

that this particular Tigranakert may have been founded by Tigranes the Great's father, Tigranes I (r. ca. 123–95 B.C.). It occupies an area of about 50...

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...

and the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great. The Roman force, led by Consul Lucius Licinius Lucullus, defeated Tigranes, and...

of the same name and was born and raised in the Kingdom of Pontus. She was the wife of the Armenian King Tigranes the Great. She married Tigranes in 94...

Empire extended from the Pontic Alps to Mesopotamia, and from the Caspian to the Mediterranean. Tigranes invaded as far southeast as the Parthian capital...

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...

Armenian Tigranes the Great (r. 95–55 BC). The apocryphal Book of Judith, which probably applies the name "Nebuchadnezzar" to Tigranes the Great of Armenia...

suzerainty. Sophene was conquered by the King of Greater Armenia, Tigranes II the Great c. 95 BCE, but Tigranes lost control over Sophene c. 69 BCE during...

Tigranes (Armenian: Տիգրան) was a legendary Armenian prince, who was a contemporary of the Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great (r. 550–530 BC). He appears...

Tigrane may refer to: Tigranes the Great (140 – 55 BC) King of Armenia Tigrane, opera by Antonio Maria Bononcini 1710 Tigrane (Scarlatti), 1715 opera...

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participated in the battle of Tigranocerta as an ally of the Armenian king Tigranes the Great (r. 95–55 BCE). However, coinage implies the establishment...

This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian e Bozorg...

the Han dynasty (d. 117 BC) Lucius Licinius Crassus, Roman consul and statesman (d. 91 BC) Su Wu, Chinese diplomat and statesman (d. 60 BC) Tigranes the...

inhabited by Armenians-notably within the city of Tigranakert, one of four cities named after Tigranes the Great in the ancient Armenian empire. Fan Kuai...

north of the Artaxata. The siege was organized by the Tigranes the Younger and Phraates III. In 66 BC Tigranes, son Tigranes the Younger, rebelled and...

Tigranocerta, the new capital of Tigranes's empire. Tigranes retreated to gather his forces. Lucullus laid siege to the city, and Tigranes returned with...

after a civil war, until their conquest by Tigranes the Great of Armenia in 83 BC, and ultimate overthrow by the Roman general Pompey in 63 BC. Contemporary...

as proconsul of Cilicia and the command of the Third Mithridatic War against Mithradates VI of Pontus and Tigranes the Great of Armenia. While he was on...

besieged the Romans at Rhodes. His neighbor to the southeast, the King of Armenia Tigranes the Great, established an alliance with Mithridates and married...