Christianity first spread to Armenia prior to the official adoption of the faith in the early fourth century, although the details are obscure. In the...
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Garni Temple (category Archaeological sites in Armenia)
structure was probably built by King Tiridates I in the first century AD as a temple to the sun god Mihr. After Armenia's conversion to Christianity in the...
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Gregory the Illuminator (redirect from Catholicos Grigor I)
Caesarea of Cappadocia. Gregory returned to Armenia as an adult and entered the service of King Tiridates III, who had Gregory tortured after he refused...
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between the Armenian-Parthian and Roman armed forces in the spring of 62 in a place called Rhandeia. The Armenian army was led by Tiridates I the Parthian...
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Tigranes the Great (redirect from Tigranes II of Armenia)
Artavasdes I, Tigranes was given as a hostage to Mithridates II of Parthia after Armenia came under Parthian suzerainty. After ascending to the Armenian throne...
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gods to help her in her sorrow ("Sommi Dei"). She is married to Tiridate, King of Armenia, but he has conceived a mad passion for another woman, Zenobia...
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king in 51 and she became his queen. Armenians revolted soon after and, with the Parthian support of prince Tiridates I, forced both to flee back to Iberia...
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Argishti I (Armenian: Արգիշտի Ա), was the sixth known king of Urartu, reigning from 786 BC to 764 BC. He founded the citadel of Erebuni in 782 BC, which...
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Parthian Empire (section Rome and Armenia)
the later Tiridates I of Armenia, on the throne. Rhadamistus was eventually driven from power, and, beginning with the reign of Tiridates, Parthia would...
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San Lazzaro degli Armeni (category Culture of Armenia)
Noè Bordignon depicts the saint performing the baptism of the Armenian king Tiridates III. The altarpiece dedicated to the mother of Jesus depicts the...
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Rhadamistus (redirect from Rhadamistus of Armenia)
reputation and providing a principality for his brother Tiridates. He sent his large army into Armenia in 51, driving out the Iberians in 53. Rhadamistus regained...
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Tigranes, and Tiridates. Other names are either Urartian (Haldita- in the Bīsotūn inscription) or obscure and unknown in literate times in Armenia (Araxa- in...
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on Rome. He appears to have first invaded western Armenia, retaking the lands delivered to Tiridates in the peace of 287. He occupied the lands there until...
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successful campaign, Caracalla did eventually grant the Armenian crown to Tiridates II c. AD 217 and Armenia returned under Roman influence. In the reign of Macrinus...
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Oriental Orthodox Churches (section Armenian Apostolic)
Orthodox Syrian Church; the Armenian Apostolic Church comprising the autocephalous Catholicosate of Etchmiadzin in Armenia and the Catholicosate of Cilicia...
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Augustus' Eastern policy (category History of Armenia)
sent by the king of the Parthians arrived in Rome, demanding that both Tiridates II, the former Parthian ruler (who had taken refuge in Rome since 26 B...
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Italian). Vatican. "Dichiarazione Comune di Giovanni Paolo II e del Patriarca Siro d'Antiochia Moran Mar Ignatius Zakka I Iwas" [Joint Declaration of John Paul...
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Armenia in 83 BC, and ultimate overthrow by the Roman general Pompey in 63 BC. Contemporary sources, such as a loyalist decree honoring Antiochus I from...
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Ivan Aivazovsky (category Articles containing Armenian-language text)
masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based...
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placed his son Arshak on the throne of Armenia after Artaxias' death. However, Tiberius decided to send Tiridates, a descendant of the Arsacid dynasty held...
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(Parma, 1760) Alceste in Demetrio by Baldassare Galuppi (Padua, 1761) Tiridate in Zenobia by Giovanni Battista Pescetti (Padua, 1761) Megacle in L'Olimpiade...
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Dioscorus I (Greek: Διόσκορος Α΄ ὁ Ἀλεξανδρείας), also known as Dioscorus the Great, was the pope of Alexandria and patriarch of the See of St. Mark who...
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The Roman army (two legions) is defeated by the Parthians under king Tiridates I. Paetus surrenders and withdraws his disheveled army to Syria. A violent...
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capitalism. The first polity that formally embraced Christianity was Armenia under Tiridates III. However, the establishment of the civil order upheld by integralists...
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Early Christianity (section Armenia)
Tiridates III. The church traces its origins to the missions of Bartholomew the Apostle and Thaddeus (Jude the Apostle) in the 1st century. Tiridates...
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Ancient Near East (redirect from Early Bronze Age I)
Media, Parthia, and Persis), Anatolia and the Armenian highlands (Turkey's Eastern Anatolia Region, Armenia, northwestern Iran, southern Georgia, and western...
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ISBN 0-271-00531-9 Stuart Munro-Hay, "The Dating of Ezana and Frumentius", Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 32 (1988), pp. 111-127 Sergew Hable Sellassie. Ancient and...
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296. He appears to have first invaded western Armenia, where he seized the lands delivered to Tiridates in the peace of 287. He moved south into Roman...
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and Parthian intervention in the Iberian–Armenian War, a conflict which led Tiridates I to become King of Armenia with Parthian support. This was unacceptable...
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