the throne. Vardanes' short reign ended when he was assassinated while hunting at the instigation of a party of Parthian nobles . "Vardanes" (also spelled...

Vardanes was the name of two kings of Parthia: Vardanes I (c. 40–47) Vardanes II (c. 55–58) Vardane Microdistrict, a microdistrict of the city of Sochi...

publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Vardanes s.v. Vardanes II.". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University...

able to gain control of most of Parthia forcing Vardanes to flee to Bactria. With the death of Vardanes in c. 46, Gotarzes II ruled the Parthian Empire...

Darius I (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš; c. 550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid...

Ahmose I (Amosis, Aahmes; meaning "Iah (the Moon) is born") was a pharaoh and founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt in the New Kingdom of Egypt,...

son, Vardanes I, whose reign was still more turbulent than that of his father. Artabanus II had four sons: Arsaces I, Orodes, Artabanus, Vardanes I and...

defeated at Nam Viet. Vietnam is designated a province of China. King Vardanes I of Parthia forces the city of Seleucia on the Tigris to surrender. In...

Seleucus I Nicator (/sɪˈluːkəs/; Greek: Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ, Séleukos Nikátōr, lit. 'Seleucus the Victorious'; c. 358 BC – 281 BC) was a Macedonian Greek...

Hyrcania. Artabanus III retrieved the throne and was succeeded by his son Vardanes I in 38 AD, however, Gotarzes unsuccessfully attempted to usurp the throne...

Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, Roman politician Pomponius Mela, Roman geographer (approximate date) Vardanes I, king of the Parthian Empire (approximate date)...

Nebuchadnezzar I (/ˌnɛbjʊkədˈnɛzər/ NEB-yuu-kəd-NEZ-ər; Babylonian: mdNabû-kudurrī-úṣur (AN-AG-ŠA-DU-ŠIŠ) or mdNábû-ku-dúr-uṣur, meaning "Nabû, protect...

Germanic Quadi tribe begin settling in present-day Moravia and Slovakia. Vardanes I becomes king of Parthia, opposed by his brother Gotarzes II. The Vietnamese...

Crispus Passienus, Roman consul Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Roman nobleman Quintus Sanquinius Maximus, Roman politician Vardanes I, king of the Parthian Empire...

philosopher Apollonius of Tyana visited the court of Vardanes I (r. c. 40–47 AD) in 42 AD, Vardanes provided him with the protection of a caravan as he...

Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek) was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period, ruling c. 1294 or 1290...

marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Wahibre Psamtik I (Ancient Egyptian: Wꜣḥ-jb-Rꜥ Psmṯk) was the first pharaoh of the Twenty-sixth...

may represent Vardanes I as he sought refuge, and possibly an alliance, in Bactria at the Yuezhi court. Tacitus related that Vardanes "took refuge among...

Germanic Quadi tribe begin settling in present-day Moravia and Slovakia. Vardanes I becomes king of Parthia, opposed by his brother Gotarzes II. The Vietnamese...

right thigh and throws it in Ishtar's face, saying, "If I could lay my hands on you, it is this I should do to you, and lash your entrails to your side...

place in pharaoh Ahmose I's reign (c. 1550–1525 BC), actually by Amenemhet's father. During the reign of pharaoh Thutmose I (1506–1493 BC), the names...

BC Mithridates (III) c. 88–67 BC Orodes I c. 80–75 BC Sanatruces c. 77–70 BC Unknown king (probably Vardanes (I)) c. 77–66 BC Phraates III c. 70–57 BC...

genealogy of the Achaemenids) the kings of Anshan were Teispes, Cyrus I, Cambyses I and Cyrus II, also known as Cyrus the Great, who founded the empire...

appointed me as his gardener. While I was gardener Ishtar granted me her love, and for four and (fifty?) ... years I exercised kingship. Later claims made...

obverse side of a coin of Orodes II of Parthia (r. 57–37 BC). Coin of Vardanes I of Parthia (r. c. AD 40–45) Coin of the Sasanian king Kavad II, minted...

region of Parthia for roughly a century at that point, founded by Arsaces I) until the defeat of the last Parthian king, Artabanus IV, at the Battle of...

Ahmose I and Thutmose I at the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty, as recorded in the tombs of Ahmose, son of Ebana and Ahmose pen-Nekhebet; Thutmose I is...

Antiochus I Soter (Greek: Ἀντίοχος Σωτήρ, Antíochos Sōtér; "Antiochus the Savior"; c. 324/3 – 2 June 261 BC) was a Greek king of the Seleucid Empire....

statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. Yet for the sake of David your father I will not...

"The black-headed peoples I ruled, I governed; mighty mountains with axes of bronze I destroyed. I ascended the upper mountains; I burst through the lower...