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Sophene (Armenian: Ծոփք, romanized: Tsopkʻ or Չորրորդ Հայք, lit. 'fourth Armenia';
Ancient Gr****: Σωφηνή, romanized:
Sōphēnē) was a
province of the ancient...
- The
Kingdom of
Sophene (Armenian: Ծոփք, romanized: Tsop’k’,
Ancient Gr****: Σωφηνή, romanized:
Sōphēnḗ), was a ****enistic-era
political entity situated...
- BC), the
Armenian throne was
divided in two—Greater
Armenia (state) and
Sophene—both of
which p****ed to
members of the
Artaxiad dynasty in 189 BC. During...
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Xerxes (Ancient Gr****: Ξέρξης; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠) was king of
Sophene and
Commagene from 228 BC to 212 BC. He was the son and
successor of Arsames...
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independent kingdom. Later, a
branch of the
Orontids ruled as
kings of
Sophene and Commagene. They are the
first of the
three royal dynasties that successively...
- was a city in
Armenian Sophene near the Tigris,
identified with the
modern town of Eğil. It was the
first capital of
Sophene until Arsames I founded...
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Sames I (also
spelled Samos I), was the
Orontid king of
Sophene and Commagene,
ruling around 260 BC. The name of "Samos" is
possibly derived from the...
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Mithrobouzanes was the
Orontid king of
Sophene in the
second half of the 2nd-century BC. His name (Μιθροβουζάνης) is the Gr****
transliteration of the...
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Tsopk Shahunyats was a
region in the
Sophene region of
ancient Greater Armenia c. 400–800, in the
Armenia Sophene or Sophanene. List of
regions of old...
- (more
commonly identified with Eğil), the
first capital of the
Kingdom of
Sophene. The
early Muslim geographers knew
Harput as Ḥiṣn Ziyād ("the fortress...
