The Orontid dynasty, also known as the Eruandids or Eruandunis, ruled the Satrapy of Armenia until 330 BC and the Kingdom of Armenia from 321 BC to 200 BC. The Orontids ruled first as client kings or satraps of the Achaemenid Empire and after the collapse of the Achaemenid Empire established an 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 ruled the antiquity-era Kingdom of Armenia (321 BC–428 AD).
^Garsoian 2005.
^Garsoian, Nina (2004). "ARMENO-IRANIAN RELATIONS in the pre-Islamic period". Encyclopaedia Iranica. However, the recent discovery in Armenia of boundary stones with Aramaic inscriptions, in which the ruler Artašēs proclaims himself "the son of Zareh" and an "Eruandid king" (Perikhanian, 1966), demonstrates that both "generals" [Artaxias and Zariadris], far from being Macedonians, belonged in fact to the earlier native dynasty, albeit probably to collateral branches, and that the Eruandids, or Artaxiad/Artašēsids as they came to be known, with their Iranian antecedents, continued to rule Armenia as before. An unexpected corroboration of this dynastic continuity is also provided by Xenophon's much earlier choice of the name "Tigranes" for the crown prince of Armenia in his historical romance, the Cyropaedia (Xen., Cyr. 3.1.7). (...) Except for the occasional princes imposed by the Romans, none of whom succeeded in consolidating himself on the throne, all the dynasties to rule pre-Islamic Armenia were of Iranian stock.
^Chahin, M. (2001). The Kingdom of Armenia: A History. Psychology Press. p. 226. ISBN 978-0700714520. The Artsruni Princes were, like the Artaxiads, related to the ancient Orontid line.
The Orontiddynasty, also known as the Eruandids or Eruandunis, ruled the Satrapy of Armenia until 330 BC and the Kingdom of Armenia from 321 BC to 200...
212 BC, son of Arsames Orontes IV, 212–200 BC, son of Arsames? The Orontiddynasty lost power in 200 BC due to a revolt instigated by the Seleucid Empire...
royal capital." The Iron Age kingdom of Urartu was replaced by the Orontiddynasty, which ruled Armenia first as satraps under Achaemenid Persian rule...
Artashes toppled the Orontiddynasty and declared their independence, with Artaxias becoming the first king of the Artaxiad dynasty of Armenia in 188 BC...
translation (see: Name of Armenia). Armenia emerged as a kingdom under the Orontiddynasty (Armenian: Երվանդունի Yervanduni) in 570 BC, but had become a subject...
called Armenia in Old Persian. The region came under the control of the Orontiddynasty of Armenia in the 7th century BC and later Persians in the mid-6th...
political entity situated between ancient Armenia and Syria. Ruled by the Orontiddynasty, the kingdom was culturally mixed with Greek, Armenian, Iranian, Syrian...
instead that the Bagratunis were descended from the Orontids, the first identifiable ruling dynasty of ancient Armenia. After the 7th-century Arab conquest...
Iranian religious or epic lore amongst the Orontids. The Kingdom of Sophene was ruled by the Orontiddynasty of Iranian origin, which was descended from...
called Armenia by neighbouring populations was established under the OrontidDynasty within the Achaemenid Empire, as part of the latter's territories....
Artaxiad dynasty of Armenia, ruling from 189 BC to 160 BC. Artaxias was a member of a branch of the Orontiddynasty, the earlier ruling dynasty of Armenia...
was a legendary king of Armenia, who was the personification of the Orontiddynasty. Orontes appears in both in the Cyropaedia of the Greek soldier and...
distinct dynasties - the Orontiddynasty, the Artaxiad dynasty, and the Arsacid dynasty of Armenia. During the reign of the Orontiddynasty, Armenia became...
Artsrunis obscured their Orontid origins with a genealogical myth drawn from the Bible. During the reign of the Arsacid dynasty over Armenia, the Artsrunis...
the Hellenistic period. Orontes I (died 344 BC), the ancestor of the Orontiddynasty, was descended from Hydarnes. According to some Persepolis tablets...
the Orontiddynasty. Some historians believe that the Orontid kings were of Armenian or Urartian origin. In addition, historians believe the dynasty may...
his ship is swallowed by a whirlpool various members of the Armenian Orontiddynasty (their name, also rendered as Orontas, Orondes, Aroandes, is the Hellenized...
Sophene, although most scholars believe that he was a member of the Orontiddynasty, which ruled Armenia and Sophene. After the Seleucids were defeated...
Cyril Toumanoff has implied, their overlords in holding in check the Orontiddynasty of neighboring Armenia. Pharnavaz is supposed by Toumanoff to have...
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controlled much of the region, until it was overthrown by the Medes and Orontiddynasty. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the land of Aratta is placed in a geographic...
their immediate west. Taxation districts of the Achaemenid Empire Orontiddynasty Suzerainty Cahn, Herbert A.; Gerin, Dominique (1988). "Themistocles...
Orontes I (died 344 BC), the satrap of the Armenia and ancestor of the Orontiddynasty. The career of Artasyrus is obscure. According to the Greek historian...
of Commagene. Antiochus was half Iranian, a distant member of the Orontiddynasty and half Greek. Antiochus' father Mithridates was the son of King Sames...
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