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Sophene
Ծոփք
Provincia Sophene
Province of the ancient kingdom of Armenia
189 BC–530 AD.

Sophene in the south-west of the Kingdom of Armenia (spelled "Dzopk" in the Western Armenian dialect).
CapitalCarcathiocerta (Eğil), later Arshamashat (Elazığ)
History 
• Artaxias I declaring himself independent
189 BC
• Included in the province of Armenia
530 AD.

Sophene (Armenian: Ծոփք, romanized: Tsopkʻ or Չորրորդ Հայք, lit.'fourth Armenia'; Ancient Greek: Σωφηνή, romanized: Sōphēnē) was a province of the ancient kingdom of Armenia, located in the south-west of the kingdom, and of the Roman Empire. The region lies in what is now southeastern Turkey.[1]

  1. ^ The History of Rome By Theodor Mommsen, William Purdie Dickson.

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Sophene (Armenian: Ծոփք, romanized: Tsopkʻ or Չորրորդ Հայք, lit. 'fourth Armenia'; Ancient Greek: Σωφηνή, romanized: Sōphēnē) was a province of the ancient...

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Kingdom of Sophene

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Xerxes of Sophene

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Xerxes (Ancient Greek: 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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Zariadres

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ruler of Sophene in the early 2nd century BC. According to Strabo, he was a general of the Seleucid ruler Antiochus III who was made ruler of Sophene, although...

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Tsopk Shahunyats

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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...

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Carcathiocerta

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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

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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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Orontid dynasty

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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...

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Mithrobouzanes of Sophene

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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 Greek transliteration of the...

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List of catholicoi of all Armenians

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This is a list of the catholicoi of all Armenians (Armenian: Ամենայն Հայոց Կաթողիկոս), head bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church (Armenian: Հայ Առաքելական...

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Commagene

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Commagene formed part of a larger state that also included the Kingdom of Sophene. This situation lasted until c. 163 BC, when the local satrap, Ptolemaeus...

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Tigranes

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Tigranes the Younger, son of Tigranes the Great, briefly ruled the Kingdom of Sophene, 65 BC Tigranes III ruled 20–8 BC Tigranes IV ruled 8–5 BC and 2 BC – 1...

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Orontes III

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King of Armenia. In his reign he struggled for control of the Kingdom of Sophene with king Antiochus II Theos until being defeated in 272 BC and was forced...

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Syria

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Pliny the Elder describes as including, from west to east, Commagene, Sophene, and Adiabene. By Pliny's time, however, this larger Syria had been divided...

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Kurdistan

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corresponding modern names: Corduene or Gordyene (Siirt, Bitlis and Şırnak) Sophene (Diyarbakır) Zabdicene or Bezabde (Gozarto d'Qardu or Jazirat Ibn or Cizre)...

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Angeghtun

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may have also been the site of Carcathiocerta, capital of the Kingdom of Sophene, and the settlement Ingalawa mentioned in Hittite records. Angeghtun bordered...

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Xerxes

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486–465 BC Xerxes II of Persia, briefly reigned 424 BC Xerxes of Sophene, ruler of Sophene and Commagene, 228–201 BC Xerxes (Sasanian prince), 6th-century...

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List of regions of ancient Armenia

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cantons to fall under Byzantine rule and was known as Anzitene (Greek: Ἀνζιτηνή). Balahovit Degik Gavrek Hashtyank Khordzyan Lesser Sophene Paghnatun...

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Hellenistic period

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the country was divided into two kingdoms, Greater Armenia and Armenia Sophene, including Commagene or Armenia Minor. The kingdoms became so independent...

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Artaxiad dynasty

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overthrow by the Romans in 12 AD. Their realm included Greater Armenia, Sophene and, intermittently, parts of Mesopotamia. Their main enemies were the...

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Baras

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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Baras may refer to: Baras (Sophene), a town of ancient Sophene, in Mesopotamia Baras, Catanduanes, a municipality in the...

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Artsruni dynasty

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ruled Sophene as independent kings until Tigranes annexed Sophene to Greater Armenia. The Artsrunis are supposed to have ruled continued to rule Sophene, giving...

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Pope John Paul II

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consecrator and as co-consecrators Bishop Bolesław Kominek (titular bishop of Sophene), auxiliary of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wrocław, and Franciszek Jop...

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Sasanian Empire

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the five satrapies between the Tigris and Armenia: Ingilene, Sophanene (Sophene), Arzanene (Aghdznik), Corduene, and Zabdicene (near modern Hakkâri, Turkey)...

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Arsames I

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Ἀρσάμης; Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠𐎶) seems to have taken control of Commagene, Sophene and Armenia in the year 260 BC after the death of his grandfather Orontes...

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Corduene

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weakened by dynastic feuds Tigranes extended his power by the annexation of Sophene and the Submission of Gordyene under its prince. Districts of Cordyene...

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Artaxias I

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Zariadres who became ruler of Sophene according to Strabo. Michał Marciak argues that identifying Zariadres of Sophene with the Zareh of the inscriptions...

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