King of Sophene and Commagene from 228 BC to 212 BC
Xerxes
Coin of Xerxes, from around 220 BC
King of Sophene and Commagene
Reign
228 – 212 BC
Predecessor
Arsames I
Successor
Zariadres
Died
212 BC Sophene
Consort
Antiochis
Issue
Zariadres(?)
Dynasty
Orontid dynasty
Father
Arsames I
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 I.
Xerxes (Ancient Greek: Ξέρξης; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠) was king ofSophene and Commagene from 228 BC to 212 BC. He was the son and successor of Arsames...
Xerxes I (c. 518 – August 465 BC), commonly known as Xerxes the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire...
The Kingdom ofSophene (Armenian: Ծոփք, romanized: Tsop’k’, Ancient Greek: Σωφηνή, romanized: Sōphēnḗ), was a Hellenistic-era political entity situated...
Zariadres was a member of the Orontid dynasty, which ruled Armenia and Sophene. The preceding Orontid ruler ofSophene, Xerxes, was poisoned on Antiochus...
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Moon at Armavir. Xerxes, King of Armenia and Sophene 228 – 212 BC Orontes IV, King of Armenia 212 – 200 BC Mithrenes II, High Priest of the temple to the...
was a son of Artabanus who commanded the Medes in the army ofXerxes during the invasion of Greece. The satirist Lucian, in his True History, describes...
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the enlarged kingdom became divided in the next generation, Xerxes (228–212 BC) ruling Sophene and Commagene, while his brother Orontes IV (212–200 BC) ruled...
Kingdom of Armenia from 189 BC until their overthrow by the Romans in 12 AD. Their realm included Greater Armenia, Sophene and, intermittently, parts of Mesopotamia...
empire, and later as kings of Sophene and Commagene who eventually succumbed to the Roman Empire. The Orontids are the first of the three royal dynasties...
Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. Marciak, Michał (2017). Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene: Three Regna Minora of Northern Mesopotamia Between East and West. BRILL...
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Zariadres ofSophene with the Zareh of the inscriptions seems to be "the most straightforward interpretation." Strabo's information that the last ruler of Armenia...
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kings ofSophene and Commagene, which eventually succumbed to the Roman Empire. Following the demise of the Achaemenid Empire, the Satrapy of Armenia...
Inc., Journal of Roman Archaeology: Supplementary Series Number Eighteen, pp. 67–90, ISBN 978-1-887829-18-2 Marciak, Michał (2017). Sophene, Gordyene, and...
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order the death of Husik, who was beaten to death on Tiran's orders, because the Catholicos denied him entry to a church in Sophene on a feast day in...
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from the 5th century BC by Xerxes in his XV Inscriptions. Sometime during the early periods of Classical Antiquity, the use of Urartu declined and was fully...