Roman Armenia

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The short-lived Roman province of Armenia in AD 117, north of Mesopotamia

As Roman Armenia this is from the end of the 1st century BC. In parts or as a whole to the Roman Empire and its successor, the Eastern Roman / Byzantine Empire , Armenia, which in ancient times was much larger than the modern state of Armenia .

The Kingdom of Greater Armenia was in the sphere of interest of Rome and the Parthian Empire , with several military conflicts. Between 114 and 118 AD, Emperor Trajan established the short-lived province of Armenia , which was administered by a governor together with Cappadocia . Lucius Catilius Severus is occupied in this office . The attempt at Parthian influence in the Kingdom of Armenia led in 161 to another Parthian War , which ended victorious for Rome in 166.

Armenia, Christianized in the early 4th century, remained controversial between Rome and the neo-Persian Sassanid Empire , the successor to the Parthians, until late antiquity . In 387, the whole of Armenia was finally partitioned between Rome and Persia, with the Persians receiving most of the area, known as Persarmenia . Under Justinian I , Roman Armenia and parts of Pontus were divided into four smaller provinces. During the reign of Maurikios , the Eastern Romans profited from a civil war in the Sassanid Empire, in which the candidate Chosrau II, supported by Maurikios, was able to prevail in 591. Subsequently, Ostrom received territorial gains in Armenia, but the situation there remained tense due to controversial interventions in local rulership and church differences.

In the course of the Arab conquest in the middle of the 7th century, Eastern Stream lost Armenia. This begins the story of the medieval Armenian Kingdom, where Byzantium intervened again in the late 10th century.

literature

  • Armenia . In: The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Vol. 1 (1991), pp. 175-177.
  • Richard G. Hovannisian (Ed.): The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume I - The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 1996.

Remarks

  1. ^ Geoffrey B. Greatrex : The Background and Aftermath of the Partition of Armenia in AD 387. In: The Ancient History Bulletin 14, 2000, pp. 35-48.
  2. ↑ See Armenia. In: The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Vol. 1 (1991), p. 175 f.