Artavasdes I (Armenia)

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Artavasdes I was king of Armenia from about 159 BC. BC to 115 BC BC and came from the Artaxid dynasty . He succeeded his father Artaxias I. by.

Artavasde's name is the Latin translation of an old Iranian name Ṛtavazdā, which is identical to the Avestic Ašavazdah and probably means "powerful / persevering through the truth". Around 120 BC The Parthian king Mithridates II defeated Artavasdes I and forced him to recognize Parthian suzerainty. Artavasdes was forced to give Tigranes , who was either his son or nephew, as a hostage to the Parthians .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Schmitt: "Artavasdes" . In: Encyclopaedia Iranica . tape 2 , no. 6 , 1986, pp. 653 .
  2. ↑ a b Olbrycht, Marek Jan: Mithridates VI Eupator and Iran . In: Højte, Jakob Munk. (Ed.): Mithridates VI and the Pontic Kingdom. Black Sea Studies . tape 9 . Aarhus University Press, Santa Barbara 2009, ISBN 978-87-7934-655-0 , pp. 163-190 .
  3. ↑ Garsoian, Nina: "Tigran II." In: Encyclopaedia Iranica . 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Artavasdes I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Armenia
DATE OF BIRTH around 159 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 115 BC Chr.