Orontes (Armenia)
Orontes was probably a descendant of Orontes III. (probably the great-grandson) and Hydarnes and around 200 BC Chr. The first detectable independent rulers in Eastern Armenia . Eastern Armenia was the nucleus of a Greater Armenian Empire. According to an inscription from Armavir , Orontes temporarily ruled together with his descendant (probably grandson) and later founder of the empire Artaxias I the satrapy of Eastern Armenia , which was still under Seleucid suzerainty.
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- Strabo 11,14,15
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SURNAME | Orontes |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian satrap |
DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century BC Chr. |