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    namesake of his paternal ancestor, a previous ruling Armenian King Artaxias I. Artaxias II had two siblings: a younger brother called Tigranes III and an...
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    Artaxias I (from Ancient Greek: Άρταξίας) was the founder of the Artaxiad dynasty of Armenia, ruling from 189 BC to 160 BC. Artaxias was a member of a...
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  • Artaxias II (Georgian: არშაკ) or Arsuk (არსუკ) (died in 1 AD), was a member of the Nimrodid Dynasty and was a king (mepe) of Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia)...
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    His son Artaxias II was elected as successor. After a lost battle Artaxias II fled to the Parthian king. Finally Antony took Artavasdes II to Alexandria...
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    independence, with Artaxias becoming the first king of the Artaxiad dynasty of Armenia in 188 BC. Scholars believe that Artaxias and Zariadres were not...
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  • king P'arnajom murdered by his son-in-law, the Armenian Artaxiad prince Artaxias I of Iberia who usurped the crown of Iberia. Mirian was carried to Parthia...
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    Artaxias III, also known as Zeno-Artaxias, (Greek: Άρταξίας, 13 BC–34 AD) was a Pontic prince and later a Roman Client King of Armenia. Artaxias birth...
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  • founder Artaxias or Artashes Artaxias I, reigned 190–159 BC, founder of the Artaxiad dynasty Artaxias II, reigned 34–20 BC Artaxias III, reigned 18–35; no relation...
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    was already in place, a legacy of the founder of the Artaxiad Dynasty, Artaxias I, and subsequent kings. The mountains of Armenia, however, formed natural...
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    second son born to Artavasdes II of Armenia by an unnamed mother. Tigranes III had an elder brother called Artaxias II and an unnamed sister who possibly...
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    already ruled by Artaxias II of Armenia (who had been elected King that same year after Antony captured his father Artavasdes II), Artavasdes I of Media...
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  • After a decade of vassalage, Armenian royal power was restored under Artaxias. Artaxias I, strategos 200–c. 190 BC, king c. 190–c. 160 BC, possibly part of...
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    Leo II or Leon II (occasionally numbered Leo III; Armenian: Լէոն Բ, Levon II; c. 1236 – 1289) was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from...
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    finding out, he convinced King Artaxias that Argam was plotting against him and planned to take over the kingdom. Artaxias granted Artavasdes Argam's second...
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  • Thoros II (Armenian: Թորոս Բ; died February 6, 1169), also known as Thoros the Great, was the sixth lord of Armenian Cilicia from the Rubenid dynasty from...
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  • Deiotariana and III Cyrenaica, and destroys the Nubian capital of Napata. King Artaxias II returns, with the support of the Parthians, to Armenia and claims the...
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    5 to 2 BC. He may have been a son of the Artavasdes II of Armenia, thus a brother of Artaxias II and Tigranes III and an uncle of Tigranes IV. Augustus...
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  • Deiotariana and III Cyrenaica, and destroys the Nubian capital of Napata. King Artaxias II returns, with the support of the Parthians, to Armenia and claims the...
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  • Atropatene (approximate date) Artaxias II, king of Armenia (Artaxiad dynasty) Fuzhulei Ruodi, ruler of the Xiongnu Empire Mirian II (or Mirvan), king of Iberia...
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    Atropatene. Artavasdes I was an enemy of King Artavasdes II of Armenia and his son Artaxias II. He was a contemporary with the Ptolemaic Greek Queen Cleopatra...
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    Turadatis and in Latin as Tiridates. Tiridates III was the son of Khosrov II of Armenia, the latter being assassinated in 252 by a Parthian agent named...
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    army by Artaxias I. After the departure of Artaxias's most trusted general, Smbat Bagratuni, Tigranes's brother, Mazhan, requested King Artaxias that Artavasdes's...
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  • time, Cynane, Alexander's half-sister, arranged for her daughter, Eurydice II, to marry the joint king, Arridaeus (Philip III). Fearful of Cynane's influence...
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  • Ruben II[citation needed] (Armenian: Ռուբեն Բ), also Roupen II or Rupen II,[citation needed] (c.1165–1170) was the seventh lord of Armenian Cilicia (1169–1170)...
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  • Constantine II (Armenian: Կոստանդին Բ), also Kostandin II,[citation needed] (unknown[citation needed] – after February 17, 1129[citation needed]) was...
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    from 191 to 208. As king of Armenia (r. 180–191), he is known as Vologases II. Not much is known about his period of kingship of Armenia, except that he...
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    Hethum II (Armenian: Հեթում Բ; 1266 – November 17, 1307), also known by several other romanizations, was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling...
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    Rusa II was king of Urartu between around 680 BC and 639 BC. It was during his reign that the massive fortress complex, Karmir-Blur, was constructed. Rusa...
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    Gagik II (Armenian: Գագիկ Բ; c. 1025 - May 5/November 24, 1079) was the last Armenian king of the Bagratuni dynasty, ruling in Ani from 1042 to 1045. During...
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  • medieval Armenian historian Tovma Artsruni, the Artaxiad Armenian king Artaxias II (r. 75–69 BC) had "temples of Herakles and Dionysos" constructed in Vaspurakan...
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