Sophene (Armenian: Ծոփք, romanized: Tsopkʻ or Չորրորդ Հայք, lit. 'fourth Armenia'; Ancient Greek: Σωφηνή, romanized: Sōphēnē) was a province of the ancient...

BC), the Armenian throne was divided in two—Greater Armenia (state) and Sophene—both of which passed to members of the Artaxiad dynasty in 189 BC. During...

The Kingdom of Sophene (Armenian: Ծոփք, romanized: Tsop’k’, Ancient Greek: Σωφηνή, romanized: Sōphēnḗ), was a Hellenistic-era political entity situated...

Sames I (also spelled Samos I), was the Orontid king of Sophene and Commagene, ruling around 260 BC. The name of "Samos" is possibly derived from the...

was a city in Armenian Sophene near the Tigris, identified with the modern town of Eğil. It was the first capital of Sophene until Arsames I founded...

independent kingdom. Later, a branch of the Orontids ruled as kings of Sophene and Commagene. They are the first of the three royal dynasties that successively...

Tsopk Shahunyats was a region in the Sophene region of ancient Greater Armenia c. 400–800, in the Armenia Sophene or Sophanene. List of regions of old...

ruler of Sophene in the early 2nd century BC. According to Strabo, he was a general of the Seleucid ruler Antiochus III who was made ruler of Sophene, although...

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...

Mithrobouzanes was the Orontid king of Sophene in the second half of the 2nd-century BC. His name (Μιθροβουζάνης) is the Greek transliteration of the...

(more commonly identified with Eğil), the first capital of the Kingdom of Sophene. The early Muslim geographers knew Harput as Ḥiṣn Ziyād ("the fortress...

corresponding modern names: Corduene or Gordyene (Siirt, Bitlis and Şırnak) Sophene (Diyarbakır) Zabdicene or Bezabde (Gozarto d'Qardu or Jazirat Ibn or Cizre)...

King of Armenia. In his reign he struggled for control of the Kingdom of Sophene with king Antiochus II Theos until being defeated in 272 BC and was forced...

This is a list of the catholicoi of all Armenians (Armenian: Ամենայն Հայոց Կաթողիկոս), head bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church (Armenian: Հայ Առաքելական...

Tigranes the Younger, son of Tigranes the Great, briefly ruled the Kingdom of Sophene, 65 BC Tigranes III ruled 20–8 BC Tigranes IV ruled 8–5 BC and 2 BC – 1...

may have also been the site of Carcathiocerta, capital of the Kingdom of Sophene, and the settlement Ingalawa mentioned in Hittite records. Angeghtun bordered...

486–465 BC Xerxes II of Persia, briefly reigned 424 BC Xerxes of Sophene, ruler of Sophene and Commagene, 228–201 BC Xerxes (Sasanian prince), 6th-century...

Pliny the Elder describes as including, from west to east, Commagene, Sophene, and Adiabene. By Pliny's time, however, this larger Syria had been divided...

the country was divided into two kingdoms, Greater Armenia and Armenia Sophene, including Commagene or Armenia Minor. The kingdoms became so independent...

cantons to fall under Byzantine rule and was known as Anzitene (Greek: Ἀνζιτηνή). Balahovit Degik Gavrek Hashtyank Khordzyan Lesser Sophene Paghnatun...

Commagene formed part of a larger state that also included the Kingdom of Sophene. This situation lasted until c. 163 BC, when the local satrap, Ptolemaeus...

Zariadres who became ruler of Sophene according to Strabo. Michał Marciak argues that identifying Zariadres of Sophene with the Zareh of the inscriptions...

consecrator and as co-consecrators Bishop Bolesław Kominek (titular bishop of Sophene), auxiliary of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wrocław, and Franciszek Jop...

reigned 486–465 BC Xerxes II of Persia, reigned 424 BC Xerxes of Sophene, ruler of Sophene and Commagene, 228–201 BC Xerxes (Sasanian prince), 6th-century...

ruled Sophene as independent kings until Tigranes annexed Sophene to Greater Armenia. The Artsrunis are supposed to have ruled continued to rule Sophene, giving...

the five satrapies between the Tigris and Armenia: Ingilene, Sophanene (Sophene), Arzanene (Aghdznik), Corduene, and Zabdicene (near modern Hakkâri, Turkey)...

weakened by dynastic feuds Tigranes extended his power by the annexation of Sophene and the Submission of Gordyene under its prince. Districts of Cordyene...

overthrow by the Romans in 12 AD. Their realm included Greater Armenia, Sophene and, intermittently, parts of Mesopotamia. Their main enemies were the...

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79–101. doi:10.1017/irq.2016.8. S2CID 56050063. Marciak, Michał (2017). Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene: Three Regna Minora of Northern Mesopotamia Between...