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Tigranocerta (Gr****: Τιγρανόκερτα, Tigranόkerta; Tigranakert; Armenian: Տիգրանակերտ), also
called Cholimma or
Chlomaron in antiquity, was a city and the...
- The
Battle of
Tigranocerta (Armenian: Տիգրանակերտի ճակատամարտ,
Tigranakerti tchakatamart) was
fought on 6
October 69 BC
between the
forces of the Roman...
- His
forces quickly seized the two
capitals of Armenia,
Artaxata and
Tigranocerta, and put his
younger brother Tiridates on the throne. The
onset of a...
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inhabitants of
conquered cities were
forcibly relocated to his new capital,
Tigranocerta. An
admirer of the Gr**** culture,
Tigranes invited many Gr**** rhetoricians...
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famously during the
Siege of
Cyzicus in 73–72 BC, and at the
Battle of
Tigranocerta in
Armenian Arzanene in 69 BC. His
command style received unusually favourable...
- attempt.
Lucullus began a
siege of the new
Armenian imperial capital of
Tigranocerta in the
Arzenene district. Tigranes, with his main host,
returned from...
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times between Rome and Persia.
Corduene was
situated to the east of
Tigranocerta, that is, to the east and
south of present-day Diyarbakır in south-eastern...
- Phoenicia, and
parts of
Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). He
built a new
capital Tigranocerta and po****ted it with
people deported from Cappadocia. His
initial invasions...
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placed it
under effective Armenian control. However,
after the
Battle of
Tigranocerta,
Armenia forever lost
their holdings in
Syria and
Beirut was conquered...
- Plutarch—when the
Roman general Lucullus seized the
Armenian capital,
Tigranocerta, he
found a
troupe of Gr****
actors who had
arrived to
perform plays for...
