TIRIDATES, King of Armenia

fl. c.a.d. 63, king of Armenia. He was put on the throne by his brother Vologeses I, king of Parthia, and he was driven from it when the Romans under Corbulo won (a.d. 59) the Parthian campaign. Later he went to Rome and had his crown restored (a.d. 66) by Nero.

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World and Its Peoples: Middle East, Western Asia and Northern Africa - Vol. 6
Includes: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Turkey
Book by Marshall Cavendish; Marshall Cavendish, 2006
Subjects: Armenia (Republic)--Geography, Azerbaijan--Geography, Georgia--Geography, Turkey--Geography
Mursitls 1.llll1llc king 739 Mursllis 1I.IIittitc king 741i Mutalibov. Ayaz 7Rn .?luwltlis. I littite king 740 N Nagornu-Kl1rabakh scu Kardhdkh...iiiikir I?I?amcrlanel 753-75-l Tiridates 111. king oj Armcnid 75U. 7h5 Trdhzon...
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The Tragedy of Armenia: A Brief Study and Interpretation
Book by Bertha S. Papazian; Pilgrim Press, 1918
Subjects: Armenia--History, Armenian Question
...illustration along still other moral lines. It is worthy of note that the Armenian church which St. Gregory founded and King Tiridates proclaimed some years before the proclamation of Constantine, was to remain an independent church, in spite of persistent...
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The Armenians: Past and Present in the Making of National Identity
Book by Edmund Herzig, Marina Kurkchiyan; RoutledgeCurzon, 2005
Subjects: Armenia--History, Armenians--History, National Characteristics, Armenian
...suffers no bridges: Armenia is, irrevocably, part...Artaxata where the Armenian king was celebrating the marriage...coming of Christianity to Armenia Within a hundred years...first century AD, Tiridates (Trdat), brother of...firmly established in Armenia, despite constant Roman...
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Rewriting Caucasian History: The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles
Book by Robert W. Thomson; Clarendon Press, 1996
Subjects: Georgia (Republic)--History--To 1801, Georgia (Republic)--Kings And Rulers--Biography
...world of Eastern Christianity. Armenia and Georgia were both drawn into...accounts of the conversion of King Trdat Tiridates in Armenia by St Gregory the Illuminator...gradual missionary effort. In Armenia the significant impact of Syrian...
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The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene: Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier
Book by Duane W. Roller; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Cleopatra--Queen, Consort Of Juba Ii, King Of Mauretania--B. 40 B.C, Juba--Ii--King Of Mauretania--Ca. 50 B.C.-Ca. 24 A.D, Juba--Ii--King Of Mauretania--Ca. 50 B.C.-Ca. 24 A.D--Knowledge And Learning, Mauretania (Kingdom)--Civilization, Mauretania (Kingdom)--Kings And Rulers--Biography
...city in Italy 14 n tigers 200 Tigranes V, king of Armenia 249 n Tigranes VI, king of Armenia 249 n, 274 Timagenes of Alexandria, Greek...province 103 Tipasa, city in Mauretania 128 Tiridates, Parthian pretender 218 Tomb of the Christian...
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journal articles on: Tiridates King of Armenia  - 5 results

 
 
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Catholic Women's Ordination: The Ecumenical Implications of Women Deacons in the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Orthodox Church of Greece, and the Union of Utrecht Old Catholic Churches *
Journal article by Phyllis Zagano; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 43, 2008
Subjects: Armenian Apostolic Church--Social aspects, Catholic churches--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Churches, Catholic--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Churches, Orthodox Eastern--Social aspects, Monastic and religious life of women--Analysis, Ordination of women--Analysis, Orthodox Eastern Church--Social aspects, Women and religion--Analysis
...catholicos in Echmiadzin, Armenia, the original seat of the...Cilicia. The See of Echmiadzin (Armenia) is led by His Holiness Karekin...of the Emperor Diocletian to Armenia, where she refused King Tiridates, who had her and her companions...
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Nero Reconsidered
Journal article by Edward Champlin; New England Review, Vol. 19, 1998
Subjects: Nero--Emperor Of Rome--37-68
...That was the day on which the emperor crowned Tiridates Ying of Armenia at fabulous expense. The day received its name...Golden Day, the emperor had received the homage of King Tiridates in the Forum, and he crowned him there before a...
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'A Fanatical Yet Rational Devotion' Augustus and the Legions
Journal article by Ronald T. Ridley; Antichthon, Vol. 39, 2005
Subjects: Armed forces
...Tiridates, fled to him, bringing one of king Phraates sons (Dio 51.18). Augustus...with the death of the pro-Roman king of Armenia, Tigranes, in 6 BC. This resulted...Caesar. Rome now lost control of Armenia. Peace and alliance were, however...
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Sons of Israel in Caesar's Service: Jewish Soldiers in the Roman Military
Journal article by Andrew J. Schoenfeld; Shofar, Vol. 24, 2006
Subjects: Jews, Military personnel, Roman civilization
...Princess Berenice, the daughter of King Agrippa I. Meanwhile, Tiberius...initiating negotiations with the Armenian King, Tiridates.18 His success in the Armenian...that he had enjoyed in Egypt and Armenia. The Jewish insurgency was put...
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Testing the Legend: Horace, Silius Italicus and the Case of Marcus Atilius Regulus
Journal article by Gareth Williams; Antichthon, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects: Diplomatic & consular services
...Eventually defeated, Tiridates sought Roman refuge...son be returned and Tiridates handed over, Augustus...an asset as useful as Tiridates; for by protecting...through Macedonia to Armenia, and there to install Tigranes as client-king. Threatened by this...


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magazine articles on: Tiridates King of Armenia  - 5 results

 
 
1.
1700th Birthday: Armenian Church Celebrates
Magazine article; Anglican Journal, Vol. 127, December 2001
Subjects: Armenia, Armenian Apostolic Church, History
...However, festivities in Armenia culminated in September in...According to tradition, Armenia was evangelized by Christs...St. Gregory who baptized King Tiridates III, who in turn proclaimed Armenia a Christian state in AD 301...
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The Armenian Church Celebrates Its 1,700-year Anniversary
Magazine article by Fred Strickert; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XX, July 31, 2001
Subjects: Armenia, History, International, Religion
...seeking refuge in Armenia. Among them was...pagan beliefs, Tiridates then tortured and...employee of the king who had been sentenced...for refusing the kings demand that he sacrifice...prayers of Gregory, King Tiridates was healed and then...state religion of Armenia. Gregory then was...
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Miracles and Mission Revisited
Magazine article by Gary B. McGee; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 25, October 2001
Subjects: Christianity, History, Miracles, Missionaries
...40), to the third-century King Tiridates of Armenia, to the fourth-century Emperor...to the fifth-century Clovis, king of the Franks, all the way to...to a test on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:17-46), he proposed to...
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Spreading the Gospel in the Middle Ages: Bernard Hamilton Unravels the Complex Tale of the Spread of the Christian Faith and Its Competing Hierarchies
Magazine article by Bernard Hamilton; History Today, Vol. 53, January 2003
Subjects: Christianity--History, Christianity--International aspects, Church history--International aspects, Civilization, Christian--History, Civilization, Christian--International aspects
...to the Catholic kings of Spain in 1492...vicegerent of Christ the King in temporal affairs...fourth century. Armenia, where King Tiridates III was converted...the Valley of the Kings. The Christological...relates how the kings of Ethiopia are...danced before it as King David had once danced...
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Mithraic Mysteries and the Cult of Empire: The Cult of the Mithras, a Secret, Oath-Bound Society of Elites, Was at One Time the Power Behind the Throne of the Mighty, and Morally Bankrupt, Roman Empire
Magazine article by Charles Scaliger; The New American, Vol. 26, June 21, 2010
Subjects: Cults--History, Mithraism--History, Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD--Religious aspects
...the Middle East, from Armenia to the empire of Kushan...was to bring the Armenian king Tiridates to Rome for his coronation. As Tiridates prostrated himself before...king of the same name, Tiridates the Great, converted to...


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encyclopedia articles on: Tiridates King of Armenia  - 3 results

 
 
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Tiridates , King of Armenia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TIRIDATES , king of Armenia fl. c.a.d. 63, king of Armenia. He was put on the throne by his brother Vologeses I, king of Parthia, and he was driven from it when the Romans under Corbulo won (a.d. 59) the Parthian campaign. Later...
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Armenia , Country, Asia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...imperialistic ambitions of King Tigranes led to war with Rome; defeated Armenia became tributary to the...distinguished between Greater Armenia and Lesser Armenia, respectively east and west of the Euphrates. Tiridates , a Parthian prince...
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Tabriz
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and to the west (now Turkey). Tabriz, then known as Tauris, was (3d cent. a.d.) the capital of Armenia under King Tiridates III. It was sacked by the Oghuz Turks c.1029, but by 1054, when it was captured by the Seljuk Turks...


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