Artavasdes I of Armenia (also called
Artavazd,
ArmenianThe Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...
: Արտավազդ Առաջին) (reigned
160 BC-Seleucid Empire:* The Seleucid king, Demetrius I, on campaign in the east of his empire, leaves his general Bacchides to govern the western portion of it....
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) was the son of
Artaxias IArtaxias I was the founder of the Artaxiad Dynasty whose members ruled the Kingdom of Armenia for nearly two centuries....
and
Queen SatenikSatenik was the name of the Alan princess who married Artashes I, the king of Armenia. Their love story, known as Artashes and Satenik, is presented by the fifth century Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi in his History of Armenia...
.
Artavasdes I of Armenia (also called
Artavazd,
ArmenianThe Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...
: Արտավազդ Առաջին) (reigned
160 BC-Seleucid Empire:* The Seleucid king, Demetrius I, on campaign in the east of his empire, leaves his general Bacchides to govern the western portion of it....
-
115 BC115 BC was a year in the second century BC.-Middle East:* Parthia makes a trade treaty with China.* The Kingdom of Sheba collapses.-Rome:* Gaius Marius is praetor in Rome, he defeats barbarian tribes in modern-day Spain.-Deaths:...
) was the son of
Artaxias IArtaxias I was the founder of the Artaxiad Dynasty whose members ruled the Kingdom of Armenia for nearly two centuries....
and
Queen SatenikSatenik was the name of the Alan princess who married Artashes I, the king of Armenia. Their love story, known as Artashes and Satenik, is presented by the fifth century Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi in his History of Armenia...
.
Artavasdes repelled several attempts by Parthians to invade Armenia but was eventually defeated by
MithridatesMithridates II the Great was king of Parthian Empire from 123 to 88 BC. His name invokes the protection of Mithra. He adopted the title Epiphanes, "god manifest" and introduced new designs on his extensive coinage....
, who annexed parts of Eastern Armenia and took his son,
Tigranes the GreatThis article is about a king of Armenia in the 1st century BCE. For other historical figures with the same name see Tigranes....
as hostage.
According to Professor
Cyril ToumanoffPrince Cyril Leo Heraclius Toumanoff was a historian and genealogist who mostly specialized in the history of medieval Georgia, Armenia and Iran....
, Artavasdes I can be identified with the Armenian king who, according to the medieval Georgian annals, interfered in Iberia at the request of local nobility and installed his son,
ArtaxiasArtaxias I, of the Artaxiad dynasty, was a king of Iberia from 90 to 78 BC. He is known exclusively from the medieval Georgian chronicles which gives his name as Arshak ....
, on the throne of Iberia, thereby inaugurating the
Iberian Artaxiad dynastyThe Artaxiads , a branch of the eponymous dynasty of Armenia, ruled Iberia from c. 90 BC to 30 AD. According to the medieval Georgian chronicles, they acquired the crown of Iberia after the Iberian nobles revolted against their king P’arnajom, of the Pharnabazid dynasty, and petitioned the king of...
.