Mithridates I of Media Atropatene
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Mithridates I was a ruler of the Achaemenid Atropatene
kingdom of Armenia
. He ruled from 67 BCE to 66 BCE. He was a son-in-law of Tigranes the Great
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Atropatene
Atropatene was an ancient kingdom established and ruled under local ethnic Iranian dynasts first with "Darius" of Persia and later "Alexander" of Macedonia, starting in the 4th century BC and includes the territory of modern-day Iranian Azarbaijan and Iranian Kurdistan. Its capital was Gazaca...
kingdom of Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
. He ruled from 67 BCE to 66 BCE. He was a son-in-law of Tigranes the Great
Tigranes the Great
Tigranes the Great was emperor of Armenia under whom the country became, for a short time, the strongest state east of the Roman Republic. He was a member of the Artaxiad Royal House...
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