Vologases IV of Parthia

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Vologases IV of Parthia

Vologases IV of Parthia ruled the Parthian Empire

Parthia

Parthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasty, after which the Arsacid Empire is then also known as the 'Parthian Empire'....
from 147 to 191. The son of Mithridates IV of Parthia

Mithridates IV of Parthia

Mithridates IV of Parthia ruled the western Parthia from 129 to 140. He was the brother of Osroes I of Parthia . During the invasion of Mesopotamia by the Roman emperor Trajan in 116 he and his son Sanatruces II of Parthia took up the diadem but were defeated....
(129–140), he united the two halves of the empire which had been split between his father and Vologases III of Parthia

Vologases III of Parthia

Vologases III of Parthia claimed the throne of the Parthia about 105, in the last days of Pacorus II of Parthia . He reigned over the eastern portion of the kingdom from 105 to 147....
(105–147). He also reconquered the kingdom of Characene

Characene

Characene, also known as Mesene, was a kingdom within the Parthian Empire at the head of the Persian Gulf. Its capital was Charax , "The Fort of Hyspaosines"....
which seems to have been independent since the Roman invasion of the Parthian empire under Trajan

Trajan

Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, commonly known as Trajan , was a Roman Emperors who reigned from 98 until his death in 117. Born Marcus Ulpius Traianus into a nonpatrician family in the Hispania Baetica province , Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian, serving as a general in the Roman army along the Limes G...
(98–117).

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Vologases IV of Parthia ruled the Parthian Empire

Parthia

Mithridates IV of Parthia

Vologases III of Parthia

Characene

Trajan

Zoroaster

Zoroaster or Zarathushtra , also referred to as Zartosht , was an ancient Iranian peoples prophet and religious poet. The hymns attributed to him, the Gathas, are at the liturgical core of Zoroastrianism....
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Conflicts with Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
began in about 155 with a dispute, as usual, over the kingdom of Armenia

Kingdom of Armenia

The Kingdom of Armenia was an independent kingdom from 190 BC to AD 387 and a client state of the Roman and Persian empires until 428, stretching from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea seas....
. In 162–166 the Parthians attacked the Roman Empire

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
under Roman emperor

Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
. In this war the city of Seleucia on the Tigris

Seleucia on the Tigris

Seleucia was one of the great cities of the world during Hellenistic and Roman Empire times. It stood in Mesopotamia, on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the smaller town of Opis ....
was destroyed and the palace at the capital Ctesiphon

Ctesiphon

Ctesiphon was one of the great cities of the Persian Empire, located on the east bank of the Tigris.Ctesiphon was an imperial capital of the Arsacids and of their successors, the Sassanids....
was burned to the ground by Avidius Cassius

Avidius Cassius

Gaius Avidius Cassius was a Roman usurper who briefly ruled Aegyptus Province and Syria in 175.A native of Cyrrhus, Syria, he was the son of Gaius Avidius Heliodorus, a noted orator who had become prefect of Egypt....
in 165. The Roman legions advanced as far as Media

Medes

The Medes were an Ancient Iranian peoples who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. This area was known in Greek as Media or Medea ....
. Vologases IV made peace but was forced to cede western Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is the area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern Iraq, as well as some parts of northeastern Syria, some parts of southeastern Turkey, and some parts of the Khuzestan Province of southwestern Iran....
to the Romans.

The end of his reign was marred by the revolt of Osroes II of Parthia

Osroes II of Parthia

Osroes II of Parthia was a claimant of the throne of the Parthia c. 190. He is unknown to history except for the coins he issued. The date of his reign suggests that he rebelled against Vologases IV of Parthia but was unable to maintain himself against Vologases V of Parthia....
(190), who appears to have set himself up in Media

Medes

The Medes were an Ancient Iranian peoples who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. This area was known in Greek as Media or Medea ....
as a rival King in hope of succeeding Vologases IV. In the event, Vologases V

Vologases V of Parthia

Vologases V of Parthia ruled the Parthia from 191 to 208. He was the son of Vologases I of Armenia, a member of the Parthian Arsacid dynasty Arshakuni Dynasty....
(191–208) of the Arsacid dynasty's Armenian cadet branch won the succession, and appears to have quickly put down Osroes II.