Armenia: Political History

189 BCE - 12 CE - Artaxiad Dynasty (All Facts) 

• Dynasty of Armenian Kings including 

  • Artaxias I 

  • Artaxias III

18 CE - 34 CE - Artaxias III (All Facts)

• King of Armenia, he was a client of Rome

12 CE - 428 CE - Arsacid Dynasty (All Facts)

• Dynasty of Armenian Kings including

  • Tiridates III “The Great”

35 CE - Arsaces I of Armenia (All Facts) 

• Prince of Parthia and King of Armenia 

• He was expelled by the Romans after toppling him from the Armenian throne

• He was replaced by the Caucasian ruler Mithridates of Iberia (Georgia)

35 - Mithridates of Armenia (All Facts) 

• King of Armenia 

• He was installed as King of Armenia by Roman Emperor Tiberius after the Emperor had invaded Armenia the year he assumed the throne

• He was supported by Rome

52 - 88 - Tiridates of Armenia (All Facts)

• King of Armenia 

• Younger brother of Vologases of Parthia, who put him on the Armenian throne 

• Driven out of Armenia by the Roman general Corbulo, who replaced him with his successor 

58 - 61 - Tigranes VI of Armenia (All Facts) 

• King of Armenia 

• Installed by the Roman general Corbulo 

• His grandfather ruled the country in the Augustan era of the Roman Empire

161 - 163 - Pacorus / Bakur of Armenia (All Facts)

• Related to Vologases IV of Parthia, who installed him on the Armenian throne 

298 - 330 - Tiridates III “The Great” (All Facts)

• King of Armenia

• He converted to Christianity via Gregory the Illuminator

• Thus, he made his state the first to accept Christianity as the official religion 

885 - 1045 - Bagratuni Dynasty / Medieval Kingdom of Armenia (All Facts)

• Founded by Ashot Bagratuni

885 - 890 - Ashot Bagratuni (All Facts)

• First King and Founder of the Bagratuni Dynasty of the Medieval Kingdom of Armenia

  • He was initially governor of the region for nearly 25 years under the authority granted to him by the Caliph of Samarra

  • He was crowned king in the cathedral at Bagaran, the capital of Armenia prior to and during his namesake dynasty

  • He was recognized as king by Emperor Basil of the Byzantine Empire (who was an Armenian himself)

• His reign marked the end of direct domination over Armenia by the Islamic World, although, under his reign, the Armenians continued to pay tribute to them

1320 - 1341 - Leon IV (All Facts)

• King of Armenia

• He was captured at Gaban by the Egyptian Mamelukes, whom deposed and exiled him to Cairo, where they eventually released him

  • He took refuge in Europe in its Christian courts where he tried to raise an army

  • He aroused considerable sympathy for the way the Egyptian Mamelukes destroyed and ransacked Armenia, including its magnificent capital of Sis