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Chapters: 140 Bc Births, 140 Bc Deaths, Tigranes the Great, Su Wu, Huo Qubing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Lucius Licinius Crassus, Zenodorus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This article is about a king of Armenia in the 1st century BCE For other historical figures with the same name (including other kings of Armenia) see Tigranes. Tigranes the Great (Armenian: ; EA: Tigran Mets, WA: Dikran Medz, Greek: ) (140 55 BCE; also called Tigranes II and sometimes Tigranes I) 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. Under his reign, the Armenian kingdom expanded beyond its traditional boundaries, temporarily becoming an empire, and involved itself in many battles against opponents such as the Parthian and Seleucid empires, and the Roman Republic. Tigranes had been a hostage until the age of 40 at the court of King Mithradates II of Parthia who defeated the Armenians in 105 BCE. Other sources give the date as much earlier, at around 112-111 BCE. After the death of King Tigranes I in 95 BCE, Tigranes bought his freedom, according to Strabo, by handing over "seventy valleys" in Atropatene to the Parthians. When he came to power, the foundation upon which Tigranes was to build his Empire was already in place, thanks to the founder of the Artaxiad Dynasty, Artaxias I, and subsequent kings. The mountains of Armenia, however, formed natural borders between the different regions of the country and as a result, the feudalistic nakharars had significant influence over the regions or provinces in which they were based. This did not suit Tigranes, who wanted to create a centralist empire. He thus proceeded by consolidating his power within Armenia b...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=182966 ... Read more