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Title: Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gaidzakian, Ohan, 1837-1914. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, B. H. Aznive
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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overishment, massacre and at-tempts at outright extermination again and again. Ixlore thanall, it covers the time of Jesus Christ and the conversion of Ar-menia to his religion, first of all the nations of the earth, as byits history and traditions it ought to have been. During thetime between the disappearance of the line of Haig and the riseof the line of Arshag, Armenia was not by any means whollywithout Kings of its own, but it was mostly a dependency. Therise of the Arsacidse or Arshag dynasty of Parthia was acomplete overthrow of the Macedonian influence in the East.Arsaces, the Parthian King, appointed his brother ValarsacesKing over Armenia, and these two countries, governed by onereigning family, were in full sympathy with each other and infirm alliance for a time, and a worthy antagonist and opponentof the Romans, who were pushing eastward over the territoriesonce subdued by the Macedonian prince, Alexander the Great. Among the successors of Valarsaces of Arsacidse or Arshag
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DIKRAN TI. AND THE ARMENIANS. 5^ dynasty of Armenia, Tigranes the Great, or the second, immor-tahzed himseh-, not only in the history of Armenia, but also inuniversal history. His name was the glory of his people, as itwas also a terror to his enemies. He extended his dommionsfrom the Caucasian-mountains to the Mesopotamian plains, andfrom the Caspian Sea to the ^lediterranean, including Media,Atropatene, Assyria proper, Cilicia, Syria, and Phoenicia. Hebuilt a new capital city of an immense size, and called afterhis name, Tigranaghert* (built by Tigranes). After these conquests he caUed himself King of Kings(that is, emperor, king with other kings under him), which titlethe Parthian Kings had claimed theretofore. He would prob-ably have ended by mastering and restoring the unity of the oldSeleucia kingdom in its widest extent, the whole heart of west-ern Asia, had he not in an evil hour been induced by that reck-less old fighter, his father-in-law, Alithradates of Pontus, tojoin him

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