Artabazanes
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Artabazanes of Media Atropatene (fl. 221 BCE) was a ruler of the Persian Atropatene
kingdom of Armenia
. He ruled 221 BCE or 220 BCE, and was contemporary of Antiochus III the Great
.
Artabazanes was presumably of Iranian lineage and was said to be the son of one of Darius II
’s four sons by the daughter of Gobryas prior to his accession.
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 221 BCE or 220 BCE, and was contemporary of Antiochus III the Great
Antiochus III the Great
Antiochus III the Great Seleucid Greek king who became the 6th ruler of the Seleucid Empire as a youth of about eighteen in 223 BC. Antiochus was an ambitious ruler who ruled over Greater Syria and western Asia towards the end of the 3rd century BC...
.
Artabazanes was presumably of Iranian lineage and was said to be the son of one of Darius II
Darius II
Darius II , was king of the Persian Empire from 423 BC to 405 BC.Artaxerxes I, who died on December 25, 424 BC, was followed by his son Xerxes II. After a month and a half Xerxes II was murdered by his brother Secydianus or Sogdianus...
’s four sons by the daughter of Gobryas prior to his accession.