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 * Artaxias I

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chief foreign influences in Armenia came from the Seleucid Empire but were Aramaic rather than Hellenistic in character. per Xorenaci, Artaxias set up boundary markers at various points in Armenia, and some of these have survived. They are always in Aramaic, obviously the language that most literate people have been thought to understand. A typical one, found in Zangezur, and leaving no doubt as to the Orontid origin of the Artaxiads "Artases the king, an Oroontid the good, son of Zareh"

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Zhores Khachatryan




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http://serials.flib.sci.am/openreader/Hay%20joxovrdi%20patmutyun_%20h.1/book/index.html#page/533/mode/1up

http://serials.flib.sci.am/Founders/H.%20Manandyan,%20QnTes-%20h.A/book/index.html#page/116/mode/2up

https://www.livius.org/articles/person/artaxias-of-armenia/

http://hpj.asj-oa.am/2927/ Արտաշես I-ի հաստատած սահմանաքարերի իրավական նշանակությունը

http://hpj.asj-oa.am/2972/ Արտաշես I-ի ևս մեկ նորագյուտ արամեական արձանագրություն

http://hpj.asj-oa.am/2166/ Արտաշես I-ի հողային քաղաքականության հարցի շուրջը

http://lraber.asj-oa.am/6781/ Արտաշես Ա արքայի Արտամատ քաղաքը՝ ըստ Թովմա Արծրունու «Արծրունյաց տան պատմության»

http://litphilo.asj-oa.am/13/ Գրիգոր Մագիստրոսի մոտ Արտաշես Ա-ի վերաբերյալ պահպանված վիպական հատվածի մասին

http://lraber.asj-oa.am/3303/ Արտաշես Ա-ի կողմից Կասպիանե-Փայտակարան մարզի «նվաճման» հարցի շուրջ (ըստ Մովսես Խորենացու տվյալների)

http://hpj.asj-oa.am/5367/ Մովսես Խորենացու Պատմության «Տենչայ Սաթենիկ տիկին» հատվածը

Yervanduni discontinuity

Classical sources
Strabo, Geographica

XI.14.5

Antiochus III the Great

According to a report, Armenia, though a small country in earlier times, was enlarged by Artaxias and Zariadris, who formerly were generals of Antiochus the Great,13 but later, after his defeat, reigned as kings (the former as king of Sophenê, Acisenê, Odomantis, and certain other countries, and the latter as king of the country round Artaxata), and jointly enlarged their kingdoms by cutting off for themselves parts of the surrounding nations, — I mean by cutting off Caspianê and Phaunitis and Basoropeda from the country of the Medes; and the country along the side of Mt Paryadres and Chorzenê and Gogarenê, which last is on the far side of the Cyrus River, from that of the Iberians; and Carenitis and Xerxenê, which border on Lesser Armenia or else parts of it, from that of the Chalybians and the Mosynoeci; and Acilisenê and the country round the Antitaurus from that of the Cataonians; and Taronitis from that of the Syrians; and therefore they all speak the same language, as we are told.

XI.14.6

The cities of Armenia are Artaxata, also called Artaxiasata, which was founded by Hannibal14 for Artaxias the king

Plutarch, The Life of Lucullus, 31.3-4

3 It is said that Hannibal the Carthaginian, after Antiochus had been conquered by the Romans, left him and went to Artaxas the Armenian, to whom he gave many excellent suggestions and instructions. For instance, observing that a section of the country which had the greatest natural advantages and attractions was lying idle and neglected, he drew up a plan for a city there, and then brought Artaxas to the place and showed him its possibilities, and urged him to undertake the building.

4 The king was delighted, and begged Hannibal to superintend the work himself, whereupon a very great and beautiful city arose there, which was named after the king, and proclaimed the capital of Armenia.

Legacy
During his speech, on May 28, 2018 at the Sardarapat Memorial, dedicated to the centenary of the First Republic of Armenia and the Battle of Sardarabad (1918) Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan named Artaxias, Mesrop Mashtots, and Vardan Mamikonian, whose blood flows through the veins of Armenians. It was noted by some commentators as symbolically significant as Artaxias founded unified and independent Armenia.

https://www.primeminister.am/en/statements-and-messages/item/2020/10/14/Nikol-Pashinyan-message-to-the-nation/ The souls, spirit and strength of our other great martyrs and heroes, King Artashes, Tigran the Great, Ashot Yerkat, Aram Manukyan, Hovhannes Baghramyan, Monte Melkonyan, Vazgen Sargsyan, are with us today. Today, the Armenians are united more than ever. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians are providing financial, economic, media-borne and political support to Armenia and Artsakh.

coin, possibly Artaxias

Artistic depictions

 * add border markers (all 3)