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unusual facts about Atropatene


Atropatene

Artabazanes (flourished 3rd century BC) ruled from 221 BC or 220 BC, a contemporary of the Seleucid Greek King Antiochus III the Great.


Artavasdes I

Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene, King of Media Atropatene and of Sophene in the latter half of the 1st century BC

Balasagan

Shapur I's inscription at Naqsh-e-Rostam describes the satrapy as "extending to the Caucasus mountains and the Gate of Albania (also known as Gate of the Alans)", but for the most part it was located south of the lower course of the rivers Kura and the Aras (Araxes), bordered on the south by Atropatene, and had the Caspian Sea on its east.


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