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Nemrud Dağı is a major site of interest here, noted for its sanctuary of statues built by Antiochus Theos, king of Commagene.
Aka II is one of the daughters born to the King of Commagene, Mithridates III who reigned from 20 BC until 12 BC from his cousin-wife Queen Iotapa, thus was a sister of Antiochus III of Commagene.
Laodice VII Thea, married to king Mithridates I Callinicus of Commagene as part of a settlement by Mithridates' father Sames II Theosebes Dikaios to ensure peace between the Kingdom of Commagene and the Seleucid Empire.
Cyrrhus was the capital of the extensive district of Cyrrhestica, between the plain of Antioch and Commagene.
Gaius Julius Antiochus IV Epiphanes (aka Antiochus IV Epiphanes or Antiochus IV of Commagene), the last king of Commagene who reigned between 38-72.
Paetus invaded the Kingdom of Commagene, as head of the Legio VI Ferrata.
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Epiphanes was the first-born son and child to King Antiochus IV of Commagene and Queen Iotapa of Commagene.
Laodice bore Mithridates a son, Antiochus I Theos of Commagene (c. 86 BC–38 BC), a prince and future king of Commagene.
Moschians are mentioned in the cuneiform tablets of Tiglath-Pileser I of Assyria dating to 1115–1100 B.C. He led a campaign against them in the North of Commagene and mountains of Georgia and Armenia.
In 710 BC, the seven Greek kings of Ia (Cyprus) had accepted Assyrian sovereignty; in 709, Midas, king of Phrygia, beset by the nomadic Cimmerians, submitted to Assyrian rule and in 708 BC, Kummuhu (Commagene) became an Assyrian province.
The Commagene King Antiochus I Theos Epiphanes (c. 86 BC-38 BC, ruled 70 BC-38 BC) seems to have been connected to the Brotherhood, and may even have been (as Adrian Gilbert suggests) its leader.
He participated in excavations in Alzey, under the direction of Wilhelm Unverzagt, in the Kerameikos in Athens ( Dieter Oly and Gottfried Gruben ), in Persia ( Heinz Luschey ), Bithynia and in Commagene (Friedrich Karl Dörner).