He is next heard of in the winter of 114/115, during Trajan’s Parthian war, commanding Legio VI Ferrata, which according to a fragment of the Parthica of Arrian he marched in deep snow (having secured snowshoes from native guides) across the Armenian Taurus to get to Tigranakert.
From 54 AD to 68 AD the Sixth Legion Ferrata served under Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo at Artaxata and Tigranocerta against the Parthians.
Zartarian was born in 1874 in the city of Tigranakert, but moved to Harput (or Kharpert) (Armenian: Խարբերդ) when he was two.
It was one of four cities in historic Armenia named Tigranakert.
It became an important center during the reign of the Armenian king, Tigranes II, who founded the city of Tigranakert in the 1st century BC.
Zabelle C. Boyajian was born in Diarbekir (one of the ancient Armenian capitals, Tigranakert) into the family of the British Vice-Consul in Diarbekir and Harput Baron Thomas Boyajian and Catherine Rogers, a descendent of the English poet Samuel Rogers.
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