Tigranes the Great

Tigranes II, mair commonly kent as Tigranes the Great (Armenie: Տիգրան Մեծ, Tigran Mets;^[2] Ancient Greek: Τιγράνης ὁ Μέγας Tigránes ho Mégas; Laitin: Tigranes Magnus)^[3] (140 – 55 BC) wis King o Armenie unner whom the kintra acame, for a short time, the strangest state east o the Roman Republic.^[4] He wis a member o the Artaxiad Ryal Hoose. Unner his reign, the Armenie kinrick expanded yont its tradeetional boondaries, allaein Tigranes tae claim the teetle Great Keeng, an involvin Armenie in mony battles against opponents such as the Parthian an Seleucid empires, an the Roman Republic.

Tigranes the Great
Keeng o Armenie
A tetradrachm o Tigranes II. The starn seembol atween the twa eagles on his croun mey depict Halley's Comet.[1]
Ring	95–55 BC
Predecessor	Tigranes I
Successor	Artavasdes II
Born	140 BC
Dee'd	55 BC
Buirial	Tigranocerta
Consort	Cleopatra o Pontus
Issue	Wi Cleopatra, three sons: Zariadres, Artavasdes II, Tigranes & twa dauchters: ane mairied Pacorus I o Parthie an the ither mairied Mithridates I o Media Atropatene
Dynasty	Artaxiad
Faither	Artavasdes I or Tigranes I
Releegion	Armenie paganism

References

1. Gurzadyan, V. G.; Vardanyan, R. (August 2004). "Halley's comet of 87 BC on the coins of Armenian king Tigranes?". Astronomy & Geophysics. 45 (4). doi:10.1046/j.1468-4004.2003.45406.x.
2. Wastren Armenie pronunciation: Dikran Medz
3. Ubbo Emmius (1620). Appendix Genealogica: illustrando operi chronologico adjecta. Excudebat Ioannes Sassivs. p. D5.
4. Manaseryan, Ruben (2007). Տիգրան Մեծ՝ Հայկական Պայքարը Հռոմի և Պարթևաստանի Դեմ, մ.թ.ա. 94–64 թթ. [Tigran the Great: The Armenian Struggle Against Rome and Parthia, 94–64 B.C.] (in Armenian). Yerevan: Lusakan Publishing. p. needed.