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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
<josimo70@...> wrote:
> Is there an Iranian anthroponym *Artavazda? At a list of
Portuguese genealogy I've read a theory of Visigoth king Ardabasto
(Ardabastus) being of Armenian origin. It's quoted this name
Artavazda but it seems more like Iranian.
>
> Joao SL
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Artavazd II
King of Armenia (53-34 BC), son of Tigranes the Great. He made
alliance with the Parthian King Orontes to fight against Rome. The
united Armenian and Parthian forces routed Licinius Crassus in the
battle of Carrhae, but during the new war the Armenian King was
captured by Markus Antoninus, taken to Egypt and executed. Artavazd
was known as a Greek art adept, he composed dramas and poetry.
www.ArmenianHistory.info
Dan