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ARTAXATA (Ancient city) ARMENIA
Artaxata (Artaxata, Artaxiasata, Artaxiasota: Artaxata sing. and plur.,
Plin. vi. 10; Juv. ii. 170; Tac. Annal. ii. 56, vi. 32, xiii. 41, xiv. 23: Eth.
Artaxatenos), the ancient capital of Armenia, situated on a sort of peninsula
formed by the curve of the river Araxes. (Strab. xi. p. 529.) Hannibal, who took
refuge at the court of Artaxias when Antiochus was no longer able to protect him,
superintended the building of this city, which was so called in honour of Artaxias.
(Strab. p. 528; Plut. Lucull. 31.) Corbulo, A.D. 58, destroyed the town (Diet.
of Biog. s. v.), which was rebuilt by Tiridates, who gave it the name of Neronia
in honour of the Emperor Nero, who had surrendered the kingdom of Armenia to him.
(Dio. Cass. lxiii. 7.) The subsequent history, as given by the native historians,
will be found in St. Martin (Mem. sur l'Armenie, vol. i. p. 118). Formerly a mass
of ruins called Takt Tiridate (Throne of Tiridates), near the junction of the
Aras and the Zengue, were supposed to represent the ancient Artaxata. Col. Monteith
(London Geog. Journal, vol. iii. p. 47) fixes the site at a remarkable bend in
the river, somewhat lower down than this, at the bottom of which were the ruins
of a bridge of Greek or Roman architecture.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
the capital of Armenia Major, on the Araxes, now Ardaschad
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