Tigranakert

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

Tigranakert (Armenian: Տիգրանակերտ, transliterated "Tigranakert" and also spelled "Dikranagerd" in Western Armenian), was a city near present-day Silvan, Turkey, east of Diyarbakır. It was founded by the Armenian Emperor Tigranes the Great in the 1st century BC. Tigranakert was founded as the new capital of the Armenian Empire in order to be in a more central position within the boundaries of the expanding empire. To create this city, Tigranes forced many people out of their homes to make up the population. Armenia at this time had expanded east to the Caspian Sea, west to central Cappadocia, and south towards Judea, advancing as far as the regions surrounding what is now the Krak des Chevaliers. A Roman force under Lucius Lucullus defeated Tigranes at the Battle of Tigranocerta nearby in 69 BC, and afterwards sacked the city, sending many of the people back to their original homes to help turn the population against the tyranny of Tigranes. Tigranakert was a center for Armenian culture and was home to the Armenians up until the Armenian massacres of the 19th century and the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when the population was eradicated and replaced by Kurds.

Map of Armenia  This Armenia location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
This article about a Southeast Anatolia region of Turkey location is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../t/i/g/Tigranakert.html"
In other languages