Sanatruk

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Sanatruk (Armenian: Սանատրուկ, Latinized as Sanatruces) was a member of the Arshakuni Dynasty who may have succeeded Tiridates I of Armenia as King of Armenia at the end of the first century. Little or no information is available from either literary or numismatic sources regarding the successor of Tiridates.[1] Through the collation of various Classical and Armenian sources, Sanatruk is assumed to have reigned at the turn of the 1st and 2nd centuries.[1] Certain scholars proposed that Sanatruk succeeded Tiridates between 75 and 110 but this hypothesis for which there is no explicit evidence has been rejected by others.[2] His merits are praised by Arrian in his Parthica where he is equated with the most illustrious Greeks and Romans. Hagiographic tradition blames him for the martyrdom of the Apostle St. Thaddeus in Armenia. In 110 the throne of Armenia was held by Axidares, the son of the Parthian monarch of Atropatene, Pacorus II who was deposed in 113 by Trajan. A number of sources have named Sanatruk as one of the leaders of the revolt against Trajan's occupation by 117.[2]

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  1. ^ a b ii. The Pre-Islamic Period. ARMENIA AND IRAN. Iranica. Retrieved on 2008-01-12.
  2. ^ a b Hovannisian, Richard G. (1997). The Armenian people from ancient to modern times: from antiquity to the fourteenth century. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 69-70. ISBN 0-312-10168-6. 
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