Sophene
Sign in to saveSophene ( or , ; ) was a province of the ancient kingdom of Armenia, located in the south-west of the kingdom, and of the Roman Empire. The region lies in what is now southeastern Turkey.
Key facts
- Former Subdivision.native_name
- Ծոփք
- Former Subdivision.conventional_long_name
- Sophene
- Former Subdivision.common_name
- Fourth Armenia
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- Arshakuni_Armenia_150-en.svg
- Former Subdivision.image_map_caption
- Sophene in the south-west of the Kingdom of Armenia (spelled "Dzopk" in the Western Armenian dialect).
- Former Subdivision.subdivision
- Province
- Former Subdivision.nation
- the ancient kingdom of Armenia
- Former Subdivision.year_start
- 189 BC
- Former Subdivision.year_end
- 530 AD
- Former Subdivision.capital
- Carcathiocerta (Eğil), later Arshamashat (Elazığ)
- Former Subdivision.event_start
- Artaxias I declaring himself independent
- Former Subdivision.event_end
- Included in the province of Armenia
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Sophene ( or , ; ) was a province of the ancient kingdom of Armenia, located in the south-west of the kingdom, and of the Roman Empire. The region lies in what is now southeastern Turkey.
==History== The region that was to become Sophene was part of the kingdom of Ararat (Urartu) in the 8th and 7th centuries BC. After unifying the region with his kingdom in the early 8th century BC, king Argishtis I of Urartu resettled many of its inhabitants in his newly built city of Erebuni (modern day Armenian capital Yerevan). Around 600 BC, Sophene became part of the newly emerged ancient Armenian Kingdom of the Orontids. This dynasty acted as satraps of Persia first under the Median Empire, later under the Achaemenid Empire.