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- Ancient site.name
- Tigranocerta
- Ancient site.image
- File:Location of Tigranocerta within the Kingdom Armenia.png
- Ancient site.caption
- Kingdom of Armenia
- Ancient site.location
- Arzanene Province, Kingdom of Armenia(near Diyarbakır, Turkey)
- Ancient site.builder
- Tigranes the Great
- Ancient site.built
- 83–78 BC
- Ancient site.epochs
- Hellenistic period
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- 0078-00-00
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Tigranocerta (, Tigranόkerta; Tigranakert; ), also called Cholimma or Chlomaron in antiquity, was a city and the capital of the Armenian Kingdom between 77 and 69 BCE. It bore the name of Tigranes the Great, who founded the city in the first century BC. There is so far no common agreement on the precise location of Tigranakert; it was either near present-day Silvan, Arzan (Arzn, in the Armenian province of Arzanene or Aghdznik), east of Diyarbakır, Turkey, or in the valley of the Garzan river mentioned by T. A. Sinclair. It was one of four cities in historic Armenia named Tigranakert. The others were in Nakhichevan, Artsakh and Utik, the 4 cities being in the old Armenian provinces Aldznik, Goghtn, Utik, Artsakh.
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