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Armenia's Lost Kingdom: The Orontid Dynasty and the Rise of Yervanduni
Before Tigran the Great and the Artaxiad empire, before the Arsacid and Bagratid kingdoms, Armenia's first documented royal dynasty was the Orontids — the Yervanduni — who rose from the ashes of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the shadowy origins of Armenian statehood in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, when the satrapy of Armenia under Persian rule gradually transformed into a semi-independent kingdom. Drawing on Greek sources like Xenophon's Anabasis, Armenian traditions recorded by Movses Khorenatsi, and archaeological evidence from the sites…
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