List of battles involving Armenia
Appearance
This is a list of battles involving Armenia and its predecessor states. The list gives the name, the date, the combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:
- Armenian victory
- Armenian defeat
- Another result
- Ongoing conflict
(*e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result,
status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)
Antiquity
[edit]Date | Battle | Modern Location | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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714 BC – mid 7th century BC | Urartu–Assyria War | Middle East, | Urartu–Assyria Wars | Urartu | Assyria | Victory |
1 October 331 BC | Battle of Gaugamela | Middle East | Alexander's invasion of Persia | Macedonia |
Achaemenid Empire | Defeat |
89 BC | Battle of Protopachium | Asia Minor | First Mithridatic War | Roman Empire Kingdom of Bithynia |
Kingdom of Armenia Kingdom of Pontus |
Victory |
6 October 69 BC | Battle of Tigranocerta | Armenian highlands | Third Mithridatic War | Roman Empire | Kingdom of Armenia | Defeat
|
68 BC | Battle of Artaxata | Ararat Province, Armenia | Third Mithridatic War | Roman Empire | Kingdom of Armenia | Defeat |
51 AD | Siege of Garni | Kotayk Province, Armenia | Iberian–Armenian War | Kingdom of Iberia | Kingdom of Armenia Roman Empire |
Defeat
|
Meddle ages
[edit]Date | Battle | Modern Location | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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371 | Battle of Bagavan | Bagavan, Turkey | Sasanian innovation to Armenia | Roman Empire Kingdom of Armenia |
Sasanian Empire Caucasian Albania |
Victory |
26 May 451 | Battle of Avarayr | Avarayr Plain, Iran | Vartanantz war | Sasanian Empire | Christian Armenians | Defeat
|
481 | Battle of Akori | Akori Turkey | Vahanants war | Sasanian Empire | Sasanian Armenia | Victory[7] |
483 | Battle of Nersehapat | Nersehapat Turkey | Vahanants war | Sasanian Empire | Sasanian Armenia | Defeat |
483 | Battle of Akesga | Kura river Georgia | Vahanants war | Sasanian Empire | Sasanian Armenia Kingdom of Iberia |
Defeat[8] |
References
[edit]- ^ Keaveney 1992, p. 118.
- ^ Sherwin-White 1994, p. 242.
- ^ Steel 2013, p. 141.
- ^ Wylie 1994, p. 117.
- ^ Thomson, Robert W. (August 17, 2011). "Avarayr". Encyclopædia Iranica.
So spirited was the Armenian defence, however, that the Persians suffered enormous losses as well. Their victory was pyrrhic and the king, faced with troubles elsewhere, was forced, at least for the time being, to allow the Armenians to worship as they chose.
- ^ Susan Paul Pattie (1997). Faith in History: Armenians Rebuilding Community. Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 40. ISBN 1560986298.
The Armenian defeat in the Battle of Avarayr in 451 proved a pyrrhic victory for the Persians. Though the Armenians lost their commander, Vartan Mamikonian, and most of their soldiers, Persian losses were proportionately heavy, and Armenia was allowed to remain Christian.
- ^ (Grousset 1947, p. 218)
- ^ (Grousset 1947, p. 221)
Sources
[edit]- Keaveney, Arthur (1992). Lucullus: A Life. Routledge.
- Sherwin-White, A. N. (1994). "Lucullus, Pompey and the East 8a - Lucullus, Pompey and the East". In Crook, John; Lintott, Andrew; Rawson, Elizabeth (eds.). The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 9: The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146–43 BC. Vol. 9. Cambridge University Press. pp. 229–273. ISBN 978-0521256032.
- Steel, Catherine (2013). The End of the Roman Republic 146 to 44 BC: Conquest and Crisis. Edinburgh University Press.
- Wylie, Graham J. (1994). "Lucullus Daemoniac". L'Antiquité Classique. 63: 117.
Foiled in this, Lucullus now decided on a midsummer (68 B.C.) offensive deep into Armenia, to crush his «exhausted antagonists»Mithridates and Tigranes who, anticipating such a move, had assembled another large army with a powerful cavalry force to harass his foragers. He brought them to battle north of Lake Van, somewhere on the upper Arsanias, an eastern tributary of the Euphrates, and put their army to flight (PLUT., Luc., 31, 5). Tigranes at once retreated to his capital, Artaxata.