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ROMAIN THURIN

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A people inhabiting the eastern regions of Anatolia, between the Iranian plateau, CAUCASUS Mountains, and CILICIA (Bournoutian 2006, 5). Herodotus indicates that they originally came from PHRYGIA (7.73; cf. Strabo 11.14.12/C530), settled north of ASSYRIA (1.194.2), and were, like their Cilician neighbors, a people rich in flocks (5.49.6). In his Babylonian LOGOS, Herodotus describes the Armenians’ method of transport and TRADE via the EUPHRATES RIVER—using collapsible boats of skin and reed—the second‐greatest wonder of the region, after BABYLON itself (1.194). Armenia was part of the thirteenth provincial district of the Persian Empire under DARIUS I (3.93.1), and Armenians fought in XERXES’ invasion force of 480 BCE, alongside Phrygians, under the command of ARTOCHMES (7.73).

SEE ALSO: Ethnography; Satrapies; thōmata