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The term “Armenia” (Armina) is first found in the Behistun inscription around 521 BC. e. Persian king Darius I to designate Persian satrapies on the territory of the former kingdom of Urartu. Of the later Greek sources, two satrapies are known with the same name: Western Armenia and Eastern Armenia. On the territory of the latter the hereditary rules of the Orontid dynasty (Yervandidov, Armenian Yervanduni).
After the fall of the Achaemenid kingdom under the blows of the Macedonians, the Armenian lands were actually independent [23]. The rulers of southern Armenia recognized the power of Alexander, but this recognition remained purely formal: Alexander himself did not pass through Armenia, his military leaders also failed to penetrate its territory. Since the end of the IV century BC. e. in Armenia, independent or semi-independent states are emerging.
Satrap Yervand (Orontes) during the struggle of the Diadochi in 316 BC. e. created an independent kingdom of Ararat in 220 BC. e. (According to other data, about 200 BC, the Armenian Ararat kingdom was annexed by the Seleucid king Antiochus III to the part of Armenia under his control, located in the Lake Van region and along the upper Tigris, which henceforth began to be called Great. Thus, by the end of the III century before AD almost all Armenian lands came under the rule of the Seleucids. At about the same time, in the III – early II century BC, Armenians settled almost the entire territory, which subsequently constituted historical Armenia
As Zaevfratskaya Minor Armenia departed from the main line of development of ancient Armenian statehood, the designation “Greater Armenia” also acquired an independent meaning and became the official name of the ancient Armenian state []. It is in this sense that it is used in the Greek inscription from Garni, 77 AD. e. Tsar Trdat I, (Greek Μεγάλη Ἀρμενία, Megalo Armenia – “Greater Armenia”). Also, King Bakur in the Roman inscription of the II century is named the king of Great Armenia: “Aurelius Pacorus, King of Great Armenia” (Greek Αύρήλιι ςκορος βασιλεύς μεγάλης Άρμενίας). This name of the state is also recorded in other inscriptions, for example, in the inscription of Tsar Trdat III at the beginning of the 4th century, found in Aparan]. The same designation is also used in other foreign languages - Latin, Persian, Georgian, Russian and other sources.
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