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List of battles involving Armenia

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

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Date Battle Modern Location Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
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 Pontus
Artaxiad Armenia 		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

Middle ages

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Date Battle Modern Location Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
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
  • Although the Persians were victorious on the battlefield, it was a pyrrhic victory
  • The Armenians were allowed to continue practising Christianity freely.[5][6]
483 Battle of Nersehapat Nersehapat   Turkey Vahanants war  Sasanian Empire Sasanian Armenia Defeat

References

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  1. ^ Keaveney 1992, p. 118.
  2. ^ Sherwin-White 1994, p. 242.
  3. ^ Steel 2013, p. 141.
  4. ^ Wylie 1994, p. 117.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.

Sources

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  • 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.
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