Armenian Faction
After the destruction of the Seleucid Empire, a Hellenistic Armenian state was founded in 190 BC, with Artashes becoming its first kings and the founder of the Artashesid dynasty (190 BC - 1 AD). At its zenith, from 95 to 66 BC, Armenia extended its rule over parts of the Caucasus and the area that is now eastern Turkey, Syria and Lebanon. For a time, Armenia was one of the most powerful states in the Roman East. It came under Roman control in 66 BC, and the Armenian people adopted a Western political, philosophical, and religious orientation. According to Strabo, around this time everyone in Armenia spoke "the same language."
Armenia was often a focus of contention between Rome and Persia. The Sassanid Persians occupied Armenia in 252 and held it until the Romans returned in 287.
In 301, Armenia became the first nation to adopt Christianity as a state religion. It established a church that still exists independently of both the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox churches, having become so in 451 as a result of its excommunication by the Council of Chalcedon. The Armenian Apostolic Church is a part of the Oriental Orthodox communion, not to be confused with the Eastern Orthodox communion.
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