Tigranocerta
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 77 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.142, 41.001
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: capital of the ancient Kingdom of Armenia
History
Tigranocerta, also called Cholimma or Chlomaron in late antiquity, was a city and the capital of the Armenian Kingdom between 77 and 69 BCE. It bore the name of Tigranes the Great, who founded the city in the first century BC .There is no common agreement on the precise location of Tigranocerta; it was either near present-day Silvan, or Arzan, east of Diyarbakır, Turkey, or in the valley of the Garzan river as mentioned by T. A. Sinclair It was one of four cities in historic Armenia named Tigranakert; the others were in Nakhichevan, Artsakh, and Utik.