Armenia & The Armenians
THE CEASELESS INVASIONS AND THE PARTITION OF THE EMPIRE
Tigranes' Empire however, was not long lived. He was not able to
withstand the repeated assaults of the Romans in the west and the
Parthians in the east.
As a buffer battleground beween Rome and the Parthians (and their
successors Sassanid Persia) Armenia was subjected to a prolonged period
of invasions, and was finally partitioned between the two empires. Roman
influence prevailed in Armenia, and Tiridates (Drtad III) was restored to
the Armenian throne under Roman Protection (286-330 A.D).
Four years later King Tiridates was converted to Chrisitianity by
St. Gregory the Illuminator (Krikor Lusavoritch), and Armenia entered a
new stage in its history as the world's first Christian state in 301 A.D.
This conversion inevitably plunged Armenia into subsequent
renewed conflict with the fanatically zoroastrian Sassanid Persia.
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