Arsacid dynasty of Caucasian Albania
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The Arsacid Dynasty was a dynasty of Parthian origin, which ruled the kingdom of Caucasian Albania from the 1st to the 5th century AD. They were a branch of the Parthian Arsacid dynasty and together with the Arsacid rulers of the neighboring Armenia and Iberia formed a pan-Arsacid family federation.[1] The Arsacids were succeeded by the Mihranid dynasty. The historian Movses Kaghankatvatsi provided a list of the last ten Arsacid kings of Albania from Vachagan I the Brave in the 2nd half of the third century to Vachagan III the Pious at the end of the fifth.[2] It included the following rulers:
- Vachagan the Brave
- Vache I
- Urnayr
- Vachagan II
- Mirhavan
- Satoy
- Asay
- Aswagen
- Vache II
- Vachagan III the Pious
References
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Iranica. Arsacids
- ↑ Robert H. Hewsen. Notes and Communications. On the Chronology of Movses Dasxuranci.Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 27, No. 1. (1964), pp. 151-156.
