Editing History of Armenia (section)

===Roman Armenia===
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[[File:Roman Empire - Armenia (117 AD).svg|thumb|The Roman Empire at its greatest extent, with the "Roman Province of Armenia".]]
From [[Pompey|Pompeius]]' campaign Armenia was, for the next few centuries, contested between Rome and Parthia/Sassanid Persia on the other hand. Roman emperor [[Trajan]] even created a short-lived Province of Armenia between 114 and 118 AD.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jbS5KHJ4uqcC&pg=PA140|title=Cassio Dione e l'impero romano da Nerva ad Antonino Pio|isbn=9788834310656|last1=Migliorati|first1=Guido|year=2003|publisher=Vita e Pensiero }}</ref>

Indeed, Roman supremacy was fully established by the [[Roman–Parthian War of 58–63|campaigns]] of [[Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo]],<ref>[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Asia/Armenia/_Texts/KURARM/15*.html Vahan Kurkjian: Armenia and the Romans]</ref> that ended with a formal compromise: a Parthian prince of the [[Arsacid dynasty of Armenia|Arsacid]] line would henceforth sit on the Armenian throne, but his nomination had to be approved by the Roman emperor.

Because this agreement was not respected by the Parthian Empire, in 114 [[Trajan]] from [[Antioch]]ia in Syria marched on Armenia and conquered the capital [[Artaxata]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=DuBois |first=Michael |url=https://www.google.am/books/edition/Legio/ZIZPCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=in+114+Trajan+conquered+the+capital+Artaxata.&pg=PA252&printsec=frontcover |title=Legio |date=2015-12-16 |publisher= |isbn=978-1-329-76783-6 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Authors |first=Several |url=https://www.google.am/books/edition/History_of_The_Roman_Legions/OLQ2CwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=in+114+Trajan+conquered+the+capital+Artaxata.&pg=PT638&printsec=frontcover |title=History of The Roman Legions: History of Rome |date=2015-12-17 |publisher=Self-Publish |language=en}}</ref> Trajan then deposed the Armenian king [[Parthamasiris of Armenia|Parthamasiris]] (imposed by the Parthians) and ordered the annexation of Armenia to the Roman Empire as a new province.
The new province reached the shores of the [[Caspian Sea]] and bordered to the north with [[Kingdom of Iberia|Caucasian Iberia]] and [[Caucasian Albania]], two vassal states of Rome. As a Roman province Armenia was administered by Catilius Severus of the [[Claudia gens|Gens Claudia]]. After Trajan's death, however, his successor [[Hadrian]] decided not to maintain the province of Armenia. In 118 AD, Hadrian gave Armenia up, and installed [[Parthamaspates of Parthia|Parthamaspates]] as its "vassal" king.