Media Atropatene
Media Atropatene - a state and region composed of the north-eastern part of the former Medemathean satrapii Medii, isolated from it in 323 BC.
After Alexander's death, his companions divorced Media into two provinces, with the smaller northern part falling to Persia Atropates, the former satrap of the whole of Media. He refused to join any of the diadoches and made his own independent kingdom a miniature satrap. From then on, this part of Media was known to the Greeks as Media Atropatene, or simply Atropatene, hence the Middle Ages Āturpātakān, later Ādurbādagān, and finally the Ādarbāyjān, or Azerbaijani. The Atropatha Dynasty was reigned at Atropatene, periodically subjecting the Seleucids and Parthians to the 10th, when Artabanus, the future king of the Parthia, occupied Media Atropatene. The last representatives of the Atropathi dynasty went to exile in Rome. In 12, Artabanus II (III), after the overthrow of Wonones I, sat on the Parthian throne. Then he gave Medina Atropatene Wonones, probably a younger brother and future King of the Part. Atropatene was part of the Parthian empire and then the Sasanids until the conquest of the Arabs in 651. Bibliography
Schippmann K. Azerbaijan. Pre-islamic history w Encyclopaedia Iranica.
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