List of battles involving Armenia

This is a list of battles involving Armenia and its predecessor states. The list gives the name, the date, the combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:

Armenian victory

Armenian defeat

Another result

Ongoing conflict

(*e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result,
status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)

Antiquity

Date	Battle	Modern Location	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
714 BC – mid 7th century BC	Urartu–Assyria War	Middle East,	Urartu–Assyria Wars	Urartu	Assyria	Victory
1 October 331 BC	Battle of Gaugamela	Middle East	Alexander's invasion of Persia	Macedonia	Achaemenid Empire	Defeat
89 BC	Battle of Protopachium	Asia Minor	First Mithridatic War	Roman Empire Kingdom of Bithynia	Kingdom of Armenia Kingdom of Pontus	Victory
6 October 69 BC	Battle of Tigranocerta	Armenian highlands	Third Mithridatic War	Roman Empire	Kingdom of Armenia	Defeat Lucullus defeated Tigranes II
68 BC	Battle of Artaxata	Ararat Province, Armenia	Third Mithridatic War	Roman Empire	Kingdom of Armenia	Defeat Lucullus defeated both Tigranes II and Mithradates VI of Pontus^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]
51 AD	Siege of Garni	Kotayk Province, Armenia	Iberian–Armenian War	Kingdom of Iberia	Kingdom of Armenia Roman Empire	Defeat Rhadamistus ascended on the Armenian throne

Meddle ages

Date	Battle	Modern Location	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
371	Battle of Bagavan	Bagavan, Turkey	Sasanian innovation to Armenia	Roman Empire Kingdom of Armenia	Sasanian Empire Caucasian Albania	Victory
26 May 451	Battle of Avarayr	Avarayr Plain, Iran	Vartanantz war	Sasanian Empire	Christian Armenians	Defeat Although the Persians were victorious on the battlefield, it was a pyrrhic victory The Armenians were allowed to continue practising Christianity freely.^[5]^[6]
481	Battle of Akori	Akori Turkey	Vahanants war	Sasanian Empire	Sasanian Armenia	Victory^[7]
483	Battle of Nersehapat	Nersehapat Turkey	Vahanants war	Sasanian Empire	Sasanian Armenia	Defeat
483	Battle of Akesga	Kura river Georgia	Vahanants war	Sasanian Empire	Sasanian Armenia Kingdom of Iberia	Defeat^[8]

References

^ Keaveney 1992, p. 118.
^ Sherwin-White 1994, p. 242.
^ Steel 2013, p. 141.
^ Wylie 1994, p. 117.
^ Thomson, Robert W. (August 17, 2011). "Avarayr". Encyclopædia Iranica. So spirited was the Armenian defence, however, that the Persians suffered enormous losses as well. Their victory was pyrrhic and the king, faced with troubles elsewhere, was forced, at least for the time being, to allow the Armenians to worship as they chose.
^ Susan Paul Pattie (1997). Faith in History: Armenians Rebuilding Community. Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 40. ISBN 1560986298. The Armenian defeat in the Battle of Avarayr in 451 proved a pyrrhic victory for the Persians. Though the Armenians lost their commander, Vartan Mamikonian, and most of their soldiers, Persian losses were proportionately heavy, and Armenia was allowed to remain Christian.
^ (Grousset 1947, p. 218)
^ (Grousset 1947, p. 221)

Sources

Keaveney, Arthur (1992). Lucullus: A Life. Routledge.
Sherwin-White, A. N. (1994). "Lucullus, Pompey and the East 8a - Lucullus, Pompey and the East". In Crook, John; Lintott, Andrew; Rawson, Elizabeth (eds.). The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 9: The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146–43 BC. Vol. 9. Cambridge University Press. pp. 229–273. ISBN 978-0521256032.
Steel, Catherine (2013). The End of the Roman Republic 146 to 44 BC: Conquest and Crisis. Edinburgh University Press.
Wylie, Graham J. (1994). "Lucullus Daemoniac". L'Antiquité Classique. 63: 117. Foiled in this, Lucullus now decided on a midsummer (68 B.C.) offensive deep into Armenia, to crush his «exhausted antagonists»Mithridates and Tigranes who, anticipating such a move, had assembled another large army with a powerful cavalry force to harass his foragers. He brought them to battle north of Lake Van, somewhere on the upper Arsanias, an eastern tributary of the Euphrates, and put their army to flight (PLUT., Luc., 31, 5). Tigranes at once retreated to his capital, Artaxata.

[FOOTNOTEKeaveney1992118-1] Keaveney 1992, p. 118.

[FOOTNOTESherwin-White1994242-2] Sherwin-White 1994, p. 242.

[FOOTNOTESteel2013141-3] Steel 2013, p. 141.

[FOOTNOTEWylie1994117-4] Wylie 1994, p. 117.

[Hewsen-5] Thomson, Robert W. (August 17, 2011). "Avarayr". Encyclopædia Iranica. So spirited was the Armenian defence, however, that the Persians suffered enormous losses as well. Their victory was pyrrhic and the king, faced with troubles elsewhere, was forced, at least for the time being, to allow the Armenians to worship as they chose.

[Pattie-6] Susan Paul Pattie (1997). Faith in History: Armenians Rebuilding Community. Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 40. ISBN 1560986298. The Armenian defeat in the Battle of Avarayr in 451 proved a pyrrhic victory for the Persians. Though the Armenians lost their commander, Vartan Mamikonian, and most of their soldiers, Persian losses were proportionately heavy, and Armenia was allowed to remain Christian.

[7] (Grousset 1947, p. 218)

[8] (Grousset 1947, p. 221)

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