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Satrapy of Armenia
The
Satrapy of Armenia
(;
Old Persian
:
Armina
or
Arminiya
), a region controlled by the
Orontid Dynasty
(570-201 BC) was one of the
satrapies
of the
Achaemenid Empire
in the 6th century BC, which later became an independent
kingdom
. Its capitals were
Tushpa
and later
Erebuni
.
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