What is Orobazus?

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Orobazus was the ambassador of the Parthian king Mithridates who contacted the Roman magistrate Lucius Cornelius Sulla. This was the first meeting between a Parthian and a Roman official. The results of this meeting are not clear, but it is generally known that during the meeting Sulla was sitting between the Parthian ambassador and Ariobarzanes the king of Cappadocia. For this the Parthian king put Orobazus to death for allowing a Roman magistrate to treat a Parthian envoy arrogantly.

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Parthian may refer to:
  • Parthia
  • Parthian language
  • Parthian shot
  • Indo-Parthian Kingdom
  • Seven Parthian clans
  • Parthian class submarine

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Mithridates or Mithradates (in Greek, Mιθριδάτης or Mιθράδάτης) is the Hellenistic form of an Iranian theophoric name meaning "given by Mithra
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Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea.
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stipendary magistrate in New Zealand was renamed in 1980 to that of district court judge. The position was often known simply as magistrate, or the postnominal initials SM after a magistrate's name in newspapers' court reports.
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Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (Latin: L•CORNELIVS•L•F•P•N•SVLLA•FELIX )[1] (ca. 138 BC–78 BC), usually known simply as Sulla, was a Roman general, consul and dictator.
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Ariobarzanes is name of the Persian satrap who fought Alexander the Great at the Battle of the Persian Gate on his way to Persepolis (330 BC).

Ariobarzanes is the name of a number of ancient kings or satraps members of the Mithridatic dynasty that ruled Pontus.
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State Party  Turkey
Type Mixed
Criteria i, iii, v, vii
Reference 357
Region Europe

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