15 Facts About Adiabene

Adiabene was an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia, corresponding to the northwestern part of ancient Assyria.

The first instance of a recorded Adiabenian ruler is in 69 BC, when an unnamed king of Adiabene participated in the battle of Tigranocerta as an ally of the Armenian king Tigranes the Great.

Adiabene was conquered by the Parthian king Mithridates I in ca.

Queen Helena of Adiabene moved to Jerusalem, where she built palaces for herself and her sons, Izates bar Monobaz and Monobaz II at the northern part of the city of David, south of the Temple Mount, and aided the Jews in their war with Rome.

Ardashir II is the last figure to be recorded as king of Adiabene, which implies that the kingdom was after his tenure in c transformed into a province, governed by a non-royal delegate of the Sasanian king.

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Adiabene occupied a district in Median Empire between the Upper Zab and the Lower Zab, though Ammianus speaks of Nineveh, Ecbatana, and Gaugamela as belonging to it.

Adiabene had a mixed population of Jews, Assyrians, Arameans, Greeks, and Iranians.

In later times Adiabene became an archbishopric, with the seat of the metropolitan at Arbela.

Adiabene was a district in Mesopotamia between upper and lower Zab and was a part of the Neo Assyrian Empire and inhabited by Assyrians even after the fall of Nineveh.

Under the Achaemenid Persian kings, Adiabene seems for a time to have been a vassal state of the Persian Empire.

At times the throne of Adiabene was held by a member of the Achaemenid house; Ardashir III, before he came to the throne of Persia, had the title "King of Hadyab".

Queen Helena of Adiabene moved to Jerusalem where she built palaces for herself and her sons, Izates bar Monobaz and Monobaz II at the northern part of the city of David, south of the Temple Mount, and aided Jews in their war with Rome.

Nominally Zoroastrian, the people of Adiabne were tolerant toward Judaism, and permitted the establishment of Jewish communities there, The Jews of Edessa, Nisibis, and Adiabene repaid them by being among the most vigorous opponents of Trajan.

Adiabene remained a province of the Sasanians Empire until the Muslim conquest of Persia.

Between the 5th and the 14th centuries Adiabene was a metropolitan province of the Assyrian Church of the East.