Urnayr
Sign in to saveUrnayr (attested only as Old Armenian Ուռնայր ) was the third Arsacid king of Caucasian Albania from approximately 350 to 375. He was the successor of Vache I ().
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Urnayr
- Royalty.succession
- King of Caucasian Albania
- Royalty.reign
- 350–375
- Royalty.predecessor
- Vache I
- Royalty.successor
- Vachagan II
- Royalty.spouse
- Daughter of Shapur II
- Royalty.issue
- Aswagen
- Royalty.house
- Arsacid
- Royalty.mother
- Sasanian princess
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Urnayr (attested only as Old Armenian Ուռնայր ) was the third Arsacid king of Caucasian Albania from approximately 350 to 375. He was the successor of Vache I ().
== Biography == thumb|Map of Caucasian Albania The Treaty of Nisibis in 299 between the Sasanian King of Kings (shahanshah) Narseh () and the Roman emperor Diocletian had ended disastrously for the Sasanians, who ceded them huge chunks of their territory, including the Caucasian kingdoms of Armenia and Iberia. The Sasanians would not take part in the political affairs of the Caucasus for almost 40 years.