The last independent king of Babylon was an Armenian by the name of Arakha also known as Nebuchadnezzar IV. After the Achaemenid conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, several attempts were made by the Babylonians to rebel against the Persian conquerors. The first attempt was led by Nidintu-Bêl and was violently suppressed by Darius the...
Prince Valerian Madatov
Prince Valerian Grigoryevich Madatov (1782 – September 4, 1829) was a Russian prince of Armenian ancestry and a lieutenant-general of the Russian Empire. Madatov was born Rostom Madatyan in 1782 in Avetaranots, a village of the historical Varanda county of Nagorno-Karabakh, in a minor Armenian noble family as a melik (prince). At the age of 15 he left Karabakh for St....
