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en-wikipedia-org-1298		Orontes II - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2046	404	72	Orontes II (Old Persian: *Arvanta-, Armenian: Երուանդ , Yervand ) was a Persian noble living in the 4th century BC.[1] He is probably to be identified as the satrap of Armenia under Darius III, and may in fact have succeeded Darius in this position when Darius ascended the throne of Persia in 336 BC.[1] Diodorus and Polyaenus mention a man named Orontes, who was a Satrap of Armenia during the Second War of the Diadochi;[10][11] Diodorus adds that this Orontes was a friend of Peucestas.[10] Andrew Burn, Edward Anson and Waldemar Heckel consider this satrap to be the same Orontes who fought for Darius III in the Battle of Gaugamela;[12][1][13] Anson and Heckel state that Mithrenes may have perished in an unsuccessful attempt to wrest Armenia from Orontes.[1][13] Heckel stated that in all likehood Armenia, which was bypassed by the Macedonian army, was never part of Alexander's empire.[1] Anson, on the other hand, considered it likely that at some point after the Battle of Gaugamela Orontes made his submission to Alexander, who later put him in charge of the Greater Armenia.[13] N.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1298.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1298.txt