ATROPATENE KINGDOM

-was an ancient kingdom established and ruled by Iranian dynasties in the 4th century BC in modern Iranian Azarbaijan and Iranian Kurdistan.Atropatene also was the nominal ancestor of the name Azarbaijan.


Atropatene Kingdom-green



FACTION GOALS

Capture(number)of settlements and destroy or outlive faction/factions:Seleucid Empire

Why?

No armenia- "It does not seem to have given border conflicts with the western neighbour Armenia."

However Parthia did fought against Armenia but Atropatene didn't and Atropatene was directly an ally of Parthia.In 20 BC Atropatena became fully dependent on Parthia as one of its provinces and lost its statehood!


Seleucid Empire-it is written that they opposed the hellenization and preserved its Iranian tradition...So by this they must have been at war?

FACTION LEADER NAMES

Artavasdes III,Artavasdes I and Aristobanes II later become kings of Armenia,but I couldn't find how.

There are no leaders that stood out mostly for this faction!

Atropates(first king)
Artabazanes
Mithridates I
Aristobanes I
Darius
Artavasdes I
Aristobanes II
Artavasdes III
Artabanos
Bagayash
Pakoros
Vonones
Artabanos III
Ariovast
Artavasdes II
Ariobarzanes II
Artashes
Ariobarzanes I
Dareios
Gotarzes
Artabazos

ATROPATENE CITIES



map of the cities(I couldn't find a bigger map of the cities)

important cities:

Ghazakka(capital city of Atropatene Kingdom)
Phraaspa(However isn't on the map,but you know where it is from playing RTW-It was the most important fortress of the Atropatene Kingdom!)

ATROPATENE RELIGION-GODS

Atropatene people(mostly persians) had Ahura Mazda religion...Zoroastrism and Ahura Mazda are relate but however different religions.Atropatene Kingdom and Parthia had Ahura Mazda religion and Sassanids in BI had Zoroastrism and at that time Ahura Mazda stop existing!..Ahura Mazda is described as the highest deity of worship in Zoroastrianism(so it is part of Zoroastrism but from the begining it was a religion for itself!), along with being the first and most frequently invoked deity in the Yasna!!!!...

Keep the religion of the Parthians from RTW

And as you can see this religion wasn't polytheistic like most of them from this time,it was monotheistic(one god)...So keep the one shrine and description for it from RTW!

ATROPATENE KINGDOM ARMY

Persian archers



Iranian foot archers



Persian infantry



Elite spearman



Nomad archers



Eastern infantry



Persian royal guard



Hillmen



Parthian medium sperarman



Horse archers



Heavy cavalry



light peltasts


desert skirmishes



Levy spearman




Atropatene slingers



light cavalry



Persian elephants