Tigranes, taking the ancient Achaemenid title “king…

Tigranes, taking the ancient Achaemenid title “king of kings,” has built a new royal city, Tigranocerta, on the borders of Armenia and Mesopotamia (the actual site is disputed, but seems to have been located south of present Dyarbakir), where he accumulates all his wealth and to which he has transplanted the inhabitants of twelve Greek towns of Cappadocia, Cilicia, and Syria.