with great pomp, setting fire to the funeral pile with his own hand, and had a sumptuous monument erected to him. Manisarus; ~ 115 AD: He took control over parts of Armenia and Mesopotamia, in the time of Trajan. The Parthian king Osroes declared war against him, which led to Manisarus siding with the Romans. J̌on / Čon; Only attested in the 5th-century Armenian work Buzandaran Patmut‘iwnk‘. His name may have been an Armenian transliteration of the Roman name Iovinianus. Iovinianus; Attested in 359 by Roman soldier and historian Ammianus Marcellinus (died between 391–400). Corduene, Carduchi, and the Kurds Some identify Corduene and Carduchi with the modern Kurds, considering that Carduchi was the ancient lexical equivalent of "Kurdistan". It has been suggested that Corduene was proto-Kurdish or as equivalent to modern-day Kurdistan. Other modern scholars reject a Kurdish connection. There were numerous forms of this name, partly due to the difficulty of representing kh in Latin. The spelling Karduchoi is itself probably borrowed from Armenian, since the termination -choi represents the Armenian language plural suffix -k'. It is speculated that Carduchi spoke an Old Iranian language. See also Ark of Nuh or Noah Armenian highlands Mountains of Ararat Moxoene Thamanin Zagros Mountains Mount Judi Notes Sources External links Corduene or Gordyene, Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography. Geography, Strabo, Book XVI, Chapter 1, Section 24. Kurds and Kurdistan, see section iii History, subsection A Origins and Pre-Islamic History, Encyclopaedia of Islam. Map of Corduene Map of Gordyene between Assyria and Lake Van Theodor Mommsen History of Rome, The Establishment of the Military Monarchy, Page 53 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Roman History, by Cassius Dio, Book XXX The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2, Chapter XXIV, Part IV, The Retreat and Death of Julian], by Edward Gibbon. History of Rome, The Establishment of the Military Monarchy, by Theodor Mommsen, page 24. History of the Later Roman Empire, by J. B. Bury, Chapter IV. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7: The Sassanian or New Persian Empire, 1871, by George Rawlinson. Historical regions in Turkey Provinces of the Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity) History of Şırnak Province