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Muracan

Muracan was a Median-Mannaean dynasty which ruled in parts of southeastern Anatolia. It was subdued by the Artaxiads.

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Muracan was a Median1-Mannaean2 dynasty which ruled in parts of southeastern Anatolia. It was subdued by the Artaxiads.

According to tradition, they were descendants of Astyages.3

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  1. Nikoghayos Adontsʻ, Nina G. Garsoïan, 1970, Armenia in the period of Justinian: the political conditions based on the Naxarar system, p. 323, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, University of Michigan
  2. Le Muséon, Volume 72, 1959, University of Michigan, p. 375
  3. Johannes Quasten, Stephan Kuttner, 1961, Traditio: Volume 17, p. 68, Institute of Research and Study in Medieval Canon Law, Fordham University Press