Sophene

Sophene Ծոփք Provincia Sophene
Province of the ancient kingdom of Armenia
189 BC–530 AD.
Sophene in the south-west of the Kingdom of Armenia (spelled "Dzopk" in the Western Armenian dialect).
Capital	Carcathiocerta (Eğil), later Arshamashat (Elazığ)
History
• Artaxias I declaring himself independent	189 BC
• Included in the province of Armenia	530 AD.

Sophene (Armenian: Ծոփք, romanized: Tsopkʻ or Չորրորդ Հայք, lit. 'fourth Armenia'; Ancient Greek: Σωφηνή, romanized: Sōphēnē) was a province of the ancient kingdom of Armenia, located in the south-west of the kingdom, and of the Roman Empire. The region lies in what is now southeastern Turkey.^[1]