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Muracan

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Muracan was a Median[1]-Mannaean[2] dynasty which ruled in parts of southeastern Anatolia. It was subdued by the Artaxiads.

According to tradition, they were descendants of Astyages.[3]

References

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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