ORIENTAL STUDIES IN ARMENIA VOLUME 3 Արևելագիտությունը Հայաստանում, հատոր 3 | Page 160

tendency to present this country ruled by the Sasanyan crown princes in
Armenia in the 3-rd century within the Sasanyan military-administrative
system. Actually that phenomenon was the part of the Sasanian first ruler’s
policy to solve the crowning problems. Choosing the crown in the way of
monopoly the Sasanian king of kings did their best to srenghten their smart
sets positions as much as they could. For the transferation of the throne they
chose the types of iconography preaching used in earlier Achaemenid Empire
with the military-administrative mechanisms used in Parthian Empire.
Particularly after the example of the Parthian Arshakids, the Sasanyan
Emperors
gave the crown princes a chance to gain some military-
administrative experience providing them with the Persian troops guidance, as
well as with separate points of support in the country's outer front-line and
accentuated their "Second position after the sovereign" in the government
state system.
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