Armenians was divided between the Ottomans and the Safavid Empire in Iran. In the Bronze Age, several states flourished in the area of Greater Armenia, including the Hittite Empire (at the height of its power), Mitanni (South-Western historical Armenia), and Hayasa-Azzi (1600–1200 BC). Soon after Hayasa-Azzi came Arme-Shupria (1300s–1190 BC), the Nairi (1400–1000 BC) and the Kingdom of Urartu (860–590 BC), who successively established their sovereignty over the Armenian Highland. Each of the aforementioned nations and tribes participated in the ethnogenesis of the Armenian people. Under Ashurbanipal (669–627 BC), the Assyrian empire reached the Caucasus Mountains (modern Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan).
Eudocia (Cappadocia) Eudocia (Cappadocia) Although William Smith's "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography" (1854) said that the "Synecdemus" of Hierocles mentions four towns in Asia Minor called Eudocia (), including one in Cappadocia, the text of the "Synecdemus" as edited by Gustav Parthey in 1866 mentions no town of that name or of any similar name among the Cappadocian towns. Smith also said that the town had formerly belonged to the Anatolian Theme but Leo VI incorporated it into Cappadocia. The "Synecdemus" was composed, under Justinian (527–565), before 535, three and a half centuries before the time of Leo VI, who reigned