https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Kingdom_of_Cilicia
Early Armenian migrations to Cilicia Cilicia under Tigranes the Great. Armenian presence in Cilicia dates back to the first century BC, when under Tigranes the Great, the Kingdom of Armenia expanded and conquered a vast region in the Levant.In 83 BC, the Greek aristocracy of Seleucid Syria, weakened by a bloody civil war, offered their allegiance to the ambitious Armenian king.