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'''Atropates''' ([[Bahasa Yunani]] Aτρoπάτης, dari [[Persia KunaKuno]] ''Aturpat'' "dilindungi oleh api";<ref name="Chaumont">{{citation|last=Chaumont|first=M. L.|chapter=Atropates|title=Encyclopaedia Iranica|volume=3.1|year=1989|location=London|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|chapter-url=http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v3f1/v3f1a020.html}}</ref>; [[370 SM]]-setelah [[321 SM]]) adalah bangsawan [[orang Persia|Persia]]<ref>''Miniature Empires: A Historical Dictionary of the Newly Independent States'' by James Minahan, published in 2000, page 20</ref><ref name="Lendering">{{cite web|last=Lendering|first=Jona|url=http://www.livius.org/as-at/atropates/atropates.htm|title=Atropates (Biography)|publisher=Livius.org|accessdate=2007-12-10|archive-date=2007-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029173948/http://www.livius.org/as-at/atropates/atropates.htm|dead-url=yes}}</ref><ref>Chamoux, Francois. ''Hellenistic Civilization''. Blackwell Publishing, published 2003, page 26</ref><ref>Bosworth, A.B., and Baynham, E.J. ''Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction''. Oxford, published 2002, page 92</ref><ref>Encyclopedia Iranica, "Azerbaijan: Pre-Islamic History", K. Shippmann
</ref> yang melayani [[Darius III]], nantinya [[Alexander yang agung]], dan membentuk kerajaan baru dan dinasti yang dinamai dengan namanya. [[Diodorus]] (18.4) merujukannya sebagai 'Atrapes', sementara [[Quintus Curtius]] (8.3.17) keliru menyebutnya 'Arsaces'.
