The Smbat walls were medieval fortifications built during the 10th century in the Kingdom of Armenia. The walls were made from smoothly hewn yellow stones...
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Armenia Smbat VI Bagratuni (died 726), presiding prince of Armenia Smbat VII Bagratuni (died 775), presiding prince of Armenia Smbat I (850–912), Smbat the...
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Smbat II (Armenian: Սմբատ Բ Տիեզերակալ, Smbat II Master of the Universe) reigned as King of Armenia from 977 to 989. He was of the Bagratuni line of kings...
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Ani (section The city walls)
of walls, the much taller inner wall studded by numerous large and closely spaced semicircular towers. Contemporary chroniclers wrote that King Smbat (977–989)...
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Bagratid Armenia (section Smbat I)
successor, Smbat II. Ani had grown so large by the time of Smbat's accession in 977, that a second set of walls, known as the Smbatashen walls, were ordered...
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Smbat VI Bagratuni (ca. 670 – 726) was a member of the Bagratuni family who was presiding prince of Armenia with interruptions from 691 to the 710s. During...
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Bagratuni kings Smbat II (r. 977–990) and Gagik I (r. 990–1020) are the ones buried there, although the historian Stepanos Asoghik reports that Smbat was buried...
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by Queen Khosrovanuysh, wife of Ahot III, and completed in 991 by king Smbat. It is a typical example of tenth-century Armenian architecture, its central...
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recalled Smbat IV Bagratuni from Sasanian Armenia and sent him to repel the Turko-Hephthalites, who had raided as far as Spahan in central Iran. Smbat, with...
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Alexander (Smbat) Abian (January 1, 1923 – July 24, 1999) was an Iranian-born Armenian-American mathematician who taught for over 25 years at Iowa State...
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Muhammad. He razed the walls of Maragha and moved the capital to Ardabil. Shortly afterwards, the Bagratid king of Armenia, Smbat I, offered to become a...
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troops seized and despoiled the weak Roman forces and then let them go. — Smbat Sparapet: Chronicle Emperor Manuel I Comnenus persuaded the Seljuk sultan...
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identified by Toumanoff, Smbat I, lived at the time of the Armenian conversion to Christianity (c. 314). Starting with Smbat, the Bagratunis held the...
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(Holy Saviour) built in the 880s by king Smbat I of Armenia, was among the notable landmarks of the city. Smbat was later crowned as king in the Surp Prkich...
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grandson of Ivane, and my brothers, handsome as lions, the princes Burtel, Smbat and Elikom of the Orbelian Dynasty, and my wife Khorishah daughter of Vardan...
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Jerusalem and the Frankish East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle The Barony of Cilician Armenia (Kurkjian's History...
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History page on Cilician history[permanent dead link] The Barony of Cilician Armenia (Kurkjian's History of Armenia, Ch. 27) Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle...
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Armenia Sahak II Bagratuni Armenia Shahraplakan Armenia Shapur Mihran Armenia Smbat IV Bagratuni Armenia Tamkhosrau Armenia Tan-Shapur Armenia Varaz Vzur Armenia...
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divides his kingdom among his three sons: Hovhannes-Smbat, Abas and Ashot. The first-born Hovhannes-Smbat receives the crown of Ani, the possession of the...
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Sasanian Empire prior to his death and defeat in battle against Smbat Bagratuni in 596 AD. Smbat was rewarded and appointed marzban of Hyrcania, which he served...
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prince Smbat of the Syuni dynasty. According to another view, the local inhabitants gave the fortress this name because the Orbelian ruler Smbat (r. 1251–1273)...
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(the vestibule) was built by Smbat Orbelyan in 1261. It is a large pillarless hall, the semi-arches rising from the walls intersect diagonally and form...
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it was built especially from huge stones and over a wide and unbreakable wall with a height of 15-20 meters. Menuapili of which there are still many parts...
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dynasty, ruling in Ani from 1042 to 1045. During the reign of Hovhannes-Smbat (John-Smbat), a feudal lord, David, who owned Taik during his battles against...
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Euphrates. Sarduri II was so confident in his power that he erected a massive wall at Tushpa (modern-day Van) with the following inscription: the magnificent...
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Pahlavouni (died 1046) founded the monastery in the year 989. The son of Vahram, Smbat Magistros Pahlavuni, is thought to have founded the main church, Surp Astuacacin...
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King of Armenia Smbat I. After that, Yusuf wanted to occupy the Armenian citadel, which resisted the Arabian army too long. He killed Smbat I in front of...
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Amenaprkich [Wikidata] ("Holy Savior"). Their sons Kiurike (Gurgen) and Smbat, founded a congregation, a high school, invited clergymen, scholars, and...
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escape, half-dead, with his life, and he was sent in fetters to Vahka. — Smbat Sparapet: Chronicle Bohemond IV, however, deposed the Latin Patriarch of...
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from his neighbbours and enemies in Rum, sent his brother, the Constable Smbat (Sempad) to Guyug's court to offer his submission." "Under the influence...
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