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...

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...

Smbat II (Armenian: Սմբատ Բ Տիեզերակալ, romanized: Smbat II Master of the Universe) reigned as King of Armenia from 977 to 989. He was of the Bagratuni...

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...

of walls, the much taller inner wall studded by numerous large and closely spaced semicircular towers. Contemporary chroniclers wrote that King Smbat (977–989)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

identified by Toumanoff, Smbat I, lived at the time of the Armenian conversion to Christianity (c. 314). Starting with Smbat, the Bagratunis held the...

Jerusalem and the Frankish East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle The Barony of Cilician Armenia (Kurkjian's History...

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...

(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...

troops seized and despoiled the weak Roman forces and then let them go. — Smbat Sparapet: Chronicle Emperor Manuel I Comnenus persuaded the Seljuk sultan...

Armenia Sahak II Bagratuni Armenia Shahraplakan Armenia Shapur Mihran Armenia Smbat IV Bagratuni Armenia Tamkhosrau Armenia Tan-Shapur Armenia Varaz Vzur Armenia...

History page on Cilician history[permanent dead link] The Barony of Cilician Armenia (Kurkjian's History of Armenia, Ch. 27) Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

Amenaprkich [Wikidata] ("Holy Savior"). Their sons Kiurike (Gurgen) and Smbat, founded a congregation, a high school, invited clergymen, scholars, and...

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...

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...

of its golden era during his reign and that of his sons and successors, Smbat II (977–89) and Gagik I (990–1020). During the first year of his reign Ashot...

Ashot was succeeded by his son Smbat I (890–912) while Abu'l-Ward's three grandsons eventually assumed power. When Smbat I fell into difficulties early...

Justinian II appear before the walls of Constantinople. After three days, his troops discover an unused water conduit under the walls of the city, and enter through...

Muslim rulers. Around 888, Samshvilde was occupied by the Bagratid king Smbat I of Armenia, who entrusted the town to the charge of the two brothers of...