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    position, Gagik-Abas of Kars claimed the position of king of all of Armenia following Gagik's abdication. Twenty years later in 1065, Gagik-Abas also abdicated...
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    the ruler of Kars. In 1064, just after the capture of Ani by Alp Arslan (leader of the Seljuk Turks), the Armenian king of Kars, Gagik-Abas, paid homage...
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    renamed "Iberia and Ani" or "Iberia and Armenia". The Bagratid king of Kars, Gagik-Abas, still kept his throne even after 1064 when Ani fell to the Seljuk...
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    Mushegh, 961/962–984, son of Abas I of Armenia Abas I, 984–1029, son of Mushegh Gagik-Abas II, 1029–1065, son of Abas I; claimed the position of king...
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    Armenian architecture. As he did not have any male issue Smbat II succeeded by his brother Gagik I. Smbat Walls Nersessian, Sirarpie Der (1970). The Armenians...
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  • Hovhannes-Smbat and Ashot. The last king was Gagik II (1042–1045), son of Ashot. In 1079, Gagik II was killed. In 1080, Gagik of Kars and his sons, Hovhannes and David...
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  • Ashot learned of the conspiracy against him and sent Abas to disarm the ostikan in Dvin; Abas escorted him to the border under Ashot's orders in order...
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  • captured by Abas, who locked him up in the citadel of Kars. The Armenian Catholicos Gevorg II tried to negotiate his freedom by offering Abas two strategic...
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    Rodogune of Persia, daughter of King Artaxerxes of Persia, wife of Orontes II Antiochis, sister of Antiochus III the Great, wife of Xerxes Satenik of the...
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    passing through the Turkish states of eastern Asia Minor, the Mongol camp at Kars in Greater Armenia, the Iron Gates of Derbent at the western shore of the...
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    Gurgen's own father, and with the Armenian monarchs Smbat II of Armenia and Abas of Kars, in order to stop Bagrat's intervention. The first battle took...
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  • Federation of Armenia · Karbelian · Karin · Karin Yerevan · Karqayin · Kars · Kars Oblast · Kasagh River · Kasakh Ashtarak · Kashkak · Kavare Mer · Kaymaklı...
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  • moved to Cappadocia. He was followed in 1045 by King Gagik II of Ani and King Gagik-Abas of Kars (1064). The Byzantine policy of removing important lords...
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