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    Gagik I Artsruni (Armenian: Գագիկ Ա Արծրունի; 879/880 – 943) was an Armenian noble of the Artsruni dynasty who ruled over Vaspurakan in southern Armenia...
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  • Armenia of the Bagratuni dynasty (989–1020) Gagik I of Vaspurakan, Artsruni ruler of Vaspurakan (908–943) Gagik II of Armenia, the last Armenian King of...
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    In 885, Ashot I Bagratuni received recognition as King of Armenia. In 908, during the reign of Ashot's successor Smbat I, Gagik I Artsruni was recognized...
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    the Artsrunis, who, in 908, received their investiture from their Abbasid suzerains. Thus, Khatcḥik-Gagik II Artsruni was the first of the Artsrunis to...
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  • Gagik Abumrvan Artsruni (or Abu Marwan) was an Armenian prince of the Artsruni line. In 887 he was installed as regent of Vaspurakan and guardian of the...
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  • common Armenian surname and may refer to: Gagik Artsruni or Gagik I of Vaspurakan (c. 879 – c. 936/943), Artsruni ruler of Vaspurakan in southern Armenia...
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    Gagik I (Armenian: Գագիկ Ա) was the king of Armenia who reigned between 989 and 1020, under whom Bagratid Armenia reached its height and enjoyed a period...
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    Bagratid king, Gagik II. The Armenian chronicler Kirakos Gandzaketsi speaks of the Rubenids as "the sons and descendants of Gagik Artsruni". Another Armenian...
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    father of Grigoris I Aghtamartsi. Smbat was descended from the Sefedin family, thus he was considered from the royal family of Gagik Artsruni. Following the...
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    relative of the Artsruni king of Vaspurakan, Gagik I, and wrote a detailed account in History about the famous palace and church Gagik constructed on Akhtamar...
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    towers carefully integrated into the ascending rock outcrop. When King Gagik I Artsruni reoccupied the fortress ca.922 A.D. it became the seat of a bishop...
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    since become the official name of the island. During his reign, King Gagik I Artsruni (r. 908-943/944) of the Armenian Kingdom of Vaspurakan chose the island...
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    death or servitude at the hands of those who had assassinated his relative, Gagik II, King of Ani, an Armenian named Roupen with some of his countrymen went...
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    the seat of the Catholicosate of Aghtamar. During his reign, King Gagik I Artsruni (r. 908–943/944) of the Armenian kingdom of Vaspurakan chose the island...
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  • drove Gagik Artsruni of Vaspurakan into Yusuf's arms since the city was a part of Gagik's domains. Yusuf took advantage of this feud by awarding Gagik a crown...
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    kingdom of Armenia, to the south, had the same military power as Georgia. Gagik I reigned over the Armenian kingdom since 989. Armenian and foreign chronicles...
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    Grigor-Derenik Artsruni in 887, Ashot placed his own grandson (and Grigor-Derenik's son), Ashot-Sargis Artsruni, under the rule of relative Gagik Aboumerwan...
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    kingdom with Gagik Artsruni's recognition as a king by Abbasid caliph. Gagik Artsruni, 908–937/943 Derenik-Ashot Artsruni, 937/943–953, son of Gagik Abusahl-Hamazasp...
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  • Derenik-Ashot of Vaspurakan (category Artsruni dynasty)
    Artsruni (Armenian: Դերենիկ-Աշոտ Արծրունի, died 958/959) was the second King of Vaspurakan, from the Artsruni dynasty, succeeding his father, Gagik I...
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    Vaspurakan Grigor-Derenik Artsruni Ashot, Gurgen, Gagik Mariam princess of Syunik Vasak Syuni Grigor, Sahak, Vasak daughter princess Vahan Artsruni Gagik...
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  • Balkan Wars. The legal justification for the seizures was the law of Emval-i Metruke (Law of Abandoned Properties), which legalized the confiscation of...
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    city called Pizu. Gagik's son David was imprisoned then poisoned by his father-in-law, Ablgharib Artsruni, for suspected treachery. Gagik tried in vain to...
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    drove Gagik Artsruni of Vaspurakan into Yusuf's arms since the city was a part of Gagik's domains. Yusuf took advantage of this feud by awarding Gagik a crown...
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    (now in the Van Province of Turkey). It was founded by King Gagik I (908-943) of the Artsruni dynasty. It is located 12 kilometers west-northwest of Akhtamar...
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  • threshold were reconstructed. In the 10th century, the Armenian king Gagik I Artsruni entrusted the architect Manuel to build the Saint Cross of Akhtamar...
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    (b. 826) Gagik Apumrvan Artsruni, Armenian prince Hsiang-yen Chih-hsien, Chinese Ch'an master Luo Hongxin, Chinese warlord (b. 836) Mashdotz I, Armenian...
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    CITEREFAčaṙean1971 (help) p. 107, "The Pantheon of Armenian Pagan Deities", Gagik Artsruni, Yerevan, 2003 Acharian, Hrachia (1971) [Originally published 1926]...
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  • Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi, Tovma Artsruni) refer to the province more frequently, especially after the emergence of the Artsruni-ruled principality in Vaspurakan...
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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...
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  • Abusahl-Hamazasp of Vaspurakan (category Artsruni dynasty)
    Abusahl-Hamazasp Artsruni (Armenian: Աբուսահլ-Համազասպ Արծրունի, died 968/969) was the third King of Vaspurakan, from the Artsruni dynasty, succeeding...
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