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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Gagik (in Western Armenian Kakig) is a common Armenian name. It may refer to: Royalty / Nobility Gagik I of Armenia, Bagratid king of Armenia of the Bagratuni...
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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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advantage of this feud by awarding Gagik a crown in 908, thus making him King Gagik I of Vaspurakan and creating an Armenian state opposed to the one led by...
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Armenia. 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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Gagik II (Armenian: Գագիկ Բ; c. 1025 - May 5/November 24, 1079) was the last Armenian king of the Bagratuni dynasty, ruling in Ani from 1042 to 1045....
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advantage of this feud by awarding Gagik a crown in 908, thus making him King Gagik I of Vaspurakan and creating an Armenian state opposed to the one led by...
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II (son of Ashot III) 977–989 Gagik I of Armenia (brother of Smbat II) 989–1020 Hovhannes-Smbat of Ani (son of Gagik I) 1020–1040/1041 Ashot IV Qadj (usurper)...
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9th century until 1045 when their capital city of Ani fell. In 1045, King Gagik II was invited to Constantinople; upon arrival there, he was taken captive...
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1017/1020–1040/1041 (in Ani), son of Gagik I Ashot IV "the Valiant", 1017/1020–1040/1041 (in Talin), son of Gagik I Gagik II, 1042–1045, son of Ashot IV The...
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(together with brother Gagik I). Son of king Varaz Trdat I and Sparama. In 694, the latter declared Vardan together with his brother Gagik rulers. In the same...
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harassing him from the north but were driven back. He avenged the death of King Gagik II by killing his assassins. This act of revenge was often used by chroniclers...
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According to another view, the Bagratuni kings Smbat II (r. 977–990) and Gagik I (r. 990–1020) are the ones buried there, although the historian Stepanos...
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Leo I (Armenian: Լևոն Ա), also Levon I or Leon I, (unknown[citation needed] – Constantinople, February 14, 1140[citation needed]) was the fifth lord of...
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Ani (redirect from King Gagik's church of St Gregory)
kings. Ani attained the peak of its power during the long reign of King Gagik I (989–1020). After his death his two sons quarreled over the succession...
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Hethum I (Armenian: Հեթում Ա; 1213 – 21 October 1270) ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (also known as "Little Armenia") from 1226 to 1270. He was...
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Hovhannes-Smbat III of Armenia (redirect from Hovhannes I of Ani)
Hovhannes-Smbat III was King of Ani (1020–1040). He succeeded his father Gagik I of Ani (989–1020) being the king's elder son and legal heir to the throne...
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(Armenian: Աշոտ Դ, died c. 1040–41), surnamed Kaj, i.e. "the Brave, the Valiant", was the younger son of King Gagik I of Armenia. When his eldest brother Hovhannes-Smbat...
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suzerains. Thus, Khatcḥik-Gagik II Artsruni was the first of the Artsrunis to rule Vaspurakan under Abbasid suzerainty. Gagik I of Vaspurakan claimed the...
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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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either a prince of King Gagik II, or some kind of a military commander in the monarch’s clan in exile. Upon the murder of King Gagik II, Constantine’s father...
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King of Vaspurakan, from the Artsruni dynasty, succeeding his father, Gagik I, on the latter's death. He died childless in 958/959 and was succeeded...
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Canute the Great codifies the laws of England (approximate date). King Gagik I of Armenia is succeeded by Hovhannes-Smbat III. Almodis de la Marche, French...
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Vonones I (ΟΝΩΝΗΣ Onōnēs on his coins) was an Arsacid prince, who ruled as King of Kings of Parthian Empire from 8 to 12, and subsequently as king of...
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hanragitaran hratarakč῾ut῾yun. p. 94. Movses Khorenatsʻi (1997). Sargsyan, Gagik (ed.). Hayotsʻ Patmutʻyun, E dar Հայոց Պատմություն, Ե Դար [History of Armenia...
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reign of Gagik I Bagratuni in the final decade of the tenth century. Stepanos Taronetsi referred to Zvartnots when describing the church that Gagik I had inaugurated...
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their mother (Appian writes that she gave birth to three sons), historian Gagik Sargsyan considered only Artavasdes II and one of the unnamed daughters...
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by King Gagik I, who confiscated all of his possessions; after this David was to become known as "Anhoghin" meaning "the Landless." David I was succeeded...
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brother Gagik I. Smbat Walls Nersessian, Sirarpie Der (1970). The Armenians. Praeger Publishers. p. 202. The two brothers , Gurgen ( Kiurike I ) on the...
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(approximate date) Fujiwara no Tadahira, Japanese statesman and regent (d. 949) Gagik I of Vaspurakan, Armenian king (approximate date) Hugh of Arles, king of...
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