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...

dynasty, and son of Ashot I. He is the father of Ashot II (known as Ashot Yerkat) and Abas I. Smbat I was crowned king in 892 in Shirakavan (Yerazgavors)...

Ashot II the Iron (Armenian: Աշոտ Բ; r. 914–929) was king of the Bagratid kingdom of Armenia from 914 to 929. He was the son and successor of King Smbat I...

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...

established under the Siuni prince Smbat Sahak in 970. Smbat I Sahak, 970–998 Vasak, 998–1019, son of Smbat I Smbat II, 1019–1044, cousin and nephew of...

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...

through his vassal nobleman Tancregul, Smbat helped the king David Narin to escape from the Mongol captivity). Smbat II himself managed to prove in the Mongol...

Byzantine emperor Basil II (r. 976–1025) won a string of victories and annexed parts of southwestern Armenia; King Hovhannes-Smbat felt forced to cede his...

and it required another expedition by Smbat in the next year to finally end the rebellion. In 600, Khosrow II executed Al-Nu'man III, King of the Lakhmids...

Steven. A History of the Crusades – Volume II.: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East: 1100–1187. Smbat Sparapet (Sempad the Constable) (2005)....

successors of Basil II. By the death of Hovhannes-Smbat around 1040 and that of Ashot IV shortly after, Michael V, one of the successors of Basil II, was the emperor...

928/929–953, son of Smbat I (see Bagratuni dynasty) and father of Mouchel, first king of Kars Ashot III (son of Abas I) 953–977 Smbat II (son of Ashot III)...

Kiurikian dynasty was king Kiurike I (also known as Gurgen I). In 979 King Smbat II of Armenia granted the province of Tashir to his brother Kiurike with the...

Tigranes II, more commonly known as Tigranes the Great (Tigran Mets in Armenian; 140–55 BC), was a king of Armenia. A member of the Artaxiad dynasty, he...

service. — Smbat Sparapet: Chronicle Thoros, weary after nearly quarter of a century of rule and warfare, abdicated in favor of his young son Roupen II, who...

prosperity. It is unknown when Gagik I was born. He succeeded his brother Smbat II in 989. He followed the footsteps of his predecessors in building churches...

of his sons: Bagrat II, who received Taron and Sasun along with the new title "Prince of Princes" (ishkhan ishkhanats), and Smbat "the Confessor", who...

Leo II or Leon II (occasionally numbered Leo III; Armenian: Լէոն Բ, Levon II; c. 1236 – 1289) was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from...

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...

Sarduri II (ruled: 764–735 BC) was a King of Urartu, succeeding his father Argishti I to the throne. The Urartian Kingdom was at its peak during his reign...

Smbat (Armenian: Սմբատ; 1277 – c. 1310) was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1296 to 1298. He was the son of Leo II of Armenia and...

them since 387. Tirots, one of the ancestors of Smbat III, allied with Armenian marzbane. Sahak II and Smbat IV were marzbans of Armenia. The rulers of the...

time, Cynane, Alexander's half-sister, arranged for her daughter, Eurydice II, to marry the joint king, Arridaeus (Philip III). Fearful of Cynane's influence...

also participated in the campaign of his brother King Smbat II against the King of Abkhazia Bagrat II (who later ruled Georgia as Bagrat III), in defense...

Turadatis and in Latin as Tiridates. Tiridates III was the son of Khosrov II of Armenia, the latter being assassinated in 252 by a Parthian agent named...

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Greeks, Crusaders and Moslems — Rise of Leon II (Kurkjian's History of Armenia, Ch. 28) Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle...

Artavasdes II (Ancient Greek: Ἀρταουάσδης Artaouásdēs), also known as Artavazd II, was king of Armenia from 55 BC to 34 BC. A member of the Artaxiad dynasty...

of Smbat VIII the Confessor and was a member of the Bagratuni dynasty. Ashot was born around 820 to Smbat VIII Bagratuni and his wife Hripsime. Smbat VIII...

capital from Kars to Ani. Ani expanded rapidly during the reign of King Smbat II (977–89). In 992 the Armenian Catholicosate moved its seat to Ani. In the...

the Bagratid (Bagratuni) royal dynasty. He was the son of Smbat I and the brother of Ashot II the Iron, whom he succeeded. In contrast to the reign of...