Paluni
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The House of Paluni was a dynastic house in Greater Armenia from the fourth to the sixth century AD.
The princes of Paluni occupied a remnant of the territorial dominion of the people of Lope or Puli, found in the Hittite annals, situated between Astyan and Taron, a domain that became named for them (the Balabitene occupied another remnant of that territory). The Paluni seem to have become part of the Mamikonian-ruled Taron, and then emigrated to Vaspurakan, which it named for itself. It disappeared soon after the start of the sixth century.[1]
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[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- ^ Toumanoff, Cyril (1961). "Introduction to Christian Caucasian History: II: States and Dynasties of the Formative Period]". Traditio. 17: 1–106. doi:10.1017/S0362152900008473. JSTOR 27830424. S2CID 151524770.
- René Grousset, Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071, Paris, Payot, 1947 (reimpr. 1973, 1984, 1995, 2008), 644 pages