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	Impressions of Ani
		Note: Ani, “City of 1,000 Churches,” was the capital of the Bagratid Dynasty in Medieval Armenia, and it was home to over 100,000 inhabitants.
		After viewing the magnificent Church of the Holy Apostles, we left Kars, which was once part of the Bagratid Kingdom, and departed for Ani.
		It was time to walk the steps of the Bagratid Kings, and of Marco Polo.
	www.road-to-armenia.com /articles/1996/ani.html (680 words)

	Bagrationi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As early as 288-301, the Bagratid prince Smbat held the hereditary Armenian titles of Master of the Horse and t'agatir, or coronant of the King.
		The eldest family is that of the Bagratids of Georgia (Russian: Princes Gruzinsky), descending from Erekle II, the last king of unified Georgia.
		I.L. Bichikashvili, D.V. Ninidze and A.N. Peikrishvili, The Genealogy of the Bagratides.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bagrationi (923 words)

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		Bagratid DYNASTY, princely and royal dynasty founded in Armenia and Georgia during the 9th century by the Bagratuni family.
		With the decline of the previously ruling Mamikonian dynasty, the Bagratids emerged as one of the most powerful noble families in Armenia.
		The Bagratids of Ani bore the title of shahanshah ("king of kings"), which was first conferred by the caliph in 922 upon Ashot II the Iron.
	www.armenians.com /famous/bagratuni.html (227 words)

	Jere's Ars Magica Saga: Geography: Georgia and the Colchis
		For the next three centuries, local authority was exercised by the magnates of each province, vassals successively of Iran, of Byzantium, and, after AD 654, of the Arab caliphs, who established an emirate in T'bilisi.
		Toward the end of the 9th century, the Bagratid Ashot I the Great settled at Artanuji in Tao (southwestern Georgia), receiving from the Byzantine emperor the title of kuropalates ("guardian of the palace").
		The zenith of Georgia's power and prestige was reached in the reign (1184-1213) of Queen Tamar, whose realm stretched from Azerbaijan to the borders of Cherkessia, from Erzurum to Ganja (G%onc%o), forming a pan-Caucasian empire, with Shirvan and Trabzon as vassals and allies.
	www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Labyrinth/2398/bginfo/geo/colchis.html (3134 words)

	Bagratids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As early as 288-301 A.D., the Bagratid prince Smbat held the hereditary Armenian titles of Master of the Horse and t'agatir, or coranant of the King.
		The Bagratids claimed descent from King David and King Solomon of the Hebrew Bible.
		The Bagratid family in Georgia began with the migration of one prince Ashot (780-826) from Armenia.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Bagratids.htm (616 words)

	WEB HISTORICAL FIGURES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 744 Ashot from the House of the Bagratids was appointed governor.
		Religious life flourished and Ani became known as the "city of one thousand and one churches." In the middle of the 11th century, most of Armenia had been annexed by Byzantium.
		Ashot III fourth Armenian king of the Bagratid Dynasty.
	schools.ascp.am /gyumri20/figures/AshotIII.htm (300 words)

	The House of Bagratuni - A Passage From History - Armenia Diaspora Conference Official Site
		Later, the Armenian Bagratids acquired the principality of Kogovit in central Armenia centered at the castle of Daruink', and the lands of Mokk' and Tmorik' in the extreme south of Armenia, the first centered at the town of Moks and the latter centered at the fortress of T'man.
		The Bagratids, whether in Armenia or Georgia, showed themselves to be great patrons of literature and the arts, producing or sponsoring distinguished historians, raising remarkable churches and other buildings, and founding monasteries that became famous centers of learning.
		In Armenia the Bagratids of Lori may be traced as the princes of Norberd, east of Lake Sevan, near where, in the eighteenth century, the meliks of Barsum claimed descent from them.
	www.armeniadiaspora.com /js/031215history.html (762 words)

	ARMENIAN HIGHLAND
		Early in the Xth century the residence of the Catholicos was moved to Coravank in the Vaspurakan Province of Greater Armenia.
		The city flourished again during the reign of the Bagratid King Gagik I (990-1020) who was able to eliminate the rival amirates.
		The Bagratid monarchs rebuilt the damaged sections of the city restoring it to the previous status of a thriving center, which it remained before the destruction by the nomadic invaders in the XIIIth century.
	www.armenianhighland.com /dvin/chronicle264.html (474 words)

	Turco-Mongol Footnotes I
		The Bagratid state, the most powerful of the several Armenian kingdoms which arose in the 9-l0th centuries, apparently remembered well not only the legendary glory of Armenia's ancient Arsacid kingdom, but also the more recent extensive unit of Armeniya, which had been named for Armenia, its most important part.
		During the peak of Bagratid power, under king Gagik I (990-1020), that family controlled in addition to Iberia, an extensive state stretching from Basen district in the west, to near Partaw/Barda'a in Caucasian Aghbania in the east, south to Manazkert and north to Shamk'or city.
		In 1021 the Byzantine emperor Basil II invaded the north and annexed the districts of Tayk'/Tao, Kola/Kogh, Artani/Artahan and Javaxet'i/Jawaxk'.
	rbedrosian.com /Dft114t138.htm (2648 words)

	Armenia Diaspora Conference Official Site
		The importance of Horomos increased greatly after 961, when the capital of the Bagratid kingdom was moved to Ani.
		The Bagratid kings turned the monastery into a royal burial ground.
		In 982, it was sacked and burned by Muslim invaders, but was soon restored and enlarged under the later Bagratid kings who built new chapels and churches.
	www.armeniadiaspora.com /js/030828horomos.html (634 words)

	KARS
		St. Arak'eloc cathedral of Kars is situated at the base of the ancient citadel of the city of Kars.
		This is quite reasonable, since the early Bagratid kings did not have a permanent capital.
		They converted the center of their own realm or the town where they resided before their coronation into the capital of the country.
	armenianstudies.csufresno.edu /iaa_architecture/kars.htm (1522 words)

	Lori Berd - Armeniapedia.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the western settlement of Lori-Berd near Stepanavan, Armenia, surrounded with wonderful mountain landscapes is found the ruins of one of feudal Armenia's capitals - Lori-Berd.
		David Anhoghin of Kyurikid's branch of Ani's Bagratid dynasty- founded Lori-Berd as an inaccessible fortress town in the Gugark region of northern Armenia in 989-1048, and moved the Tashir-Dzoragetian kingdom capital here from Samshvilde.
		The investigations of extensive remains in the territory of the town showed that the choice of the place for foundation and the dislocation of its compound parts were made like the capital of the Bagratid's kingdom- Ani.
	armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Lori_Berd (1282 words)

	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1468 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		David of Ossetia BAGRATID married Tamar I of GEORGIA on 1193.
		She married David of Ossetia BAGRATID on 1193.
		Boris of ROSTOV [Parents] was born 24 Jul 1231.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg1468.htm (184 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bagrationi
		Ashot, son of Hovhannes (son of Gagik II) was later governor of Ani under the Shaddadid dynasty Armenian Cilicia and Crusader States Cilicia The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (sometimes referred to as Armenia Minor or Lesser Armenia) was a state formed in the Middle Ages by Armenian refugees fleeing the Seljuk invasion of Armenia.
		Imereti is a historic province in Western Georgia, situated along the middle and upper reaches of the Rioni river.
		Descent from antiquity is an ultimate challenge in prosopography and genealogy, the idea of establishing a well-researched, generation by generation descent of living persons from people acting in antiquity.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bagrationi (2061 words)

	Georgia - HISTORY
		Archeological evidence indicates a neolithic culture in the area of modern Georgia as early as the fifth millennium B.C. Between that time and the modern era, a number of ethnic groups invaded or migrated into the region, merging with numerous indigenous tribes to form the ethnic base of the modern Georgian people.
		Ashot's reign began a period of nearly 1,000 years during which the Bagratids, as the house was known, ruled at least part of what is now Georgia.
		In 1801 Tsar Alexander I summarily abolished the kingdom of Kartli-Kakhetia, and the heir to the Bagratid throne was forced to abdicate.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/georgia/HISTORY.html (4772 words)

	Armenian Architecture - VirtualANI - a history of the city: part one
		The two most powerful Armenian kingdoms were those of the Artzruni dynasty, who were based around Lake Van, and the Bagratid dynasty, who ruled most of north-eastern Armenia and who would eventually have their capital at Ani.
		The Bagratids bought the castle of Ani and its nearby estates from the Kamsarakans, and in the year 971 the Bagratid king Ashot III transferred his capital from Kars to Ani.
		In 1072 the Turks sold Ani to the Kurdish Shaddadid dynasty, who maintained a precarious hold of Ani until the end of the 12th century (loosing it several times to the Georgians or to internal rebellions by the city's still almost exclusively Armenian population).
	www.virtualani.freeserve.co.uk /history/part1.htm (1194 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ani (Armenia)
		When it was handed over to the Byzantines in 1045, it was a populous city, known traditionally as the "city with the 1001 churches." It was then occupied by the Seljuk Turks in 1064, getting under Turkmen sovereignty later.
		It was slowly abandoned after the 14th century, being dominated by the Ottoman Empire and Turkey after 1534.
		Events Byzantine Empire recaptures Crete from Muslim control Ani made the capital of Armenia by the Bagratid dynasty Haakon_I_of_Norway squashed the rebelling forces of Eric Bloodaxes sons but was killed in the Battle of Fitje.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ani-%28Armenia%29 (1076 words)

	Kars, Turkey-Adiyamanli.org
		Ani, east of Kars city and near the Armenian frontier, was the Bagratid capital in the 10th century.
		Situated along a major east-west caravan route, Ani first rose to prominence in the 5th century AD and had become a flourishing town by the time Ashot III the Merciful (reigned 952-977), the Bagratid king of Armenia, transferred his capital there from Kars in 961.
		Thus began a golden age for the city, which was beautified under two subsequent Bagratid rulers.
	www.adiyamanli.org /kars.html (841 words)

	T.C. Kultur Bakanligi / Ministry of Culture, Republic of Turkey
		However, the Bagratid Kingdom, which was also recognised by the Byzantine Empire, did not receive recognition from the Artzruni, a prominent local families.
		The latter captured territory from the Rshtuni to the south of Lake Van and settled in the region; in a short space of time they had expanded as far as Lake Urmia in the east, Ararat in the north and the Zap river in the south, in other words, all the lands of Vaspurakan.
		The dispute between the Artzruni and the Bagratid was used by Yusuf, the Arab Emir of Azerbaidjan, to favour the Artzruni, the reason being that relations between Yusuf and King Smbat (who had acceded the Bagratid throne after Ashot I) were strained.
	www.discoverturkey.com /english/yeni/van/middle_ages.html (1681 words)

	DVIN
		In the 9th and 10th centuries it was caught up in the conflicts between the Armenian Bagratids (q.v.) and Arab amirs (for detailed references on the early Islamic period, see Canard); no ruler was able to dominate there for long.
		The city flourished again during the period when the Bagratid king Gagik I (990-1020) was semi-independent in Armenia and able to eliminate the rival amirates.
		Garsoïan as The Arab Emirates in Bagratid Armenia, Lisbon, 1976.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v7/v7f6/v7f649.html (2083 words)

	Travel Guide To Turkey, Travel, turkey, GUIDE MARTINE,Turkey, Guide, Guide Martine, istanbul, Martine, turkey photos, ...
		Ani, the ancient capital of the Bagratids, is located on a plateau near the gorges of the Arpa Çayı, whose course has delimited the border between Armenia and Turkey.
		The Armenian people who, at the time, was a prey to civil wars, had to split into two kingdoms: the Southern Kingdom in the region of Van, and the Northern Kingdom in the hands of the Bagratids.
		Ani was founded by Ashot Msaker (806-827) who was a prince of the Bagratid family, but it was made the Bagratid capital by Ashot III only in 961.
	www.guide-martine.com /easternanatolia.asp (1401 words)

	II. The Arabs in Armenia and Mesopotamia
		Idem: Les Arabes au Caucase: Les rélations des rois Bagratides d'Arménie avec le califat 'Abbaside de Bagdad (de 884 à 1055) in: Settimana...
		Later, in the Bagratid period, they accepted the the king as a sovereign.
		Gérard DÉDÉYAN: Les Arabes au Caucase: Les rélations des rois Bagratides d´Arménie avec le califat Abbaside de Bagdad (de 884 à 1055) in: Settimana, Spoleto, 1996, pp.
	www.geocities.com /ritahorvath/CAP2.html (1175 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Ani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Bagratids, according to tradition, traced their ancestry back to David and Bathsheba and called the Virgin Mary their cousin.
		One of the first kings in the Bagratid line, King Ashot the Meateater, bought Ani for Armenia in the first half of the ninth century.
		From the sudden increase in income the Bagratids were able, during the reigns of only three kings, to turn a simple fortress into a splendid royal residence and a small village into the capital of a kingdom.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/196705/ani.htm (1533 words)

	The Abkhazians in history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		With the rise of Islam in the 7th century, the fall of Sassanid Persia and the weakening of Byzantium, Abkhazia was formed as a principality that came to affiliate with the Khazar Khanate from around 800 A.D. as its prince married a Khazar princess.
		In the 10th century, Abkhazia became part of the Georgian state of the time (the Bagratid dynasty), during a period of anarchy between vassal princes and nobility.
		Bagratid rule in Abkhazia was replaced by a feudal principality under Ottoman sovereignty.
	www.kapba.de /ShortHistory.html (365 words)

	History of Georgia
		The Bagratids had originated in the borderlands between Georgia and Armenia.
		In 1762 Erekle II of the Bagratids reunited the eastern Georgian regions of Kartli and Kakheti, forming a new Georgian kingdom that covered much of present-day Georgia.
		In 1801 Russia deposed the Bagratid king and annexed the eastern Georgian kingdom to the Russian Empire.
	www.osgf.ge /all/ika/history_of_georgia.htm (1886 words)

	The Treatment of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Historical Summary
		From the national point of view it was almost as barren as the century of satrapial independence which preceded the reign of Tigranes, and in the politics of this period parochialism was never transcended.
		Bagratids and Ardrzounids were bitter rivals for the leadership of the nation, and did not scruple to call in Moslem allies against one another in their constant wars.
		It is true that a vestige of independence was preserved, for Roupen the Bagratid, conducted a portion of his people south-westward into the mountains of Cilicia, where they were out of the main current of Turkish invasion, and founded a new principality which survived nearly three hundred years (1080-1375).
	www.hri.org /docs/bryce/bryce2.htm (18911 words)

	NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies
		With the rise of Islam in the 7th c., the fall of Sassanid Persia and the the weakening of Byzantium, Abkhazia was formed as a principality that came to affiliate with the Khazar Khanate from around 800 A.D. as its prince married a Khazar princess.
		In the 10th c., Abkhazia became part of the Georgian state of the time (the Bagratid dynasty), during a period of anarchy between vassal princes and nobility.
		Bagratid rule in Abkhazia was replaced by a feudal principality under Ottoman suzerainty.
	www.nupi.no /cgi-win/Russland/etnisk_b.exe?Abkhazian (766 words)

	International Journal of Kurdish Studies: Diplomacy gone to seed: a history of Byzantine foreign relations, A.D. 1047-57
		In 1022, the Bagratid ruler of Ani, John-Smbat, had named the Byzantine emperor as heir to his kingdom that consisted of Ani and the province of Shirak; in return, he was appointed magistros and named archon or "governor" of Ani and Great Armenia.
		When John-Smbat died childless in 1041, the Byzantines had claimed Ani as its inheritance and found powerful supporters in the Catholicus Peter Getadartz and Sarkis, a prince of the rival Siwni dynasty and the chief palace administrator for John-Smbat.
		According to the Georgian Chronicles, he entrenched himself in a fortress and occupied nine castle belonging to the kingdom of Ani; an important exception was Amberd or Anberd.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SBL/is_18/ai_n13826854/pg_5 (1394 words)

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