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  Leo V of Armenia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Leo (also Leon or Levon) V of Armenia (1309-August 28, 1341) was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1320 to 1341.
In 1322, Pope John XXII intervened to enlist the aid of the Ilkhanate and Philip V of France on behalf of Armenia, and the kingdom obtained a fifteen-year truce with Sultan Al-Nasr Muhammad.
Leo was strongly pro-Western and favored a union of the Armenian and Roman Churches, which deeply displeased the native barons.
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 692. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
The invaders were finally repulsed by the strategos of the Anatolian theme, Leo, who forced the abdication of the emperor and was enthusiastically proclaimed by the clergy and populace of the capital.
LEO III (the Isaurican), founder of the Isaurican dynasty, an eminent general and a great organizer.
Leo used drastic measures to suppress revolts in the army and reestablished discipline by issuing new regulations.
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 Leo II of Armenia information - Search.com
Leo became "Lord of the Mountains" (ruler of Cilician Armenia) in 1187, his brother Ruben III of Armenia resigning the crown to him shortly before his death.
Leo is also said to have attended the wedding of Richard the Lionhearted in Cyprus as a groomsman in 1191.
Leo continued to appeal to the new Emperor, Henry VI, and to Pope Celestine III for a royal title.
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  Antioch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
1194) to Alice, a niece of Leo II of Lesser Armenia, a vassal to Antioch.
In 1194 Leo II tricked Bohemond III with the result that the Norman prince was captured by the Roupenians.
Leo attempted to capture the city but was repulsed by the city commune.
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 Leo I of Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leo I of Armenia (died February 14, 1140) was Lord of the Mountains 1129–1140.
Raymond of Antioch coveted Saravantikar, and in 1136 he seized Leo by treachery and held him for a ransom: 60,000 gold pieces, the promise of help against John II Comnenus, and the surrender of Saravantikar, Mamistra, and Adana.
Leo retreated into the Taurus Mountains with his second wife and their children, but Gaban and Vahka fell in 1138, and he was captured.
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 Leo V of Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the son of Oshin of Armenia and Isabel of Korikos, and came to the throne on the death of his father.
In 1322, Pope John XXII intervened to enlist the aid of the Ilkhanate and Philip V of France on behalf of Armenia, and the kingdom obtained a fifteen-year truce with Sultan Al-Nasr Muhammad.
Leo was strongly pro-Western and favored a union of the Armenian and Roman Churches, which deeply displeased the native barons.
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 Armenian Legends and Poems: Armenia: Its Epics, Folk-Songs, and Mediaeval Poetry: The Crusades
Leo died in 1219 after a reign of thirty-four years.
Leo V. (King of Armenia) asked for help from Europe, but the only assistance given was 10,000 florins sent by the King of France and a few sacks of corn from the Pope.
Leo V. died in 1341, and as he had no children the throne passed to the Lusignan dynasty.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Armenia
Although the name "Armenia" occurs twice in the Vulgate, the regular biblical designation of the country is "Ararat", a name which is doubtless identical with the "Urartu" of the cuneiform inscriptions.
Armenia is the name given to a mountainous strip of land situated in the southwestern portion of Asia.
Armenia" by the Catholicos John VI came forth, covering the period from the origin of the nation to the year A.D. A contemporary of his, Annine of Mok, an abbot and the most celebrated theologian of the
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 Leo III of Armenia
He was the son of Hethum I of Armenia and Isabella of Armenia.
In 1266 Leo was captured and his younger brother Thoros killed while fighting the Mamluk invaders.
Leo was ransomed by his father, who abdicated in his favour shortly after.
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 Leo VI of Armenia - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Leo (or Leon) VI of Armenia (1342-1393) ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1374 to 1393.
Leo came to the throne on the death of his distant cousin Constantine VI of Armenia.
Leo and his wife, Margaret of Soissons, were crowned at Sis on September 14, 1374.
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 Sempiternus Rex Christus
The Archimandrite Eutyches, however, was not confident of the patronage of the Roman pontiff So he craftily made use of his friend Chrysaphius, who was a favorite of the emperor, to persuade Theodosius II to take his part and to summon another council at Ephesus under the presidency of Dioscorus, bishop of Alexandria.
The first places in the council were denied to the apostolic delegates; the letters of the pope were not allowed to be read, the votes of the bishops were extorted by threats and stratagems; among others Flavian was accused of heresy, deprived of his pastoral ministry and thrown into prison, where he died.
As soon as St. Leo learnt from the deacon Hilary of the evil deeds of this council, he condemned and annulled all the decrees and decisions made by it.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bohemund IV of Antioch
Despite the fact that Raymond-Roupen was excluded from the succession, Bohemund IV lost the principality to his nephew, supported by Leo II of Armenia, between 1216 and 1219.
Leo II of Armenia, (Armenian: Levon II) known as The Magnificent (1150 – May 5, 1219) was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1187–1219.
Princes of Antioch Bohemund III of Antioch (1144-1201), also know as the Stammerer, was ruler of the principality of Antioch (a crusader state) from 1163 to his death.
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Leo
Leo (text editor), features outlines with clones as its central tool of organization and navigation.
Leo McGarry, White House Chief of Staff on NBC's television drama series The West Wing.
Leo Leonardo, a main character in the VG Cats webcomic.
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 Queen Isabella of Armenia - Definition, explanation
She was the daughter of Leo II of Armenia and Sybilla of Lusignan (daughter of Amalric I of Cyprus).
Leo named Isabella as his heir, despite the existence of his grandson (son of his eldest daughter Rita) and Raymond-Rupen (grandson of Rupen III of Armenia).
Hethum was co-ruler (or ruler) of Armenia from 1226 to 1270.
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 Oshin of Armenia Information
Oshin of Armenia (1282 – July 20, 1320) was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1307 to 1320.
His sister Isabella of Armenia had married Amalric of Tyre, and when Amalric usurped the government of Cyprus from his brother Henry II of Cyprus, Henry was held in Armenia by Oshin.
On his death on July 20, 1320, Oshin was succeeded by his minor son Leo V. Oshin was popularly believed to be poisoned by his cousin (and brother-in-law) Oshin of Corycos.
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 Armenia Heads
Her father, Leo II had promished his nephew Raimond-Ruben de Antiochiaia, the succession to the throne, but at his deathbed he named Zabel or Isabella, as his heir.
After Constantine IV of Armenia, the first Latin king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia was killed in an uprising in 1344 after two years in office, she was regent.
He was rumoured to have poisoned King Oshin and was probably responsible for the deaths of Leo's father, Oshin's sister Isabella of Armenia and two of her sons.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Council of Chalcedon
Pope Leo, Dioscurus, and a number of bishops and monks were invited to attend and investigate anew the orthodoxy of Eutyches.
Marcian at once informed Leo I of his willingness to call a new council according to the previous desire of the pope.
epistle of Pope Leo I; Juvenal of Jerusalem, Thalassius of
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The bickering did not however cease altogether, and one incident calls particularly for notice because it was the beginning of a dispute that was seriously to harass the Church in later years, and to be the occasion of the summoning of the strangest of all the General Councils, that which met at Constantinople in 553.
The pope, St. Leo, was to say that Eutyches went wrong from his lack of skill in these matters rather than from malice.[3] Newman notes[4] that the early writings of the party "display...
These last two quotations are from Leo's letter, of the same date, to the empress Pulcheria, joint ruler with Marcian, her husband.
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 Chapter Ecclesiastical Discord. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon
Language, the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind, soon discriminated the sectaries of the East, by a peculiar and perpetual badge, which abolished the means of intercourse and the hope of reconciliation.
Armenia and Abyssinia were infected by the speech or learning of the Greeks; and their Barbaric tongues, which have been revived in the studies of modern Europe, were unintelligible to the inhabitants of the Roman empire.
Yet the modern natives of Armenia and Abyssinia would be incapable of conversing with their ancestors; and the Christians of Egypt and Syria, who reject the religion, have adopted the language of the Arabians.
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 Victoria Bugayova ID: 3140 - Leo - Astrology topic Childrens
Whenever a Leo child is lectured for misbehaving, it must be phrased in such a way that they come out of the lecture with their pride uninjured.
Sometimes a Leo child can be so self-absorbed that they will be insensitive to other children around them, and indeed hurt their feelings without thinking.
Leo children cannot be allowed to control and dominate everyone for the purposes of their own ego!
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 Chapter Origin And Doctrine Of The Paulicians. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon
The remnant of the Gnostic sects, and especially the Manichæans of Armenia, were united under his standard; many Catholics were converted or seduced by his arguments; and he preached with success in the regions of Pontus and Cappadocia, which had long since imbibed the religion of Zoroaster.
The feeble Michael the First, the rigid Leo the Armenian, were foremost in the race of persecution; but the prize must doubtless be adjudged to the sanguinary devotion of Theodora, who restored the images to the Oriental church.
Her inquisitors explored the cities and mountains of the Lesser Asia, and the flatterers of the empress have affirmed that, in a short reign, one hundred thousand Paulicians were extirpated by the sword, the gibbet, or the flames.
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 Leo IV of Armenia - InformationBlast
Leo (or Leon) IV of Armenia (died 1307) was king of Armenia, ruling from 1301 to 1292, ruling along with his uncle Hethum II.
He was the son of Thoros III of Armenia.
In 1307 Leo and his co-ruler Hethum II were murdered while visiting the Mongol emir Bilarghu at Navarza.
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 St.Leon Armenian Church - Fair Lawn, New Jersey, United States
The governor of each of the two major regions of Armenia was assigned by the two supreme powers, the Byzantines in the western region and the Persians in the eastern region.
It was also the center of trade in Armenia, which served also as a passage for the trade caravans of the Persians and the Byzantines.
With the conversion of the Byzantine Empire to Christianity and the establishment of Christianity as the official religion of the empire and the army, Armenians, and Christians in general, under the Persian rule were viewed as a threat to the government.
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 ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN ARMENIA
Republic of Armenia is situated in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere and occupies the eastern part of the Armenian Plateau.
Republic of Armenia is a high­land country with all the Armenian Plateau characteristics.
APPENDIX E. Appropriate measures are being taken in the Republic of Armenia after the adoption of the new Constitution with a view to improving the system of State control.
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 Leo III of Armenia Information
He was the son of Hethum I of Armenia and Queen Isabella of Armenia.
In 1262 Leo married Keran (Kir Anna), the daughter of Prince Hethum of Lampron.
During twenty-one years of marriage Leo had fifteen children by his wife Keran, eight sons and seven daughters.
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 CD Baby: LEO DERDERIAN: My Old Armenia
A collection of Armenian tunes from the old Armenian villages in anatolian style and composition.With traditional middle eastern instruments this music is what the immigrants of Armenia brought with them to the new world.
Leo studied the violin then graduated to the oud at the age of thirteen.
Leo is versed in Armenian, Greek and Arabic idioms and has also performed at numerous belly dance shows.
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 The world's top leo iv of armenia websites
Leo (or Leon) IV of Armenia (died 1307) was king of Armenia, ruling from 1301 to 1292, ruling along with his uncle Hethum II.
He was married to his cousin Marie de Lusignan, daughter of Princess Isabella of Armenia and Amalric de Lusignan.
In 1307 Leo and his co-ruler Hethum II were murdered while visiting the Mongol emir Bilarghu at Navarza.
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 Goal.com - Group A Review: Serbia Supreme, Finland Foiled, Portugal Push
Finland were held to a goalless draw in Armenia that leaves the Finns fuming that their good start – a win over Poland and a draw against Felipão’s Portugal – was marred as their hosts held Litmanen’s lot to a goalless draw.
It was a duel of Brit bosses as Finland Coach Roy Hodgson faced Armenia tactician Ian Porterfield, but the latter had the last laugh as his solid side made sure that the 2004 0-2 World Cup qualifying defeat to Finland wasn’t repeated.
Leo Beenhakker's side had been poleaxed 1-3 by Finland in their debut match, but scraped a 1-1 draw against Serbia last matchday.
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 BOHEMUND III - Online Information article about BOHEMUND III
ARMENIA (old Persian Armina, Armenian Hayasdan, or Hayq)
Armenia, and died in 1197, leaving behind him a son, Raymund Rhupen.
king of Armenia by ' During the captivity of Bohemund III.
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 Leo Beenhakker | The Huffington Post   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Leo Beenhakker (born August 2, 1942 in Rotterdam) is an international Dutch football coach, currently the coach of the Polish national team.
The 26-year-old striker, scorer of half of Leo Beenhakker's side's six qualifying goals to date, will return to BV Borussia Dortmund and undergo tests on a rib injury.
Poland's coach Leo Beenhakker gestures during the Euro 2008, group A, qualifying match against Belgium at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels, Wednesday Nov. 15, 2006.
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 Astrology on the Web: Armenia's Stonehenge
Rick Ney, the author of this article, has been living and working in Armenia since 1992, in education, humanitarian aid and development.
Armenia, located in the Caucasian Mountains on the Black Sea between Russia and Turkey, contains some of the most significant cultural examples of sacred geometry, as well as other remarkable prehistoric structures, such as the "stonehenge" at Karahundj.
It should be no surprise to anyone who knows something of Armenia's history that astronomy is such an important part of the national character.
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