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  Leo V of Armenia - Biocrawler
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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 Leone - LoveToKnow 1911
Born probably at Granada of a noble Moorish stock (his father was a landowner; an uncle of his appears as an envoy from Fez to Timbuktu), he received a great part of his education at Fez, and while still very young began to travel widely in the Barbary States.
The Moor seems to have lived on Rome for some time longer, but he returned to Africa some time before his death at Tunis in 1552; according to some, he renounced his Christianity and returned to Islam; but the later part of his career is obscure.
It is stated, moreover, that Leo intended writing a history of the Mahommedan religion, an epitome of Mahommedan chronicles, and an account of his travels in Asia and Egypt.
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 Leo II of Armenia - Definition, explanation
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.
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.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/l/le/leo_ii_of_armenia.php   (851 words)

  
 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 said to have come from Agathangelus, are asserted to be the works of these and other well-known men.
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 RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF ARMENIA
Armenia proclaimed its independence from the USSR on 23 September 1991 and on 21 December that year became a member of the Community of Independent States (CIS).
Armenia's President Robert Kotcharian, was elected with 59.49% of the votes, on 29 March 1998.
Armenia, or the "Kingdom of Urartù" which flourished between the 9th and 7th centuries BC and referred to in the Bible as Ararat, a volcanic mass, the resting place of Noah's Ark, has been populated since the stone age.
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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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 Bohemund III - LoveToKnow 1911
Raymund married Alice, a daughter of the Armenian prince Rhupen (Rupin), brother of Leo of Armenia, and died in 1197, leaving behind him a son, Raymund Rhupen.
Bohemund, the younger brother of Raymund, had succeeded the last count of Tripoli in the possession of that county, 1187; and the problem which occupied the last years of Bohemund III.
Leo of Armenia was naturally the champion of his great-nephew, Raymund Rhupen; indeed he had already claimed Antioch in his own right, before the marriage of his niece to Raymund, in 119 4, when he had captured Bohemund III.
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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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 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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 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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 Leo VI of Armenia - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Leo (or Leon) VI of Armenia (1342-1393) ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1374 to 1393.
Constantine V, in order to wipe out all claimants to the throne, had given orders to kill Leo and his brother Bemon, but they escaped to Cyprus before the murder could be carried out.
Leo came to the throne on the death of his distant cousin Constantine VI of Armenia.
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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.
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.
Bohemund V was the son of Bohemund IV of Antioch and Plaisance of Gibelet.
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 Fictionwise eBooks: Shards of Empire by Susan Shwartz
Leo's father had protested that he had always found his son an apt pupil, but Psellus, friend to patriarchs, proedrus of the Senate, and intimate of Leo's entire family, was very much heeded.
Leo was a good enough theologian to see the fallacy in that line of reasoning, but Ducas enough not to relish anyone pointing it out.
Never mind that he, like Leo and the rest of the army down to the laziest servant, had fasted before Mass and while the Cross was paraded through the camp, and it had been mid-day since they left the camp.
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 ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
In 1216 Leo finally managed to install Raymond Roupen as prince of Antioch, ending the military aspect of the struggle between Tripoli and Lesser Armenia, but the citizens revolted against Raymond Roupen in 1219 and Bohemond of Tripoli was at last recognized as the fourth prince of that name.
In 1254 the quarrel between Antioch and Lesser Armenia was at length put to rest with the marriage of Bohemond VI and Sibylla, daughter of Hethoum I of Lesser Armenia.
By this time Lesser Armenia’s star was rising and in a reversal of the earlier relationship, Bohemond VI allowed himself to become a vassal of the Armenian kingdom.
www.the-orb.net /textbooks/crusade/antioch.html   (2650 words)

  
 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.
The new king was a distant cousin, Constantine V of Armenia, who died of natural causes in 1362.
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 The Genealogy of the Kings and Queens of Armenia
The descendants of Isabelle (Zabel), Princess of Armenia
He was a brother of Peter I. In 1393 Leo VI died living no heir and the title revolved on James I. James I was proclaimed King of Armenia in 1396 in the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Nicosia and passed on the title to his successors.
This was captured by the Moslems in 1458 and the crown of Armenia became only a nominal title and ended with the fall of the Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus in 1489.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~heicke/MEDIEVAL/armenia.htm   (992 words)

  
 Victoria Bugayova ID: 3140 - Leo - Astrology topic Childrens
Leo children must always be right, even when they are in the wrong.
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.
Leo children cannot be allowed to control and dominate everyone for the purposes of their own ego!
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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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 Geometry.Net - Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Leo Tolstoy is one of Russia s greatest authors.
Leo Tolstoy is one of Russia's greatest authors.
Count leo tolstoy was baptized Orthodox intoa life of privilege and wealth in Czarist Russia in 1828.
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 Leo V of Armenia
Leo V of Armenia is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Constantine IV of Armenia (died 1344) was the first Latin king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1342 to 1344.
Leo V of Armenia (died 1341) 1309 - Deaths.
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  Britannicaindia.com: Britannica Browse
Roman emperor of the East, grandson of Leo I, and son of Zeno.
Elected while a priest to succeed Pope Benedict IV, Leo assumed the pontificate in a dark period of papal...
Leo was probably a Benedictine monk when he succeeded John XI, who had been imprisoned by Duke Alberic II of...
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A former republic of the Soviet Union, Armenia is a unitary, multiparty, democratic nation-state and one of the oldest and most historic civilizations in the world with a rich cultural heritage, as well as the first nation to adopt Christianity as its official religion.
In 1920, Armenia and Turkey engaged in the Turkish-Armenian War, a violent conflict that ended with the Treaty of Alexandropol in which the Armenians surrendered the bulk of their weapons and land to the Turks.
Armenia is interested in cooperating with other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, a group of 11 former Soviet republics) and with members of the international community on environmental issues.
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 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.
On the occasion of the crowning of King Leo II, the union of the union of the Armenian Church with Rome was proclaimed under Catholicos Gregory VI.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/armenia.html   (4367 words)

  
 ARMENIANS (September 8, 1987)
Armenia is one of the fifteen constituent republics of the USSR.
Armenia was located near the cradles of ancient civilizations--the Mesopotamian, bordering immediately to the south; the Egyptian in the southwest; and the Indus to the east--and was affected by each, but most significantly by Mesopotamian.
This last Armenian kingdom fell in 1375; and the last Armenian king, Leo [Levon] V (VI), died in exile (1393) in France and is buried in the abbey church of Saint Denis, next to the tombs of the French kings to whom he was related.
www.umd.umich.edu /dept/armenian/papazian/armenia.html   (5610 words)

  
 Leo (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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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 Roman Emperors - DIR Constantine V Copronymus
Constantine V is one of the most notorious Byzantine emperors, but also one of the most intriguing.
He was born in 718 to the emperor Leo III (717-741) and his wife Maria, and christened on Christmas Day of the same year in Hagia Sophia.
Beyond this political marriage Leo raised Constantine's profile in other ways: he involved him in his military campaigns (Constantine was present at the battle of Akroinos in 740: Theophanes AM 6231) and in his legal work (Constantine features in the title of the Ecloga, which has been dated to 741: Burgmann 1983).
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 Cyprus History: Lusignan Period - The Reign of Hugues IV
The native dynasty of Armenia, which was founded by Leo I at about the same time as the Lusignan dynasty in Cyprus, had maintained a precarious existence by alternate alliances with Rome and Constantinople.
Leo IV, the last of the native dynasty, succeeded his father, Oissim, in 1320 and by the intervention of the Pope made peace with the Lusignans, who sent him military aid against the Sultan of Egypt.
The whole reign of Leo IV was a continual struggle with the Muslims who were pressing him on every side, until his territory was eventually reduced to a few mountain fortresses.
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 Leo | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
The word Leo is the Latin word for Lion.
Leo Wyatt, fictional character on the Charmed television series.Leo Leonardo, a main character in the VG Cats webcomic.
Leo (That '70s Show)Leo, a henchmen in the James Bond film Casino RoyaleLeo, a main character in the Capcom fighting game Warzard.
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 The Armenian Impact on Byzantium - A Passage From History - Armenia Diaspora Conference Official Site
Armenia, as we have seen, was a society dominated by a class of warrior nobility.
In addition, there were a number of isolated emperors of Armenian origin: Bardanes (Vardan, 711-713), Artabazdes (Artavazd, 742-743), Leo V "the Armenian" (813-820), and John Tzimiskes (969-976), who, though an emperor, was one of the greatest Byzantine military commanders as well.
Not all the immigration was voluntary, as we have seen, and the Byzantine government often forcibly transferred Armenians from Armenia to various parts of the empire.
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