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  Armenia - LoveToKnow 1911
Under the Medes and Persians Armenia was a satrapy governed by a member of the reigning family; and after the battle of Arbela, 331 B.C., it was ruled by Persian governors appointed by Alexander and his successors.
Armenia, although politically dependent upon Rome, was connected with Parthia by geographical position, a common language and faith, intermarriage and similarity of arms and dress.
After the death of Timur, Armenia formed part of the territories of the Turkoman dynasties of Akand Kara-Kuyunli, and under their milder rule the seat of the Catholicus, which, during the Seljuk invasion, had been moved first to Sivas, and then to Lesser Armenia, was re-established, 1441, at Echmiadzin.
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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.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Armenia
Armenia, the former embracing a portion of Asia Minor.
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
Armenia, to be held as a vassal government of the Holy See and of Germany.
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  Leo VI of Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leo (also Leon or Levon) 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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 ARMENIA - LoveToKnow Article on ARMENIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Armenia is now divided between ot rsia, Russia and Turkey, and the three boundaries have a In mmon point on Little Ararat.
Armenia, although politically pendent upon Rome, was corrnected with Parthia by ~ d ographical position, a common language and faith, ~ Lermarriage and similarity of arms and dress.
After the is~ ath of Timur, Armenia formed part of the territories of the pr.trkoman dynasties of Ak- and Kara-Kuyunli, and under their TI Taslon, had been moved first to Sivas, and then to Lesser menia, was re-established, 1441, at Echmiadzin.
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 Vi
Afonso VI of Portugal Afonso VI (House of Braganza.
Haakon VI of Norway 'Haakon VI Magnusson'\ (appr.
Louis VI the Roman Louis VI the Roman (Bavaria and from 1351 to 1365 margrave and Brandenburg.
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 Isabella of Armenia Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
She was the daughter of Leo II of Armenia and Sybilla of Lusignan (daughter of Aimery 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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 leo
Leo (the lion) is a constellation of the zodiac.
Leo lies between dim Cancer to the west and Virgo to the east.
In some cosmologies, Leo is associated with the classical element Fire, and thus called a Fire Sign (with Aries and Sagittarius).
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 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.
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 Leo VI of Armenia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Leo (or Leon) VI of Armenia (1342-1393) ruled the (Click link for more info and facts about Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia) Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1374 to 1393.
Leo came to the throne on the death of his distant cousin (Click link for more info and facts about Constantine VI of Armenia) Constantine VI of Armenia.
Leo and his wife, Margaret of Soissons, were crowned at (A female person who has the same parents as another person) Sis on September 14, 1374.
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 Armenia Heads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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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 New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. I: Aachen - Basilians | Christian Classics Ethereal Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Armenia is a country situated in western Asia between the Black and Caspian Seas and the Taurus and Caucasus Mountains.
Armenia has the glory of being the first land which made Christianity the religion of the country.
At the head of the army, Trdat and Gregory marched to the ancient capital Artaxata; the temple of Anahid and the oracle of Tiur with its school of priests were destroyed after a stout resistance, and all the temple property was given to the Christian churches.
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 leo vi
Leo VI the Wise was Byzantine emperor from 886-912.
Leo completed work on the Basilica, the Greek translation and update of the law code created by Justinian I, which had been started during the reign of Basil.
Leo paid them off, but they attacked again in 911, and a trade treaty was finally signed.
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 armenia
The Republic of Armenia is a landlocked country in southern Transcaucasia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, with Turkey to the west and Georgia to the north, and sharing borders with Azerbaijan in the east, and Iran and the Naxcivan exclave of Azerbaijan in the south.
Armenia was incorporated into Russian Empire in 1828 and the USSR in 1920.
The Government of Armenia's stated aim is to build a Western-style parliamentary democracy as the basis of its form of government.
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 The Armenians
Armenia was located near the cradles of ancient civilizations, Mesopotamia bordering immediately to the south, Egypt in the southwest, and the Indus river valley to the east.
The Bronze Age in Armenia began around 3200 B.C. and extended to and coexisted with the era of iron smelting and working which was inaugurated around 1000 B.C. Erevan (Erebuni, Arin-Berd), the capital of the Armenian SSR, was founded in 782 B.C. when it is first mentioned in historic sources.
Armenia alternately suffered or prospered depending on who held the caliphate (political and religious successor of Muhammad), which after 762 was in Baghdad, and the condition of public order.
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 Constantinople   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Leo reigned not at all as a puppet of the man to whom he owed his elevation.
Leo's son in law, the father of Leo II, was to be regent, during the boy's childhood.
Alexander was the younger brother of Leo VI and the third son of Basil.
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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.
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 Jean Dardel
Friar Minor of the French province of the order, chronicler of Armenia in the fourteenth century, adviser and confessor to King Leo V (or VI) of Armenia.
Arriving at Cairo he found the unhappy Leo, last King of Armenia (Cilicia), who after a nine-months siege in the fortress of Gaban was made prisoner by the Emir of Aleppo and brought to Jerusalem: and from there sent, together with his family, to Cairo (July, 1375).
Eventually King Leo entrusted him with his royal seal and letters of credence, and sent him as ambassador to King Peter IV of Aragon, and, failing success with him, to all the other kings of Christendom to obtain his freedom.
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 Caucasus: Armenia and Azerbaijan
In 1236, Armenia was occupied by the Mongols and as their empire declined, it was subject to raids by nomadic tribes, being overrun by Timurlane’s hordes in about 1400.
Armenia was not under Soviet rule at this point but it was by the end of the year and the disputed regions were recognised as part of the Armenian Socialist Republic.
The common border with Armenia was lost in a later reorganisation and although Karabakh was 94.4% Armenian in 1923 it was separated by Armenia by a 10km strip of land.
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 Constantine VII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos ("the Purple-born") (905 – November 9, 959) was the son of Byzantine emperor Leo VI and nephew of Alexander III.
He earned his nickname as the legitimate (or more accurately legitimized) son of Leo, as opposed to the others who claimed the throne during his lifetime.
It also provoked the Arabs to attack Byzantine land in Syria, Armenia, and Italy, but the land in the east was eventually recovered by John Tzimisces.
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 Encyclopedia: Leo VI of Armenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Constantine V of Armenia (died 1362) ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1344 to 1362.
Constantine VI of Armenia (died 1373) ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1362 to 1373.
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.
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 Popes & Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, etc.
the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Armenia, and the East; Archbishops of Canterbury and Prince Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, Cologne, and Salzburg
The Patriarchate of Armenia was thus regarded by the Roman Church as heterodox.
Leo X, the first of the Medici Popes, under whom the Protestant Reformation began, is supposed to have said, "God has given us the Papacy, so we might as well enjoy it." He dismissed Martin Luther as "some drunken German," but Luther's movement not only shook Francia, it shattered it.
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 Armenian Legends and Poems: Armenia: Its Epics, Folk-Songs, and Mediaeval Poetry: The Crusades
The common aim of all the Mohammedan governments was to destroy the independent kingdom of Armenia, because it was the only Christian state in Asia that was capable of rendering assistance to European sovereigns should any of them enter on a new Crusade in order to gain possession of the Holy Sepulchre.
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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 JERUSALEM
LEO I 1129-1139, THOROS II 1145-1168, RUPEN II 1168-1170, MLEH 1170-1175.
LEO II 1269-1289, HETHUM II 1289/1301, THOROS 1293-1294, SEMPAD 1296-1299, CONSTANTINE I 1299/1307, LEO III 1301-1307, OSHIN 1308-1320, LEO IV 1320-1341.
RUPEN ([1025/35]-[1095][46], bur Castalon).  An Armenian from Caucasian Armenia probably "of modest origin"[47].  Rupen's parentage is unknown, although Matthew of Edessa states that he was descended from Prince Kakhig[48].  Hethum the Historian says that he was a relative of Prince Kakhig
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 CHRISTIANCOINS.HTML   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
LEO, OR THE PHILOSOPHER, Byzantine coemperor with Alexander from 870 and emperor from 886 to 912, whose imperial laws, written in Greek, became the legal code of the Byzantine Empire.
Leo was the son of Basil I the Macedonian, who had begun the codification, and his second wife, Eudocia Ingerina.
During Leo's reign the Russian prince Oleg sailed to Constantinople and in 907 obtained a treaty regulating the position of Russian merchants in Byzantium, which was formally ratified in 911.
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 Science Fair Projects - Constantine VI of Armenia
He was the son of Hethum of Neghir, a nephew of Hethum I of Armenia.
Constantine came to the throne on the death of his cousin Constantine V of Armenia.
Constantine was the second husband of Marie of Armenia, daughter of Oshin of Corycos and Jeanne of Anjou.
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 Caucasus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lesser Armenia was between the Euphrates and the upper reaches of the Lycos, in Galatia and southern Pontus.
An entirely different Lesser Armenia, often called Armenia Minor, was in southern Anatolia around the province of Cilicia.
These rulers were essential district governors, and should be viewed alongside local nobility of the era, in Armenia (primarily Bagratunids and Mamikonians), and Azerbaijan (the Mihranids).
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 Searchable Papal Encyclicals
Pope Pius VI writes about the Civil Constitution of the Clergy which was approved by the National Assembly in France and which he said would lead the french people into error and schism.
Leo calls the bishops to be good pastors, decries religious indifferentism, and condemns the Bible Society for distributing indiscriminately its own translations of the Bible to the common people, without regard for the possibility of misinterpretation.
Leo extends the jubilee of 1825, with the accompanying indulgences.
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 ARMENIA (old Persian A... - Online Information article about ARMENIA (old Persian A...
Under the Medes and Persians Armenia was a satrapy governed by a member of the reigning family; and after the See also:
Armenia, although politically dependent upon Rome, was corrnected with Parthia by geographical position, a common language and faith, Under later intermarriage and similarity of arms and See also:
Armenia was invaded by the Persians in 1575, and again in 1604, when Shah Abbas transplanted many thousand Armenians from Julfa to his new capital See also:
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 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Quartus Supra (On The Church In Armenia)
Encyclical of Pope Pius IX Quartus Supra (On The Church In Armenia) promulgated on January 6, 1873.
Further more, as Our predecessor Pius VI warned in his Apostolic letter condemning the civil constitution of the clergy in France,[25] discipline is often closely related to doctrine and has a great influence in preserving its purity.
The Ottoman emperor, at the insistence of Leo XII and Pius VIII, and relying on the support of the Catholic rulers of Austria and France, recognized the distinction which exists between Catholics and heretics; therefore, he removed Catholics from the civil power of the latter, decreeing that Catholics should have their own head or prefect.
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