Kingdom of Artsakh
The Kingdom of Arzach (Armenian for Nagorno Karabakh ) was a medieval Armenian state of the Bagratid dynasty, which existed from around 1000 to 1261 and included the principalities of Chatschen , Gardman and Gegharkunik . The exact status of Arzach within the Armenian kingdom has not yet been clarified. After the conquest by the Ilkhan in 1261, the kingdom lost its status as an independent kingdom, but Arzach remained an autonomous principality. As early as the 13th century, the rise of the Armenian principality of Chatschen began around the Gandsassar monastery, founded in 1216 in what is now Nagorno-Karabakh, and in its successor from the 15th century the five principalities of Karabakh as the last remnant of Armenian independence.
literature
- Bernhard Limper: The Mongols and the Christian peoples of the Caucasus. An investigation into the political history of the Caucasus in the 13th and early 14th centuries . Dissertation, Cologne 1980.
- Robert H. Hewsen: The Kingdom of Arc'ax. In: Thomas J. Samuelian, Michael E. Stone (eds.): Medieval Armenian Culture . (University of Pennsylvania Armenian Texts and Studies). Scholars Press, Chico / CA. 1984, ISBN 0-8913-0642-0 , pp. 42-68.
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert H. Hewsen: The Geography of Ananias of Širak. (Ašxarhac'oyc ') The long and the short recensions . Reichert, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-88226-485-3 ; P. 194.