Zakarid Armenia Ca. 1200

Zakarid Armenia, the Zakarid-Mxargrzeli Princes, military commanders under the Georgian crown, were able to liberate parts of Greater Armenia from the Seljukid Turkish tyranny. The first decades of the thirteenth century in northeastern Armenia are known as the Zakarid period, after its most influential family. ^[1] The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (sometimes referred to as Armenia Minor) was a state formed in the Middle Ages by Armenian refugees fleeing the Seljuk invasion of Armenia. ...

History

The Seljuk Empire soon started to collapse. In the early 1100s, Armenian princes of the Zakarid noble family established, under the Georgian protectorate, a vast Armenian principality in Northern and Eastern Armenia, known as Zakarid Armenia. Their capital was in Ani, an ancient city of the Armenians which is now in Turkey. The noble family of Orbelians shared control with the Zakarids in various parts of the country, especially in Vayots Dzor and Syunik. Southern parts of Armenia remained under control of Kurdish dynasties of Shaddadids and Ayyubids. During the reign of the great queen Tamara of Georgia (1184-1212/3), the Zacharid-Mxargrzeli princes successfully commanded Georgian-Armenian armies against the Muslim rulers, but the Mongol invasion of Christian Caucasia put an end to this period of prosperity and the family gradually went in decline. The Seljuk Turks (Turkish: Selçuk; Arabic: سلجوق Saljūq, السلاجقة al-Salājiqa; Persian: سلجوقيان Saljūqiyān; also Seldjuk, Seldjuq, Seljuq) were a major branch of... For the abbreviation or acronym ANI, please see ANI. In Etruscan mythology, Ani was the sky god, perhaps equivalent to the Roman Janus. ... Vayots Dzor is one of the provinces (marz) of Armenia. ... Syunik (also called Siunik or Syunia) is one of the provinces (marz) of Armenia. ... Kurdish may refer to: The Kurdish people The Kurdish language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Shaddadids were a Kurdish dynasty, who ruled in various parts of Armenia, including Arran from 951-1174 or 1199 A.D. They were established Dvin. ... The Ayyubid Dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Egypt, Iraq in the 12th and 13th centuries. ...

The Zakarids-Mxargrzeli

• Sargis (1185-1191)
• Zakarē (1191-1212)
• Ivanē (1212-1227)

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