Posted on 03/31/2021 10:42:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Bagratid Kingdom, also known as Bagratid Armenia, was founded by Ashot I Bagratuni of the Bagratuni dynasty around AD 880 following centuries of Abbasid rule.
The kingdom emerged as a buffer state between the Byzantine Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate, absorbing several Armenian principalities and the kingdoms of Taron, Vaspurakan, Kars, Khachen and Syunik.
The earliest description of Ani comes from the 5th-6th century Armenian chronicler Ghazar Parpetsi, who gives mention of a hilltop fortress constructed by the Kamsarakan House (one of the Seven Great Houses of Iran closely associated to the Arsacids)...
By the start of the 11th century, Ani had peaked with a population over 100,000 inhabitants, and became known as the "city of forty gates" and the "city of a thousand and one churches"...
Bagratid rule ended with the death of Hovhannes-Smbat III of Armenia, when in AD 1046 Ani was surrendered during a brief war of succession between the Byzantine Emperor Michael IV the Paphlagonian, and Gagik II King of Ani, resulting in the collapse of the Bagratid dynasty.
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I remember it as a cold and treeless, miserable place.
I guess that’s why we have coffee today?
No. Ran out of has-beans.
MAGA. Make Ani Great Again.
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