Armenian Colophons on the Takeover of Sis (1375) (original) (raw)

_ Cilicia and Its Catholicosate from the Fall of the Armenian Kingdom in 1375 to 1915

The paper focuses on three moments in the history of Cilicia and its Catholicosate between 1375 and 1915. 1 They relate to the period after the fall of the last Armenian kingdom, the reestablishment of the Catholicosate in Echmiadzin, and the crises between the patriarchal sees of Sis, Echmiadzin, and Constantinople. 2 1 I have covered the first two centuries of this period in Dickran Kouymjian, "L'Arménie sous les dominations des Turcomans et des Ottomans (XV e-XVI e siècles)," in Histoire de l'Arménie et du peuple arméniens, ed. Gérard Dédéyan

The End of Mongol-Armenian Relations (1295–1335)

The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)

the end of mongol-armenian relations 193 CHAPTER EIGHT THE END OF MONGOLARMENIAN RELATIONS 12951335 With the death of Abaqa Khan, Tegűder , as a convert to Islam , transferred the Il-Khanate to the Sultanate. 1 The Mongol minority was absorbed slowly but steadily by the indigenous Islamic majority. The process of the Mongols ' conversion to Islam reached its peak during the reign of Ghazan Khan when he adopted Islam. Ghazan, as a Mongol Chinggisid, actually demonstrated that affairs of state could prevail over the ancestral tradition of religious tolerance. The accomplishment of the Mongols ' conversion to Islam was well received by the Muslims and is well documented in Muslim historiography. However, the reaction of the Christians, particularly Armenians , to this act is less known. In fact, the Armenians perceived the Mongols' conversion process in light of their national interest. Therefore, the arguments related to Mongol-Armenian relations after the Islamisation of the Mongol Il-Khans, the end of Mongol-Mamluk war during the reign of Öljeitű Il-Khan (r. 1304-1316), and the aftermath of the cooperation merits our attention.

Sasun: The History of an 1890s Armenian Revolt

2014

Sasun, a region of Anatolia formerly under Ottoman rule and today part of eastern Turkey, is frequently described as the site where, in 1894, the Turks massacred large numbers of Armenian Christians, with estimates ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 people. News reports at the time detailed that gruesome acts, including torture, had occurred at Sasun at the hands of the Ottoman army. The Ottoman Empire denied these allegations. A commission of European delegates sent to investigate the matter concluded that the news reports were highly exaggerated, yet the original stories of atrocities have persisted. This volume provides a close examination of the historical evidence to shed light on what happened at Sasun. The authors' research indicates that the stories circulated by the media of torture and murder in Sasun don't hold up against the findings of the European investigators. Evidence instead shows that an Armenian revolt led to fights with local Kurds and many fewer deaths, on bo...