386 SA p. 167 dates this in 1321/22, while ANM , p. 123 has 1326/27.

387 SA p. 165.

388 SA p. 165.

389 JS p. 74.

390 l4CC p. 334.

391 Battuta p. 437.

392 SA pp. 167-69.

393 SA p. 169.

394 TM p. 21.

395 SA p. 170.

396 TM pp. 46-47.

397 ANM pp. 144-45.

398 SA p. 172.

399 Clav. pp. 130, 138.

400 H.A. Manandyan, Trade, ch. VI p. 201-202, ch. VI passim. L.H. Babayan, Aknarkner mijnadaryan hayastani patmut'iwnic' [Episodes from the History of Medieval Armenia], Koch'vorakan feodalakan tntesajevi tirapetut'yan hetevank'nere nstakyaec' zhoghovurdneri tntesakan kyank' i vra [Consequences of the Dominance of the Nomadic Feudal Economic System on the Economic Life of Sedentary Peoples]" [Episodes] pp. 77-119.

401 Episodes p.83.

402 HAP p. 657.

403 HAP p. 658.

404 KG p. 389: "...end nma ew ayl mecamec ishxank' gawarhac' neghealk' ew tarhapealk', caxealk' ew graw edealk' zk'aghak's ew zgawars, ew och' karac'ealk' yagec'uc'anel zanyags est nmanut'ean ch'ar tzrkac'".

405 HAP p. 657.

406 Rashid, III pp. 308-309; Yov, Yish. p. 992.

407 Q p. 94.

408 Q. p. 95.

409 ibid.

410 Q p. 96.

411 ibid.

412 Q p. 105.

413 Q p. 100.

414 Q. p. 101.

415 Q. p. 100.

416 HAP p. 661.

417 Manandyan, Trade, pp. 197-200.

418 HAP pp. 642-44. R. Hewsen's articles ("The Meliks" in REA) have demonstrated the probable survival of "noble" status within melik families descended from the naxarars.

419 Episodes p. 86.

420 Clav. pp. 138, 148.

421 JS p. 14.

422 Clav. pp. 138-39, 333.

423 KG p. 288: "...Isk na zays och' arareal tay sakaw zorrs ew i jerhn Awagin, ordwoyn Iwanei, or er end T'at'ar zorun, yghe arh nosa aselov. 'Mich'ch'ew e ekeal despann im, zor yghec'i arh xaghann, ark'ayn jer, och' karem gal arh jez".

424 KG p. 289: "Isk horak'oyr nora Rhuzudan ibrew luaw zayn, p'axeaw yAp'xazet' ew i Suanet' ordwoyn iwrov miws Dawt'aw ew ygheac' despans arh miws zoragluz t'at'arin, orum anun er Bat'u, azgakan ghanin...kal nma hnazand. Ew na hramayeac' nma nstel i Tp'xis, ew sok'a och' enddimac'an, k'anzi end awurs end ays merheal er ghann".

425 KC pp. 245-46; Mur. p. 118.

426 KC pp. 303-304; Mur. p. 169.

427 Clav. pp. 131-32.

428 KC pp. 261-62; Mur. p. 133, also KC pp. 297-99; Mur. pp. 164-65.

429 TM pp. 17-18. The present writer regrets that he is unable to furnish the classical Armenian texts in transliteration for TM. To my knowledge there is no copy of Shahnazarean's 1860 edition in the United States. The above passage has been extracted from a full translation of Mecop'ec'i's History done by the present writer, during the winter of 1976/77 in Erevan.

430 HAP vol. IV p. 25.

431 It was about this time [1405/6] that the king of Georgia of whom we have already spoken, came out in rebellion. He invaded the country round and about Ani and Erzerum, which is of Greater Armenia, and extended his raid down even to Tabriz, plundering and burning many villages and hamlets, spreading terror on all hands. The Moslems of Tabriz held that Prince Omar must of his duty march to their defence, but he failed to come. But next he sent in his place, giving him command in Tabriz, a certain great noble [of whom we have already spoken) a very old man, him whose name was Omar Toban, who at the head of some 5,000 horse had hitherto been stationed on the Georgian frontier of those parts. From the country round Tabriz troops were hurriedly collected, these numbering some 15,000 horse, and forthwith proudly marched through the streets of that city, where they made a very fine display. Then these all took their departure for the frontier in the region of the Alataq plains, which are of Greater Armenia. No sooner had king George heard of their approach than he marched out with 5,000 of his horsemen to encounter them; and coming fell on them at night. Taking them thus by surprise, he slew most of these men, while such as escaped fled back to Tabriz, where the terror and confusion of the Moslem folk became very great" (Clav. p. 323).

432 WR pp. 27l-72.

433 For example: 1233/34 col. Alishan, Hay. #318 "B", p.457; 1238/39 col. Alishan, #318 "C'', p.458; 1239/40 col. Yov. Yish., pp. 936-37; 1240/41 col. Yov. Yish., pp. 941-42, to cite a few of the earlier ones. See E. M. Korkhmazian's Armianskaia miniatiura Kryma [Armenian Miniatures of Crimea] ( Erevan, 1978).

434 SO pp. 178-79.

435 See above pp. 167-68, and Appendix B p. 279.

436 TM p. 15 .


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