Principality of Khachen

The Principality of Khachen ( _hy. Խաչենի իշխանություն) was a medieval Armenian principality in the territory of historical Artsakh (present-day Nagorno-Karabakh). [Howorth, Henry Hoyle(1876) "History of the Mongols: From the 9th to the 19th Century"Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 14] [Russian scholar V. Shnirelman: "Khachen was a medieval Armenian feudal principality in the territory of modern Karabakh, which played a significant role in the political history of Armenia and all the region at X-XVI centuries". // [http://www.vehi.net/istoriya/armenia/albanskymif.html#_ftn3 В.А. Шнирельман, Албанский миф, 2006, Библиотека «Вeхи»] ] [Russian scholar Smirnova L. P.:"Armenian principality of Khachen in Karabakh" // [http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/rus11/Cudesa/framepred.htm Аджаиб ад-дунья. Чудеса мира, ред. Смирнова Л.П., М. Наука. 1993] ] ["Armenian Khachen", http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/rus8/Dulaf/text/primtext.phtml Абу Дулаф. Вторая записка. Ред. Беляев В., М., Наука. 1960 (Комментарии), in Russian] [The New Encyclopedia Britannica by Robert MacHenry, Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc, Robert MacHenry, (1993) p.761] The marches of Artsakh and Utik were attached to the Kingdom of Armenia in Antiquity but in the early medieval period were often under Georgian and Albanian control under Sassanid or Arab suzerainty.cite book
last =Parry
first =Ken
coauthors =David J. Melling, Dimitry Brady, Sidney H. Griffith, John F. Healey
title =The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity
publisher =Wiley-Blackwell
date =December 5, 2001
pages =335-336
isbn = 0631232036] From the twelfth century the Armenian Khachen principality dominated the region. The Byzantine emperor Constantine VII addressed his letters to the prince of Khachen with the inscription "To Prince of Khachen, Armenia." [Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, De ceremoniis aubae byzantinae (Ed. J.P.Migne. Patrologiae cursiis completus, Series Graeco-Latina, 112), p. 248]

According to Abū Dulaf, an Arab traveller of the time, Khachen was an Armenian principality immediately south of Barda'a. [Abū-Dulaf. "Abū-Dulaf Misʻar Ibn Muhalhil's Travels in Iran (circa A.D. 950)", Cairo University Press, 1955, p. 74] The Armenian princely family of Hasan Jalalyan began ruling much of Khachen and Artsakh in 1214. [cite book
last =de Waal
first = Thomas
authorlink = Thomas de Waal
title = Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War
publisher = New York University Press
date = 2003
pages=p. 287
location = New York
isbn = 0-8147-1945-7] cite book
last =Hacikyan
first =Agop Jack
coauthors =Gabriel. Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk
title =The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the Sixth to the Eighteenth Century
publisher =Wayne State University Press
date =2002
pages =p. 470
id =ISBN 0814330231] [cite book |last=Cornell |first=Svante E. |date=2001 |title=Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus |pages= p. 66. |publisher= Routledge (UK) |isbn=ISBN 0700711627] In 1216, the Jalalyans founded the Gandzasar monastery which became the seat of a local Catholicos forced to Khachen from Partav (Barda) by the steady Islamization of the city. The Khamsa (The Five) principalities maintained Armenian autonomy in the region throughout the Persian-Ottoman Wars and Turkic migrations. In 1603 the Persians established a protectorate over the Khamsa and sponsored the establishment of a local khanate in 1750.

References

ee also

* History of Nagorno-Karabakh
* Artsakh
* Karabakh

External links

* http://www.cilicia.com/History.htm