Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Armenian Kingdom Of Cilicia: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Kingdom Of Cilicia - Foundation Of Armenian Power In Cilicia
The Armenians came to serve the Byzantines, as military officers and governors, and when Imperial power in the region weakened in the cha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine Iv Of Armenia: Encyclopedia - Constantine Iv Of Armenia
Constantine IV of Armenia (died 1344) was the first Latin king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1342 to 1344. Born Guy of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine Vi Of Armenia: Encyclopedia - Constantine Vi Of Armenia
Constantine VI of Armenia (died 1373) ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1362 to 1373. He was the son of Hethum of Neghir, a neph...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine V Of Armenia: Encyclopedia - Constantine V Of Armenia
Constantine V of Armenia (died 1362) ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1344 to 1362. He was the son of Baldwin, Marshal of Armen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine Ii Of Armenia: Encyclopedia - Constantine Ii Of Armenia
Constantine II of Armenia was briefly prince of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling the country in 1129. He was poisoned and buried a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter
The Armenian Quarter is one of the four quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. It might appear that the Armenian quarter would be a part ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1292: Encyclopedia - 1292
For broader historical context, see 1290s and 13th century. 1292 - Events. 1292 - Europe. November 17 - (Julian calendar) John Ballio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Avogadro: Encyclopedia - Albert Avogadro
Albert Avogadro (1149-September 14, 1214), was a canon lawyer who served as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1204 until his death. Born ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenians: Encyclopedia - Armenians
The Armenians are a nation and an ethnic group, originating in the Caucasus and eastern Asia Minor. A large concentration remain there, e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine Iii Of Armenia: Encyclopedia - Constantine Iii Of Armenia
Constantine III of Armenia (1278- c.1310) was briefly king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1298 to 1299. He was the son of Leo II...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crusader States: Encyclopedia - Crusader States
The Crusader states were the feudal territories created by Catholic Western Europeans during Holy Wars, called crusades because they carr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marco Polo: Encyclopedia Ii - Marco Polo - The Voyage Of Niccolò And Maffeo Polo
The Polo name originally didn't belong to a family of explorers but to a family of traders. Marco Polo's father, Niccolò (also Nicolò i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Extinct States: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Extinct States - Modern States
List of extinct states - States and territories grouped by geographical location. In and around what is now Bulgaria Third Bulgarian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Armenia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Armenia - Prehistory
Archaeologists refer to the Shulaveri-Shomu culture of the central Transcaucasus region, including modern Armenia, as the earliest known ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lusignan: Encyclopedia Ii - Lusignan - Crusader Kings
The Lusignans were among the French nobles who made great careers in the Crusades. An ancestor of the later Lusignan dynasty in the Holy ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenians: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenians - History
Until modern times, the history of the Armenians is the history of Armenia. The name Armenia designated a shifting region, but the Armeni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The Armenian People And Their Establishment In Jerusalem: 95 Bc–640 Ad
The Armenians are an ancient people who have inhabited parts of Turkey, Iran and the Caucasus for more than three thousand years. The fir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crusader States: Encyclopedia Ii - Crusader States - Facing Islam
While the Reconquista, the centuries long fight to reconquer the Iberian peninsula on the Arabo-Barbaresque Moors (who called it al-Andal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bohemund Iii Of Antioch: Encyclopedia Ii - Bohemund Iii Of Antioch - Prince Of Antioch
In 1164, Bohemund and Raymond III of Tripoli marched out to relieve Harim, under siege from Nur ad-Din, but when Nur ad-Din retreated Boh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1292: Encyclopedia Ii - 1292 - Events
1292 - Europe. November 17 - (Julian calendar) John Balliol is selected as King of Scotland from among 13 candidates by King Edward I ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crusader States: Encyclopedia Ii - Crusader States - Facing Islam
While the Reconquista, the centuries long fight to reconquer the Iberian peninsula on the Arabo-Barbaresque Moors (who called it al-Andal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kozan Adana: Encyclopedia Ii - Kozan Adana - History
Sis (also known as Sissu, Sision, later Flavias or Flaviopolis) has had an important place in Armenian Apostolic Church ecclesiastical hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The Crusader Periods 1099–1187, 1229–1244
In 1009 the Fatamid ruler Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah demolished the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, an act that would help light the spark of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Armenia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Armenia - Armenia And Byzantium
In 591, the great Byzantine warrior-Emperor Maurice defeated the Persians and 'recovered' much of the remaining territory of Armenia into...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Armenia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Armenia - Armenia Under Ottoman Rule From 1514
Between the 4th and 19th centuries, Armenia was conquered and ruled by Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Mongols, and Turks, among others. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Armenia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Armenia - Arabs Seljuks And Crusaders
Although the native dynasty of the Bagratids to which the Arabs gave the royal crown of Armemia, was founded under favourable circumstanc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Armenia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Armenia - The First Republic 1917-1922
After the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the takeover of the Bolsheviks, Stepan Shaumyan was placed in charge of Armenia. The convention ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Armenia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Armenia - Armenian Kingdom
After the destruction of the Seleucid Empire, a Hellenistic Greek successor state of Alexander the Great's short-lived empire, the first ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Armenia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Armenia - The First Republic 1917-1922
After the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the takeover of the Bolsheviks, Stepan Shaumyan was placed in charge of Armenia. The convention ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bohemund Iii Of Antioch: Encyclopedia Ii - Bohemund Iii Of Antioch - Later Life And Death
In 1190 Bohemund met the remnants of the German contingent arriving on the Third Crusade; Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, had died on th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Armenia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Armenia - Christianisation
In AD 301, Armenia became the first nation to adopt Christianity as a state religion. It established a church that still exists independe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenians: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenians - Geographic Distribution
Armenians today are scattered all over the world, constituting the Armenian Diaspora. About 3 million Armenians live in Armenia, but ther...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenians: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenians - Culture
Armenians - Language. Main articles: Armenian language, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Armenia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Armenia - Early History
The Armenian Kingdom of Urartu or Van flourished in the Caucasus and eastern Asia Minor between ca. 800 BC and 600 BC. It streched from t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Armenia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Armenia - Armenian Kingdom
After the destruction of the Seleucid Empire, a Hellenistic Greek successor state of Alexander the Great's short-lived empire, a Hellenis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crusader States: Encyclopedia Ii - Crusader States - Exterminating Paganism In Europe
Crusader states - Prussia. During the Northern Crusades, a Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights was founded in Prussia to combat paga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marco Polo: Encyclopedia Ii - Marco Polo - Did The Trip Really Take Place?
According to a famous story, a priest begged Marco on his deathbed to confess that he had lied in his stories. Marco refused, insisting, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenians: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenians - Culture
Armenians - Language. Main article: Armenian language It is estimated that there are at least 10 million Armenian speakers in the wor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The First Muslim Period 638–1099
The Persian conquest and sacking of Jerusalem in 614 and the subsequent Islamic conquest in 638 found the Armenians under siege from thei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The Crusader Periods 1099–1187 1229–1244
In 1009 the Fatamid ruler Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah demolished the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, an act that would help light the spark of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenians: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenians - Classification
Armenians are a sub branch of the Indo-European family, which migrated from the north Caucasus in multiple directions around 4500 B.C. Ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenians: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenians - Geographic Distribution
Armenians today are scattered all over the world, constituting the Armenian Diaspora. About 3 – 3.5 million Armenians live in Armenia, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - 1260–1517—the Mamluk Period
The coming of the Slave Army of the Mamluks in 1260, replacing the short lived late Muslim Ayyubid rulers (1244–1260) had little effect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The Ottoman Period 1517–1917
Under the Ottomans Jerusalem would become a cosmopolitan city where religious tolerance to some degree functioned well and a corrupt but ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marco Polo: Encyclopedia Ii - Marco Polo - The Voyages Of Marco
Marco Polo - The journey to Cathay. Maffeo and Niccolò Polo set out on a second journey with the Pope's response to Kublai Khan, in 12...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marco Polo: Encyclopedia Ii - Marco Polo - Il Milione
On their return from China in 1295, the family settled in Venice where they became a sensation and attracted crowds of listeners who had ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marco Polo: Encyclopedia Ii - Marco Polo - Later Life
Marco Polo was finally released from captivity in the summer of 1299, and he returned home to Venice, where his father and uncles had bou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marco Polo: Encyclopedia Ii - Marco Polo - Historical Impact
Although the Polos were by no means the first Europeans to reach China overland (see, for example, Radhanites and Giovanni da Pian del Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Extinct States: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Extinct States - Ancient And Medieval States
States and realms that disappeared in ancient history. List of extinct states - Ancient Europe North Africa and the Near East. Adiaben...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - Struggles Over The Holy Sites
The Struggle over the Holy sites had little effect on the buildings themselves, save the fact that all the churches ended up agreeing in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The British Mandate Period—1917–1948
The British authorities, with their spit-shined boots and years of colonial experience were quick to embrace the Status Quo, despite Balf...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The 1948 War And Jordanian Rule 1948–1967
In 1948 the British were set to leave Palestine, the U.N agreed to partition Palestine and Israel declared her independence. Under the U....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Kingdom Of Cilicia: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Kingdom Of Cilicia - The First Crusade And The Roupenid Principality
With the First Crusade, the Armenians in Cilicia gained powerful allies among the Frankish crusaders. With their help they helped securin...   » Read the article