Armenia, Armenians: 1100-1895 - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Sinclair, Thomas A.
Leiden
Brill
(4,317 words)
The Armenians in the period 1100-1895 lived-except for the period of Mongol domination and under the minor aristocrats of northeastern Armenia-under Turkish rule before the Ottoman expansion into Armenia (during the first half of the tenth/sixteenth century). 1. 494/1100 to the Mongol invasions (620s/1220s to 640s/1240s) In northeastern Armenia, in the remote regions around Lake Sevan, lay a series of small, independent Armenian principalities, which, with some differences, constituted the remainder of the late classical and early mediaeval naxarar system (that of a