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Kingdom of Artsakh

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Languages
  
Armenian

Government
  
Monarchy

Subdivision of the kingdom
  
1182

Date dissolved
  
1261

Religion
  
Armenian Apostolic

Established
  
1000

Founded
  
1000 AD

Kingdom of Artsakh

Capital
  
Khachen, Haterk, Vaykunik

Kingdom of artsakh


The Kingdom of Artsakh (Armenian: Արցախի թագավորություն), was a medieval dependent Armenian kingdom on the territory of Syunik, Artsakh (present-day Nagorno-Karabakh), Gardman and Gegharkunik. Contemporary sources referred to it as the Khachen. The royal house of Khachen was a cadet branch of the ancient Syunid dynasty and was named Khachen, after its main stronghold. The kingdom emerged when Hovhannes-Senekerim acquired the royal title in 1000.

The kingdom was under the protectorate of the Bagratuni kings of Armenia.

Artsakh maintained its sovereign rulers, though in the early 13th century they accepted Georgian, then Mongol suzerainty. They lost the royal title after the assassination of Hasan-Jalal (1214–1261) by the Ilkhanid ruler Arghun, but continued to rule Syunik as a principality, which from the 16th century comprised five Armenian melikdoms and lasted until the early 19th century. The descendants of the kings of Syunik played a prominent role in the history of Syunik as far as the 20th century.

References

Kingdom of Artsakh Wikipedia