The Turco-Mongol Invasions and the Lords of Armenia in the 13 ...

The severity of the taxes and the brutal manner of their
collection triggered an abortive uprising of the naxarar/
didebuls in 1248/49. This rebellion, which was discovered
by the Mongols while still in the planning stages was
crushed at the expense of human and animal lives and crops
in numerous districts of northeastern Armenia and southern
Georgia. Some of the arrested Armenian and Georgian
conspirators, unable to raise the huge ransoms demanded
for their release were tortured or killed . But the main
his life. The great nobility (mecamec awagani) could do
nothing to help him, so thrown into fear were all the
spectators" (KG p. 313). Buqa also planned to seize the
prince of princes Awag, but the great nobility (presumably
Mongol nobility) urged him to visit Buqa with his large
personal army, saying: "Should [Buqa] happen to seize you,
then you attack him". Seeing Awag's troops the frightened
Buqa asked: "What is that multitude of sgldiera for? Could
it be that you are rebelling from the Khan and have come
to kill us"? Buqa then spoke to Awag ofpeace, while
simultaneously plotting against him. But before Buqa was
able to actualize his designs, he died of disease (KG p. 314).
Grigor Aknerc'i does not mention the census of 1243 . .
directly. However, describing the taking of Sebastia/Sivas
in 1244 he writes: "But they did not kill them, rather
took their treasures as booty and registered the populace
and imposed taxes on them according to their custom, the
mal and t'alar. And leaving Jahna (guards) and chiefs in
W land~oTTum..."(GA p. 312).
1 HAP III pp. 620-22} SEPHA pp. 131-32} CAMA p. 366} In
chp. 47, "Concerning the Destruction Wrought by the T'at'are
in Georgia", Kirakos narrates the princes' rebellion of
1249/50: "While the land was recovering a little from the
raids and plunderinge stirred up by the earth-consuming
fire...the princes deprived and robbed the poor, and from
this extortion they bought expensive clothing and they
dressed, ate, drank, and boasted greatly as is the arrogant
cusom of Georgia " (KG p. 318). Kirakos rebukes those who
"do not learn from the past", and he considers the Instigator
of the rebellion to be Satan. "...Suddenly all the
nobility of the T'at'ar army held a council, armed, and
wanted universally to ravage the lands of Armenia and
Georgia, [lands] obedient to them, because tne Georgian
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