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

Another administrative change occurred regarding
Armenia in the mid-13th century. This was the establish-
ment of the Il-Khanid Mongol state over the territory of
Iran, and the inclusion of Caucasia into it, beginning
in 1256. Prior to that time the Caucasus had formed a
single administrative unit composed of five vilayets.
Of these five, the first two were areas of Armenian
population, namely 1) the Gurjistani (Georgian) vilayet.
and 2) the vilayet of Greater Armenia. The Gurjistanl
vilayet consisted of eight tumana or districts each
capable of providing 10,000 soldiers. Three of the eight
tumana in the first vilayet .were Armenian and included Ani,
Kara, northeasternmost Armenia, Siwnik* and Arc'ax. The second
vilayet, that of Greater'Armenia embraced some of the
quasi-independent Armenian principalities, such as the
Mamikonean/T'ornikeans of Sasun and the Arcrunid Xedenek-
eans of Vaapurakan. The center of this vilayet was Karin/
Erzerum .
Following the granting of Iran as a hereditary
appanage to Hulegu-Khan in 1256, the situation was somewhat
altered . First, HUlegU chose as his residence Mughan
in Azarbaijan which until then had been the camping grounds
of Baiju-noyin. Htilegti ordered the latter and all the
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