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

as Karin/Erzerum, looting, pillaging, and talcing slaves
as they went . In 1387 Timur beseiged the Kurdish emir
Ezdin at Van. When he took the citadel after 26 days'
beaeigement, the women and children were enslaved, while
some 7,000 males of all faiths were killed by being
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hurled from the walls . After Timur left Asia Minor
in 1387, severe famine ensued, since due to the disruptions
he had caused, crops were not planted, and now there was
nothing to harvest . Cannibalism was reported in some
areas .
all the Armenians and TaSiks whom he found. Oh, who can
relate all his eveil and the damage he occasioned in
various places. Now...this was finished in the Kajberunik*
country at the retreat called Manuk Surb Nlan, consecrated
by the apostle Thaddeus, and at the foot of [the church
of] Georg the General, during the patriarchate of Armenians
of lord Zak'aria, when the country was controlled by
lara-Iwsiwf (Qara Yusuf), a wicked, bitter, loathsome
wrecker of the land...May God not cause us to witness
again what we have seen" (14CC #710 p. 569).
1 14CC #711 p. 570.
2 SA p. 171; 14CC #717 p. 573, #735 p. 590; 15CC A. pp.
286-87, 277-78; TM p. 30.
3 HAP IV p. 27.
4 M P. 32.
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