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

1403 and 1406, according to the Spanish ambassador
Clavijo, lirnur demolished the churches of Erznjan and
BekariS1.
the triumph of the Turkmans drained Armenia, in
numerous ways. H. Llanandyan and I. Babayan have observed
the collapse of Armenia's economy, pointing out the
incompatibility of the nomadic economic system with the
agricultural and mercantile economy of Armenia?. The
Mongols expropriated for their own use vast tracts of
land in Armenia, taking certain choice farming areas for
summer and winter pasturage for their herds. The slopes
of the Aragac mountains, and the areas of Yayoc* Jor,
parts of the plain of Ayrarat, andvareas around Karin/
Erzerum, Tan, Berkri, and Balel/Bitlie became summer
vavlaa. while Vaspurakan, the Ayrarat plains and the
Xarberd region were used for wintering places . These
areas formerly had been under intensive agricultural
development, but increasingly in the late 13th and in the
14th century they became semi-desert . Parts of southern
Clav. pp. 130, 138.
H.A. Manandyan, Trade, chp. VI pp. 201-202, chp. 71
~ " mi 3nadaryan hayastanl
rom the Historyof Medieval
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feodalakan tnteea.1evi tiraoetut Van
heteyank nera nstakyac* So^ovurdneri tntesakan _ vra
[Consequences of the Dominance of the Nomadic Feuda
Economic System on the Economic Life'of Sedentary Peoples]"
CEpisodeelpp. 77-119.
* Episodes P.83.
4 HAP P. 657.
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