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

and western Armenia were used almost solely for animal
husbandry. The Mongols and Turknen nomads used the
area between Erznjan, Bayberd, and Sebastia/Sivaa, and
areas around Van and in Diyarbakr for these purposes, t
also . Hot only was good farmland allowed to desiccate,
but with the mass enslavings and deportations of whole
Tillages, there were even fewer farmers; and with the
mass theft of livestock, remaining farmers often were
deprived of their only source of power for pulling the
plow.
A part of the Caucasian land-owning class also was
deprived of land and driven to bankruptcy by the Mongols'
excessive tax demands. Already by the time of the
princes' rebellion of 1259-61, the sources speak of the
impoverishment of some of the princes:
...With [the rebel king David] went many
other great princes of districts who were
harassed and harried, bankrupt, and who had
mortgaged cities and districts, but were still
unable to satiate the evil, leech-like appetite
[of the Mongols]. 2.
HAP p. 658.
KG p.,389: ",..and nma ew ayl mecamec isxank gaw
zanyaga eat
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