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

terrain of Caucasia, such revolts always took the
form of guerrilla warfare. It is noteworthy that
despite the demonstrated exhaustion of Armenia during
the 14th century, there still was some scattered
resistance offered to Timur:
...How a pious tanuter named Martiros,
an extremely strong warrior from the village
of Kolb [in northeastern Armenia], mercifull,
a lover of the poor, went up onto Bardol
mountain which others call T'akalt'u. With
him were extremely manly and brave youths
from the village. They saved all the Believers
through a great battle and with the intrepid
aiding power of mighty GodA £esua Christ,
our Savior. And though [Timur"a men] fought
many times, they were unable to take that
mountain. But subsequently [Hartiros] was
murdered by an unclean Turkmen named Sahat'
--drowned in the waters of the Araz, far from
human sight. 1.
In addition to Kolb, the ProScan city of Sahaponk', and
Surmari and Bjni also offered resistance to Timur2.
Moat remarkable of all were the successes of the Georgian
monarch against Timur. In the early years of the 15th
century, king Giorgi VII undertook a marauding exped-
ition of revenge against Muslim settlements. It was
reminiscent of amirsoasalar Zak*are's final campaign
TM pp. 17-18. The present writer regrets that he is unable
to furnish the classical Armenian texts for III. So my 1
ledge there is no copy of Sahnazarean's 1860 edition in
the United States. The above passage has been extracted
from a full translation of Mecop'ec i'a History done
by the present writer, during the winter of 1976/77 in
Erevan,
HAP vol. IV p. 25.
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