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

Xalbakean-Froeeani. Babayan reasonably suggests that the
kotmnakals were endowed with some administrative-judicial
powers . The sane author bellevee that the amiras or emirs
were city mayors who stood at the head of an elaborate
but poorly-understood governing body which included clergy
and wealthy laymen. It is clear from Inscriptions that at
times even the administrative heads of large villages were
appointed directly from the top, in one case by Iwane himself^.
Ihe sources also contain a welter of terms such as tanuter.
gaherec * iSatan, patronac * patron and others, some known
from the dawn of Armenian writing, others new. However,
the manner in which the real content of such terms changed
over time is not clearly known. Often titles such as
sahnSah or aarzban appear as the given names of individuals
who held titled official positions, adding to the confusion'.
H4£ P. 552.
MAP p. 553; YT pp. 50, 52, 68.
3 The following are some random examples of the confusion
resulting from the use of titles as proper names.
1206/7 irspasalar Zak 'are calls himself Zak 'are Sahnsah
, CVT P. 47)
1208/9 Sahnsah ahnsah Zak aria (CIA v. I p. 6; Vf p. 49}