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

history associated with the pre-Mongol period: (1) the
Saljuq invasions of the Armenians highlands; (2) the
Turkish domination and its consequences; and (3) the new
situation created by the resurgence of Georgia; the
second part of the chapter details the invasions of the
13-l4th centuries.
The Turkish invasions and eventual political domin-
ation of most parts of the Armenian highlands did not
occur at any one date, nor were they accomplished by any
one s>roup. Rather, both as the contemporaries noted, and
as modern scholars have pointed out, from the early llth
century onward various parts of Asia Minor were subjected
to direct attack and to infiltration which accompanied the
invasions and settlement of diverse Turkic groups there.
Turkish migrations to Asia Minor continued from the llth
through the 15th centuries, a period of approximately
400 years .
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Standard reference works on the Saljuq. invasions include
Claude Cahen's Pre-Cttorogn Turkey (London, 1968) [Hereafter
PJ] plus numerous articles by the same author (bibliography
PI __ ppx __ 441-50); _ The Cambridge History $£ Iran.
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and Mongol Periods) J. A. Boyle, ed. (Cambridge,
1968) [SUP], Speros Vryonis1 The Decline of Mediev Medieval Hell-
in Asia Minor and the Process of Islaiaization
leventh through the Fifteenth Century (Los Ange
71) CljIIK] details the impact of the Oriental invasions
on the Greek population of Asia Minor. On Armenia in
particular see vol. Ill of the History of the Armenian
People [gay. Soiovrdi patmut'yun] (Erevan. HffeTTHST"
chapter 26 pp. 440-60 by S.V.Bornazyan. "Hayastani nvajSuma
ael*uk-t 'urk eri ko^aic CThe Conquest of Armenia by the
Saljuq Turks]".
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