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The politleal, social and economic fragmentation
of Armenian states which accompanied the Turkish invasions
and a similar fragmentation of Turkish states resulting
in the proliferation of emirates was new neither to the
Armenian nor to the Turkish polity. Also not unexpectedly
for naxarar Armenia, the political fragmentation was
accompanied by religious fr agmentation. K.ot only were
numerous small Armenian political entities engendered,
tout several kat'olikoi (or anti-kat'olikoi) emerged in
the ll-12th centuries. In this case, too, the confusion
created by the Saljuqs acted as a catalyst on a phenomenon
of hoary antiquity, which long predated their arrival .
The situation created by the overlordship of ostensibly
Muslim rulers over Christian Armenians across most of the
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Armenian highlands was not new.. Inasmuch as religious And
political agreement in the ancient world were often
inseparable, and because Armenia*s powerful neighbors
were determined to control that state, the Armenians were
no strangers to religious persecution .
1
Immediately
prior
H M . .Bart'ikyan, "Havastane Byuzandakan tirapetut*yan
nerk '
o. 3. Kronakan atak'akanut"yunaLArmenia under 5yzantine
Domination, 3. The Heligious Policy]" QAP pp. 435-39;
H .Berberian, "Le Patriarcat aroenien du sultanat de Roum",R£A
n.s. #3(1966), pp. 233-43.
2
On the nature of Turkish "Islam" see DMH pp. 270-73} PT p.8,
3
Throughout most of Armenia's history, the pressure to
alter the country's apostolic Honophysitism had come from
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