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

Saljuq architecture not only took aome of its inspiration
from Armenian ecclesiastical and civil structures which
graced and still grace the landscape of eastern Asia
Minor, but in the 11-13th centuries, many of the structures
themselves were designed and constructed by Christian
and Muslim Armenians .
By
the end of the 12th century
Armenia was well on the way to absorbing and transforming
its newest residents.
The emergence of Georgia as a great military power
in the late ll-12th centuries radically shifted the balance
scales in favor of complete Caucasian cultural as well
as political supremacy in eastern Asia Minor. Thanks to
Georgia, much of historical Armenia once again came under
Armenian political control-though briefly-and those
parts that were not, were either tributary to Georgia
or had made peace with that stats. Beginning in the reign
of the Georgian Bagratid monarch David II, called "the
Builder" (1089-1125), the armies of Georgia commenced
clearing southern and southeastern Georgia of nomadic Turk-
mens, capturing from them Samaoylde and many strongholds
in the Armeno-Georgian district of Somxit'i (1110) ; Lol-e
1
DMH p. 236 n. 563. One might also compare the style
of dome characteristic of Armenian churches-the gabet'to
the Saljuq kunpets and turbgs. Compare e.g., plates
15,16,17 in S. iter Nersessian's The Armenians (New York ,
1970)to PT p. 394 Pi. 24, p. 395"pl. 30 , p. 402 pi. 34,
p. 403 pi. 35.