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

situatio
as Manazkert and ArSel on the northern shore of Lake Tan,
although this area was not taken until ca. 1208/9 1 ,
Zwane's daughter I'amt'a was married to the Shah Arnen
of Hat * in 1209/102. In a treat final burst, general
Zak'are inarched through NaxiJewan and Juia, through
Xzarbaijan to Uarand, Tabriz and Qazvin, looting and
sacking Muslim settlements .
By
the time of Zak'are's
death in 1212, Georgia was the most powerful state in
the region, while the status of the Armenians, be they
inhabitants of historical Armenia-northeastern, southern,
western-of Georgia, or of the plethora of small communities
stretching to the southwest to the independent Cilician
kingdom had been changed in a very positive way. This situation
was to be altered again almost at once.
1
Ibn al-Athir, year 601 (1204-5) pp. 509-11? year 605
(1208-9) PP. 517-22. In any case, it does not seem that
this area was under direct Georgian military control
for very long, HAP p. 537.
2
KG p. 164; 7A p. 138; Ibn al-Athir (p. 510) followed
by Bar Hebraeua (p. 361) incorrectly reports that "iakare
the Leas" died during the seige of Xlat1. A&u'l Pida
(Halb. trana., p. 228) without naming Zak'are, styles
him Jhe "king of Georgia". During the Xlat' campaign,
Iwane was captured. The marriage of J'amt'a was part
of the peace terms proposed by_the Shah Armen. Eventually
T '
amt '
a became ruler of the Shah Armen state in her own
right, ruling from ca. 1212-Tr (T '
uriyan, op.cit.. pp.
126-31).
3
KG pp. 184-86; VA chp. 83 PP. 139-40; QAP p. 538;
S .Eremyan, Amirspasalar Zak aria Erkavnabazuk CAmlrapasalar
Zak aria MxargrcellJ (Srevan. 1944) pp. 58-60. On the
naxarars in this period see chapter three below and also
Appendix A ,
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