Written at Getik and Gandzak in the Zakarid lands of Georgian Armenia. For the years around 1200 it gives the Georgian conquest of Armenia under Queen Tamar and the Zakarian (Mkhargrdzeli) brothers Zakare and Ivane, the taking of Ani (1199) and the campaigns against the Shaddadids, the Eldiguzids and the Saltukids of Erzurum, the religious disputes between Armenians and Georgians, and the monastic life of the north. For Cilicia he is thin. Kirakos is reliable for his own region and drew on eyewitnesses of the generation of 1200.
About this source
- Title
- Patmutiun Hayots
- Author
- Kirakos Gandzaketsi
- Author's dates
- about 1200 to 1271
- Written
- 1241 to 1265
- Language
- Armenian
- Covers
- about 300 to 1265
- Kind
- History
Bedrosian's English is free online. The Erevan edition and Brosset's French (1870) were not verified here.
Where to read it
Editions
- K. A. Melik-Ohanjanyan (ed.), Kirakos Gandzaketsi, Patmutiun Hayots (Erevan, 1961), Armenian (not freely online)
Translations
- R. Bedrosian, Kirakos Gandzakets'i's History of the Armenians (1986), English, at attalus.org
- Bedrosian's English as a PDF at Documenta Catholica Omnia