Armenia, Armenians: 1100-1895
AuthorSinclair, Thomas A.
SourceEncyclopaedia of Islam Online
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The Armenians in the period 1100–1895 lived—except for the period of Mongol domination and under the minor aristocrats of northeastern Armenia—under Turkish rule before the Ottoman expansion into Armenia (during the first half of the tenth/sixteenth century). In northeastern Armenia, in the remote regions around Lake Sevan, lay a series of small, independent Armenian principalities, which, with some differences, constituted the remainder of the late classical and early mediaeval naxarar system (...