Gagik I of Armenia

Gagik I
Գագիկ Ա
Shahanshah of Armenians, Georgians and Albanians[1]
King of Armenia
King of Ani
The statue of Gagik I found in Ani by Nicholas Marr's excavations in 1906.[2]
King of Armenia
Reign989-1017/20
PredecessorSmbat II
SuccessorHovhannes-Smbat
Burial
SpouseKatranide
IssueHovhannes-Smbat
Ashot IV
Khushush[a]
Names
Gagik I Bagratuni
DynastyBagratuni
FatherAshot III
MotherKhosrovanuysh
ReligionArmenian Apostolic

Gagik I (Armenian: Գագիկ Ա, romanizedGagik A) was a Bagratid king of Armenia who reigned between 989 and 1020,[4] under whom Bagratid Armenia reached its height[5] and enjoyed a period of uninterrupted peace and prosperity.[6]

  1. ^ Հ. Օրբելի (1966). Դիվան հայ վիմագրության. Yerevan. p. 35.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Der Nersessian, Sirarpie (1969). The Armenians. London, Thames & Hudson. p. 201, item 37. ISBN 978-0-500-02066-1.
  3. ^ Manuk-Khaloyan, Armen (2013). "In the Cemetery of their Ancestors: The Royal Burial Tombs of the Bagratuni Kings of Greater Armenia (890-1073/79)". Revue des Études Arméniennes. 35: 150, 162, 167, 172–73.
  4. ^ Yuzbashyan, Karen (1973). К хронологии правления Гагика I Багратуни [On the chronology of the reign of Gagik I Bagratuni] (PDF). Antichnaya Drevnost I Srednii Veka (in Russian). 10: 195–97.
  5. ^ Garsoïan, Nina G. (1991). "Gagik I". In Kazhdan, Alexander P. (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195046526. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  6. ^ Chahin, M. (2001). The Kingdom of Armenia: A History (2. rev. ed.). Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. p. 231. ISBN 9780700714520.