During the medieval period, Aralık was part of the Kingdom of Bagratuni Armenia.
According to Prince Cyril Toumanoff, the earliest Bagratid prince was chronicled as early as AD 314.
•
In the 8th century, a later Bagratid prince (also named Smbat) revolted against the Arab Caliphate but the revolt was defeated.
•
As early as 288-301, the Bagratid prince Smbat held the hereditary Armenian titles of Aspet, which means Master of the Horse, and T'agatir, which means Coronant of the King.
Ming Dynasty | Tang Dynasty | Dynasty Warriors | Song Dynasty | Tudor dynasty | Dynasty | Yuan Dynasty | Han Dynasty | Dynasty (TV series) | Dynasty Warriors 7 | Duck Dynasty | Qajar dynasty | Zhou Dynasty | Safavid dynasty | Pahlavi dynasty | Nguyễn Dynasty | List of emperors of the Trần Dynasty | Liang Dynasty | Dynasty Warriors 8 | Qing dynasty | Macedonian dynasty | Adil Shahi dynasty | Ming dynasty | dynasty | Timurid dynasty | Shang dynasty | Ptolemaic dynasty | Han dynasty | Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt | Chola dynasty |
By the early 9th century the former territories of the Kamsarakans in Arsharunik and Shirak (including Ani) had been incorporated into the territories of the Armenian Bagratuni dynasty.
The Bagratid dynasties – Bagratuni (Բագրատունյաց) in Armenia and Bagrationi (ბაგრატიონი) in Georgia – count among the longest-reigning royal families in the Caucasus (and in Europe), starting as princely houses and attaining to the royal status in both countries in the 9th century.