789, it was made the second alternate capital (after Dvin) of the governor (ostikan) of the province of al-Arminiya.
Early in 572, the Armenians under Vardan II Mamikonian defeated the Persian governor of Armenia and captured his headquarters at Dvin; the Persians soon retook the city but shortly afterwards it was captured again by combined Armenian and Byzantine forces and direct hostilities between Byzantines and Persians began.
Saladin was born in Tikrit, Iraq, but his family had originated from the ancient city of Dvin.
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The main cathedral of St. Grigor (3rd-5th century), with a small church of St. Sarkis to the right (6th century), and the residence of the Catholicos on the left (5th century).
The Armenian body of the Church officially severed ties with the West in 554, during the second Council of Dvin where the dyophysite formula of the Council of Chalcedon was rejected.
In 589, he laid siege to the Armenian capital Dvin, but raised it when he heard of the rebellion of general Bahram Chobin against the Persian shah, Hormizd IV (r. 579–590).
This momentary weakness in the central administration allowed the Rawadids and Shaddadids to take control of the area to the northeast of Tabriz Dvin, respectively.
He relieved the siege of Petra and reinforced its garrison, but lacking supplies for his army, he was forced to withdraw to Dvin in Persian Armenia, leaving behind some 3,000 men garrisoning Petra and further 5,000 under Phabrizus to keep the supply route open.
He was unable to prevent the Arabs from pillaging the capital of Dvin in 642.
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The earthquake had ruined the city's defenses and Dvin was taken by Muhammad Ibn Abi'l-Saj, the Sajid emir of Azerbaijan, who turned it into a military base.
In 2012, Anna Kasyan was selected by Ararat (brandy) as being among top 50 most influential Armenians today, among other notable names such as Charles Aznavour, Serj Tankian, Ruben Vardanian and others.
The family were closely connected to the Shaddadid dynasty, and when the last Shaddadid was deposed in Dvin in 1130, Shadhi moved the family first to Baghdad and then to Tikrit, where he was appointed governor by the regional administrator Bihruz.