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3 unusual facts about Lesser Armenia


Armenian Renaissance

The Kingdom of Lesser Armenia, which made notable progress regeneration in Cilicia, did not fare much better at the hands of the Mamelukes of Egypt.

Lesser Armenia

Lesser Armenia was reunited with the kingdom of Greater Armenia under the Arshakuni king Tiridates III in AD 287, until the temporary conquest of Shapur II in 337.

By the 3rd century BC, the Kingdom of Pontus reached its greatest extent and covered also the territories of southeastern coasts of the Black Sea, including the provinces of Trapezus, Rizon and Hamshen (the area where the ethnic Armenian Hamshenis originated).



see also

AKN

Akn (Armenian: Ակն), a town in Central Anatolia or historical lesser Armenia founded by the Armenian Artsruni dynasty