Smbat II of Armenia
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Smbat II (
Life
Smbat was crowned king on the same day of his father's death.[2] He ruled from the city of Ani, which he fortified. In particular, he ordered the construction of a wall around Ani, also building towers and fortifications to protect the city from north to west. He began the construction of the Cathedral of Ani.[3] His reign was generally a time of peace,[4] only disturbed by conflict between Smbat and his uncle Mushegh in Kars. The latter in 982 incited the Sallarid emir of Āzarbāijān, Abu'l-Haija, to capture and Dvin, attack Smbat's domains and demand from him a tribute.[5] This state of affairs was quickly brought to an end when Abu'l-Haija was captured by Abu Dulaf, the Muslim emir of Goght'n. Smbat concluded a peace with Abu Dulaf that left the emir in control of Dvin and Goght'n.[6] Smbat inspired contention with the Armenian Church when he married his own niece (sister's daughter), which the church strongly opposed.[7]
King Smbat died and was buried in Ani in 989,
See also
References
- ^ Nersessian, Sirarpie Der (1970). The Armenians. Praeger Publishers. p. 202.
The two brothers , Gurgen ( Kiurike I ) on the left and King Smbat II on the right , hold a model of the church . Smbat , as King of Ani , wears a large turban like the one worn later by Gagik I
- ^ Garsoïan, Nina G. (1997). "The Independent Kingdoms of Medieval Armenia," in The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century, ed. Richard G. Hovannisian. New York: St. Martin's Press, p. 179.
- ^ (in Armenian) Arakelyan, Babken N. (1976), "Բագրատունյաց թագավորույունը X դարի վերջին և XI դարի սկզբներին" [The Bagratuni Kingdom from the Late Tenth to the Early Eleventh Centuries] in Հայ Ժողովրդի Պատմություն [History of the Armenian People], eds. Tsatur Aghayan et al. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, vol. 3, pp. 130-31.
- ^ (in French) Grousset, René (1947). Histoire de l'Arménie, des origines à 1071. Paris, Payot, pp. 500ff.
- ^ Ter-Ghewondyan, Aram N. (1976). The Arab Emirates in Bagratid Armenia. Trans. Nina G. Garsoïan. Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, pp. 100-01.
- ^ Arakelyan, "The Bagratuni Kingdom from the Late Tenth to the Early Eleventh Centuries," p. 129.
- ^ Arakelyan, "The Bagratuni Kingdom from the Late Tenth to the Early Eleventh Centuries," pp. 133-34.
- ^ Manuk-Khaloyan, Armen, "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 (2013), pp. 149, 174.