Aranshahik
Aranshahik was the first ruling dynasty of Caucasian Albania from an unknown date until the late sixth century AD. According to Movses Khorenatsi, the dynasty of Aranshahik was established by the Armenian king Vagharshak.[1]
List of rulers
[edit]- Prince Arran
- Prince Aray
- Prince Anushavan
- Prince Parat
- Prince Arbag
- Prince Zavan
- Prince Parnas
- Prince Sur
- Prince Havang
- Prince Vashtagh
- Prince Ambakh
- Prince Arnakh
- Prince Shavarsh
- Prince Horay
- Prince Vastamkar
- Prince Harakh
- Prince Hiran
- Prince Anjakh
- Prince Dalagh
- Prince Horai II
- Prince Zarmehr
- Prince Borj
- Prince Arbun
- Prince Bazak
- Prince Khoy
- Prince Yusak
- Prince Khaynakh
- Prince Skaiordu
- Prince Parui
- Prince Pharnavaz
- Prince Pajuj
- Prince Kornak
- Prince Pavus
- Prince Eruand
- Prince Tigran
Cadet branches
[edit]Almost no information exists about Prince Arran and his early successors. According to tradition, in the beginning of the 7th century the Mihranids had invited 60 men of the Aranshahiks to a banquet and had killed them all, with the exception of Zarmihr Aranshahik, who had married a Mihranid princess. Hence the Mihranid family had becomen princes of Gardman and presiding princes of all Caucasian Albania. Sahl Smbatean was a descendant of Zarmihr Aranshahik. According to Arakel Babakhanian Esayi Abu-Muse was a member of the local house of Aranshahik too.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Agop Jack Hacikyan (2000). Agop Jack Hacikyan; Edward S. Franchuk; Gabriel Basmajian; Nourhan Ouzounian (eds.). The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the sixth to the eighteenth century. Vol. 2. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 166. ISBN 9780814330234.
- ^ Arakel Babakhanian (Leo). Երկերի ժողովածու (Collected Works). vol. ii. Yerevan, Armenian SSR: Sovetakan Grogh, 1967, pp. 446- 449.