Kirakos Gandzaketsi

Kirakos Gandzaketsi () (s. 1200/1202–1271) adalah seorang sejarawan Armenia pada abad ke-13Steven Runciman. A History of the Crusades. — Cambridge University Press, 1987. — Vol. I. — P. 335"Later Armenian chroniclers, such as Samuel of Ani and Mekhitar of Airavanq, writing at the end of the twelfth century, and Kirakos Gandzaketsi and Vartan the Great, in the thirteenth century, treat only briefly of the First Crusade."René Grousset. The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia. — Rutgers University Press, 1970. — P. 282"Mongka gave a warm welcome to this faithful vassal and handed him a yarligh of diploma of investiture and protection, "a diploma", says the Armenian chronicle of Kirakos, "bearing his seal and explicitly forbidding any action against the person or states of Hethum. He also gave him a charter enfranchizing churches everywhere." Another Armenian historian, the monk "Hayton", in his Flor des extoires d'Orient, states in addition that Mongka gave his visitor an assurance that a great Mongol army under his brother, Hulagu khan, would attack Baghdad; destroy the caliphate, their "mortal enemy"; and restore the Holy Land to the Christians."S. Peter Cowe. Kirakos Ganjakec'i or Arewelc'i // Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History / Edited by David Thomas & Alex Mallet. — BRILL, 2012. —vol. IV. — p. 438:"Kirakos is one of the most important Armenian historians of the 13th century. He was born in the region of Ganja and received his early formation at the monastic school of Nor Getik under the eminent savant Vanakan Vardapet."Abaqa — Encyclopædia Iranica. Peter Jackson dan penulis Sejarah Armenia, sebuah penjelasan peristiwa dari abad ke-4 dan ke-12 dan deskripsi mendetil dariperistiwa pada masanya.Khanlaryan, L. «Կիրակոս Գանձակեցի». Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. vol. v. Yerevan, Armenian SSR: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1979, p. 450. Karyanya utamanya terkonsentrasi pada Armenia abad pertengahan dan peristiwa yang terjad di Kaukasus dan Timur Dekat. Karya tersebut dijadikan sumber utama untuk kajian invasi Mongol dan bahkan berisi dafftar kata pertama yang tercatat dari bahasa Mongolia.Zgusta, Ladislav, Franz J. Hausmann and Oskar Reichmann (eds.). An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991, p. 2368. . Karya tersebut diterjemahkan ke dalam beberapa bahasa yang meliputi bahasa Latin, bahasa Prancis dan bahasa Rusia.

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 An English translation of Kirakos Gandzaketsi's History of the Armenians by Robert Bedrosian.
 English translation of the History of the Armenians - mirror if main site is unavailable

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