Thomas of Metsoph (Armenian: Թովմա Մեծոփեցի, Thovma Metsopetsi) (1378–1446) was an Armenian cleric and chronicler who left an account of Timur’s invasions...
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destroyed the city of Samshvilde and sacked the capital city Tbilisi. He massacred thousands of Christians, According to Thomas of Metsoph, Jahan Shah imposed...
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Movses Khorenatsi (redirect from Moses of Khorene)
antiquity and the author of the History of the Armenians. Movses's History of the Armenians was the first attempt at a universal history of Armenia and remains...
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from Crimea by the Armenian catholicos Kirakos of Virap (1441-1443) at the request of Thomas of Metsoph. The Albanian script inside the manuscript was...
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and Armenian Thomas of Metsoph mention the apostasy of the king but represent it as a clever ruse which enabled him to earn a degree of trust from Timur...
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in a collection of Armenian sources. The name Sebeos, which is a shortened form of the name Eusebius, appears as the name of one of the Armenian bishops...
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and Literary Study. Peeters Publishers. pp. 70–73. ISBN 9789068317954. Thomas de Waal. "The Caucasus: An Introduction" Oxford University Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0199750436...
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or David the Philosopher was a neoplatonist philosopher of the 6th century. David was a pupil of Olympiodorus in Alexandria. His works, originally written...
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(Armenian: հայրեն) is an old form of Armenian folk poetry. Hayrens are typically composed of four lines with each of the four lines containing 15 syllables...
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Gyumri (redirect from Battle of Aleksandropol)
the Armenian historian Thomas of Metsoph, although the Kara Koyunlu levied heavy taxes against the Armenians, the early years of their rule were relatively...
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