[8] Geography, attributed to Vardan ap. Saint Martin, Mémoires sur l’Arménie, vol. ii. p. 429. One of these monasteries contained the leather girdle of St. Gregory, and another was consecrated by the saint himself. [↑]
[9] Constantine Porphyrogenitus, de Adm. Imp. c. 44, in vol. iii. p. 196 of the Bonn edition. [↑]
[10] Lane-Poole, Mohammedan Dynasties, London, 1894, p. 118. [↑]
[11] Deguignes, Hist. des Huns, Paris, 1756, vol. i. p. 253; Lane-Poole, op. cit. p. 170. [↑]
[12] Saint Martin, quoting Chamchean, Hist. vol. iii. p. 221. [↑]
[13] Layard (op. cit. p. 26) mentions a local tradition that all these tombs were built by Sultans of the Ak-Kuyunli (White Sheep) and Kara-Kuyunli (Black Sheep) Turkomans. The inscriptions show that this cannot be the case. The Venetian traveller Barbaro, who visited the country during the first half of the fifteenth century, found it in the possession of the horde of the Black Sheep. They were driven out by the rival horde of the White Sheep under Uzun Hasan (1466–1478).
Layard speaks of Bayindar as a known sultan of the White Sheep horde, I know not upon what authority. [↑]
[14] Von Hammer, Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches, vol. iii. p. 143. Akhlat appears to have contained the tombs of some of the ancestors of the Ottoman ruling House (ibid. note to p. 144 on p. 676). [↑]
[15] The Merchant in Persia (Travels of Italians in Persia, Hakluyt Society, London, 1873, p. 160), who visited Armenia in the first quarter of the sixteenth century, describes it as follows:—“This Calata (sic) was anciently a large city, as can be seen by the buildings, but is now reduced to a small fortress.” [↑]