Artemid (Atramit, Artamit), a village on Lake Van, ii. 119–121; 36, 42, 135.
Researches at made by Schulz, ii. 120 note 1
Arter, Islet of, Lake Van, ii. 135
Artsruni, The, ancient Armenian family of princely rank claiming descent from a king of Assyria, i. 336, ii. 429.
Their vast possessions in Vaspurakan (Van) during the decline of the caliphate, i. 336.
Their territory overrun and their prince captured by the Arab armies, 338.
Their attitude towards the Bagratuni family, raised to royal rank under Ashot, i. 342, 343, 345, 346.
Their prince, Gagik, obtains a royal crown from the Arab governor of Azerbaijan, 345, and allies himself with the Mussulmans against the Bagratids, 346.
But the alliance is broken, 348, and better relations with the Bagratids ensue, 349.
Gagik is crowned by order of the caliph, ibid.
Divergence of policy towards him on the part of the governor of Azerbaijan and of the caliph, 349.
His territories overrun by the former, 350.
Visited by John Katholikos, ibid.
The Artsruni furnish one of the three kinglets of Armenia under Ashot III., 354.
Their country experiences the first shocks of the Seljuk invasions, 356, 357, 359, and their king, Senekerim, bargains away his kingdom to the Byzantine emperor, Basil II., in return for a retreat in the Greek Empire, 357.
Extent of the ceded dominions, ibid.
Significance of the event, 359, ii. 77–78
Artsruni, Thomas, historian, i. 340 note 1; ii. 131 note 2
Artsruni, ——, his ascent of Little Ararat, i. 199
Artvin, town and valley of, i. 430, 443
Artze (Artsn, Arzen, Erzen), unfortified town in the vicinity of Erzerum, ii. 223;
may have been called Artze of Rum to distinguish it from an Artze in Southern Kurdistan, ibid. note 6.
Sacked by the Seljuks in 1049, i. 358
Arzanene (Arrhene), a country comprised in the present vilayet of Diarbekr, ii. 41
Arzasku, site unknown, capital of Arame, king of Urardhu, ii. 59
Arzen, see Artze