Chorsa, see Kars
Chosroes, Arsakid king of Armenia, i. 286–288
Chosroes the Little, Arsakid king of Armenia, i. 301 note, 302
Chunak, pseudo-katholikos, i. 309, 310
Cilicia, mountainous district of Asia Minor. After the Seljuk conquest of Armenia some Armenian emigrants founded a kingdom in these mountains, i. 367,
which endured for almost 300 years, ibid.
These colonists resisted the spiritual guidance of the Roman popes, ibid.;
but as friends of the Crusaders they were at length overwhelmed by the Turks, ibid.
Their descendants still maintain themselves in the district, ibid., and ii. 427.
Status of the katholikos of Sis, i. 276
Circassians, immigrants into Turkish Armenia, ii. 340, 341.
List of their villages, 340.
Characteristics, ii. 331, 332, 353, 354, 356, 357, 359
Clayton, Major, British Consul at Van, ii. 62, 313, 388
Cole, Mr. R. M., American missionary at Bitlis, ii. 154
Comneni, distinguished Greek family, perhaps of Italian origin, i. 35;
called to the throne of the Byzantine Empire, ibid.;
their tragic overthrow, ibid.;
furnish a line of emperors of the Black Sea coasts, ibid.
See Grand-Comneni
Constantine the Great, Byzantine Emperor, i. 293 note 1, 300