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The Kingdom of Lesser Armenia
AD 56 - c.60
Lesser (or Little) Armenia was created out of the western section of Armenia during the
divisions caused by the war between Rome
and Parthian Persia in AD 56.
Tiridates, a Parthian prince, was placed on the throne without Rome's
agreement, and Rome and Persia went to war over the matter. As a result, Armenia was
divided into Armenia,
Armenia Sophene and Lesser Armenia. |
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The Kingdom of Lesser Armenia (Erzindjan)
AD 1080 - 1375
With the Mongol invasion of mid-eleventh century Armenia, a number of Armenians, led by Prince
Reuben, were pushed westwards. In 1080 they established in Cilicia the state
of Lesser Armenia,
centered on Tarsus, north of Norman-controlled Antioch
and west of Edessa. Lesser Armenia established very close ties with the
Crusader States. It was still threatened by Byzantium, however, and
appears to have come under Byzantine overlordship for short periods.
Cilicia (pr. silish) is an ancient region of south-eastern Asia Minor, in present Southern
Turkey, between the Mediterranean and the Taurus range. It included a high and barren plateau,
Cilicia Trachia or Cilicia Tracheia, and a fertile plain, Cilicia Pedias.
(The main list is backed up with one that gives further
names, but they are poorly dated. These additional names may not have been reigning kings,
but were numbered as members of the dynasty. They may have been co-regents.) |
1098 - 1099 |
Lesser
Armenia is declared a kingdom as the
Crusader states are established along its
eastern and southern borders. For much of its existence it appears to be
subject to Byzantine overlordship. King Constantine I, probably as part of
an effort to cement ties with the new states around him, marries one of his
daughters to Joscelin I, Count of Edessa. |
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