Բագրատունիները եւ վրացական թագաւորութեան պետական գաղափարաբանութեան ձեւաւորումը
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2013
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After the suppression of the anti-caliphate revolts in Armenia in 774-775, the rebel Bagratids fled and settled in the western area of Gugark Province of Mets Hayk, Keghardjk.
The area they settled, however, had a mostly Armenian-Chalcedonic character. The Bagratids gradually integrated and, as of the early 9th century, during reign of the Curopalate Ashot Bagratuni, they initiated an extensive church construction and renovations policy in Keghardjk.
During the first half of the 9t century the Keghardjk Curopalats tried to extend their political domination to Georgia but failed. This failure shifted their strategy of state domination from military means to ideological and religious means, due to which a new definition of the Georgian Kingdom was developed. It proclaimed: "Georgia constitutes all lands where church services and all prayers are conducted in the Georgian language".
Interestingly, this conceptualisation enabled the gradual extension of the spiritual power of the Keghardjk Bagratunis towards the east, namely to Georgia (Kartli).
As in the late gth century Keghardjk was a part of the Kingdom of the Armenian Bagratunis, the Bagratuni Curopalate of Keghardjk, Atrnerseh, obtained from King Smbat I of Armenia the title "King of the Georgians", which meant he was king of the Chalcedonic population of Georgia.
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Եղիազարեան, Ն., «Բագրատունիները եւ վրացական թագաւորութեան պետական գաղափարաբանութեան ձեւաւորումը», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2013, Պէյրութ, էջ 67-82