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Vahan Mamikonian
Վահան Մամիկոնեան
Modern artistic portrayal of Vahan
Marzban of Persian Armenia
In office
485–503/510
MonarchKavadh I
Preceded byShapur of Ray
Succeeded byVard Mamikonian
Personal details
Born440-445
Marzpanate Armenia
Died503-510
Marzpanate Armenia

Vahan Mamikonian (Armenian: Վահան Մամիկոնեան; c. 440/445 – 503/510) was an Armenian nobleman from the Mamikonian family. In 481 he rebelled against the Sasanian Empire that controlled the eastern part of Armenia known as Persian Armenia. He was appointed as marzban (governor) of Persian Armenia in 485 and remained in that post until his death around 503-510.

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509/514. Vard Mamikonian was the third son of Hmayeak Mamikonian and Dzoyk Artsruni. He had an elder brother named Vahan I Mamikonian including two other...

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(also spelled Nuarsak) was signed between the Armenian rebel leader Vahan Mamikonian and the representatives of the Sasanian King of Kings (shahanshah)...

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led by Vahan I Mamikonian and Sahak II. Vahan and Sahak managed to defeat the marzban Adhur Gushnasp, and Sahak was shortly declared by Vahan and the...

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following the battle, led by Vardan's successor and nephew, Vahan Mamikonian. In 484, Sahag Bedros I signed the Nvarsak Treaty, which guaranteed religious freedom...

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Zarmihr Hazarwuxt

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Armenians, and a revolt broke out in Persian Armenia, led by Vahan I Mamikonian. Peroz I then sent another commander named Zarmihr Hazarwuxt, who laid...

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Peroz I

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out in the western provinces of Armenia and Iberia, led by Vahan Mamikonian and Vakhtang I respectively. Before Peroz could quell the unrest there, he...

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Ghazar Parpetsi

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education. Studying under the auspices of Aghan Artstruni, he befriended Vahan Mamikonian; he was an excellent student and from 465 to 470 he attended school...

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481

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until 484. Led by Vahan Mamikonian, nephew of the late Vartan, they obtain religious and political freedom in return for military aid. Vahan is installed as...

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Khosrov III the Small

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in a battle near Oshakan. Khosrov rewarded his top generals Vache Mamikonian and Vahan Amatuni and the other nakharars that had remained loyal to him with...

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Vakhtang I of Iberia

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co-operation. After some hesitation, the Armenians under Vardan's nephew Vahan Mamikonian, joined forces with Vakhtang. The allies were routed and Iberia was...

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election, rebelled. Balash was thus forced to make peace with his enemy Vahan Mamikonian and sent him at the head of an army to suppress the rebellion of Zarer...

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shah Kavadh I appointed him as the marzban of Armenia in 518. According to Samuel Anetsi: "after the patrician Vard Mamikonian, brother of Vahan, the Persian...

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BC–681 BC). It mirrors the Bagratuni claim of Davidic descent and the Mamikonian claim of descent from the royal Han dynasty and is usually interpreted...

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Vasak Mamikonian won a number of victories over Persian armies (which were joined by Armenian forces led by the renegades Meruzhan Artsruni and Vahan Mamikonian...

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religion; he gave his daughter Hormizddukht in marriage to a Mamikonian prince named Vahan. Hormizd's rock relief at Naqsh-e Rostam in the Pars province...

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