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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VahanMamikonian (Armenian: Վահան Մամիկոնեան; c. 440/445 – 503/510) was an Armenian nobleman from the Mamikonian family. In 481 he rebelled against the...
to Armenia and installed Meruzhan Artsruni and VahanMamikonian as governors (according to Pavstos, Vahan was later killed by his own son, Samuel). Vasak...
Mushegh IMamikonian (also spelled Mushel; d. 377/8) was an Armenian military officer from the Mamikonian family who occupied the hereditary office of...
509/514. Vard Mamikonian was the third son of Hmayeak Mamikonian and Dzoyk Artsruni. He had an elder brother named VahanIMamikonian including two other...
between Christians. After carefully weighing the decision, the Mamikonian prince VahanMamikonian agreed to revolt against the Sasanians. He defeated and killed...
by the Armenians, and a revolt broke out in Armenia, led by VahanIMamikonian. Peroz I, eager to avenge Varsken, sent his general Shapur Mihran to Iberia...
Hamazasp, who was the son of Mushegh II Mamikonian. However, Cyril Toumanoff considers Davith as the son of Vahan II. Historians, however, agree that Mushegh...
(also spelled Nuarsak) was signed between the Armenian rebel leader VahanMamikonian and the representatives of the Sasanian King of Kings (shahanshah)...
following the battle, led by Vardan's successor and nephew, VahanMamikonian. In 484, Sahag Bedros I signed the Nvarsak Treaty, which guaranteed religious freedom...
Armenians, and a revolt broke out in Persian Armenia, led by VahanIMamikonian. Peroz I then sent another commander named Zarmihr Hazarwuxt, who laid...
out in the western provinces of Armenia and Iberia, led by VahanMamikonian and Vakhtang I respectively. Before Peroz could quell the unrest there, he...
education. Studying under the auspices of Aghan Artstruni, he befriended VahanMamikonian; he was an excellent student and from 465 to 470 he attended school...
until 484. Led by VahanMamikonian, nephew of the late Vartan, they obtain religious and political freedom in return for military aid. Vahan is installed as...
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...
co-operation. After some hesitation, the Armenians under Vardan's nephew VahanMamikonian, joined forces with Vakhtang. The allies were routed and Iberia was...
election, rebelled. Balash was thus forced to make peace with his enemy VahanMamikonian and sent him at the head of an army to suppress the rebellion of Zarer...
capital Dvin and put to death a popular and influential member of the Mamikonian family. This execution created tremendous civil unrest and led to a revolt...
The period of Arab rule in Armenia saw the decline of the power of the Mamikonians at the same time as the Bagratunis gained in prominence, as the Muslim...
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...
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...
Ctesiphon to elect a new sovereign. This had allowed the Armenians under VahanMamikonian to proclaim independence from the Sasanians. Given the situation of...
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...
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...
body was eventually taken by Hmayeak Mamikonian, a military commander and the brother of Vardan Mamikonian, and Vahan Amatuni, Armenia's Persian-appointed...
Bagrevand in 862, shortly after the death of the ruling Mamikonian dynasty's head, Grigor Mamikonian. Ashot mediated between Grigor-Derenik Artsruni and Gurgen...