THE THIRD CRUSADE AND CILICIAN ARMENIA
Abstract
The article covers the political position of Cilician Armenia in the state of confrontation of the Third Crusade participants and the Ayyubid sultanate (1190). Due to the flexible policy, that was held by the Prince Levon II (in 1198 he was crowned as king Levon I) and catholicos Gregory IV, they succeeded not only to evade clashes with those two strong powers, but also enlarged the territory of the Armenian princedom. A crucial role in that situation played the letters of catholicos Gregory IV sent to Frederick I Barbarossa and to Salah al-Din. In this article a comparative overview of different approaches of the scholars is made regarding that correspondence, as well as the investigation and comparative analysis of Arab medieval sources is presented.
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V. A. Ter-GhevondianRussian Federation
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For citations:
Ter-Ghevondian V.A. THE THIRD CRUSADE AND CILICIAN ARMENIA. Humanities and law research. 2017;(1):129-134. (In Russ.)