HISTORICAL: Earliest History—Ethnological Characteristics—Supposed
Relation to lost Tribes of Israel—Tiridates and
St. Gregory—Introduction of Christianity among
the Plain-dwellers—Animal Sacrifices—Monophysite
Doctrine—Mass—Ignorance and Bigotry of
Clergy—Mountaineers remaining Pagans—Decline of the
Kingdom—Seljuk Invasion—Mountaineers converted to
Islam—Lesser Armenia—Incorporation in Ottoman Empire 9