History of Armenia, by Father Michael Chamich; from B. C. 2247 to ...

HISTORY OF ARMENIA. 379
the property of his victims and to seize all their
families: this was executed. Among the captives
was a boy four years of age, named Vahan,
the son of Khosrove chief of Golthen, who in
the course of time was martyr d: a girl of the
name of Susan, daughter of Vahaii the Camsaracan,
also fell into their han^s, and being
tortured by them in consequence of her religion,
perished in Charran. Sumbat, the late gover- ^akJ°^"
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nor and a few other chiefs, to avoid failing
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into the power of Cashm, fled into the country of
the Egerians, which was under the power of the
Greeks. Here, instead of being received with
kindness and assisted,
contempt.
they were treated with
This irritating them, they plundered
the city in which they had taken refuge, and
robbed the churches that were in it, and carried
off their spoil into Armenia. The Greeks,
incensed at their impiety in laying hands on the
church, published an anathema which was read
annually on Easter-day.
In the fourteenth year of the government a. p. 717.
of Cashm, he was superseded by Vilth, by
order of Omar then Caliph of Damascus. From
this period, to the reign of the Bagratians, our
country continued to be governed by individuals
sent by the Caliph.
These governors, contrary
to the will of their master, continued to oppress
the Armenians with little
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intermission of rest;
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