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

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392 HISTORY OF ARMENIA.<br />

fighting and plundering, sometimes the Saracens<br />

were successful, at other times the <strong>Armenia</strong>ns.<br />

CHAPTER XXI.<br />

The pcinod between the governments <strong>of</strong> Ezit the<br />

Second and Abuseth, cnid betiveen the pontificates<br />

<strong>of</strong> Stephen and Johannes the<br />

Fifth.<br />

A. D. 786.<br />

Ezit the Second beino- appointed governor<br />

Haican o i i c<br />

era 237. <strong>of</strong> <strong>Armenia</strong> <strong>by</strong> the Caliph <strong>of</strong> Bagdad, named<br />

Haron, marched <strong>to</strong> take possession <strong>of</strong> his government<br />

at the head <strong>of</strong> a numerous army.<br />

By<br />

means <strong>of</strong> promises, mildness, and threats <strong>of</strong> severity,<br />

he succeeded in tranquillizing the country,<br />

and all became again subject <strong>to</strong> the power<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Saracens. All the considerable chiefs<br />

whose loyalty was most doubted, he kept<br />

near his person, and <strong>to</strong> show his generosity,<br />

after having demanded and received <strong>from</strong> the<br />

people hostages for their future obedience,<br />

he set them at liberty. Some time after this,<br />

however, he began <strong>to</strong> show less kindness in his<br />

disposition, for on a visit which he made <strong>to</strong><br />

the city <strong>of</strong> Partav, he sent for the Arzrunian<br />

princes Isaac and Hamazasp, and cruelly mar-<br />

A. D. 787. tyrefi them. He then harrassed the nation<br />

Haican<br />

era 236.<br />

J<br />

^^y laying enormous taxes on them. These

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