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The Death of an Armenian King: Gagik II and the Fall of the Bagratid Kingdom
In 1045, the last Bagratid king of Armenia, Gagik II, was lured to Constantinople under a promise of safe passage, only to be imprisoned and forced to abdicate. This episode traces the final years of the Bagratid dynasty: the internal power struggles among the nakharar nobility, the devastating Seljuk raids that pushed Byzantium to act, and the fateful decision of the Armenian Church to side with Constantinople over its own king. We explore Gagik's later life in exile, his brief return to power in Cappadocia, and the mysterious circumstances of his assassination around 1079. The episode…
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