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ANI (anc. Abnicum)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 47 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANI (anc. Abnicum) , an ancient and ruined Armenian city, in
Russian
  Transcaucasia, government
Erivan
 , situated at an altitude of 4390 ft., between the Arpa-chai (Harpasus) and a deep ravine. In 961 it became the
capital
  of the Bagratid kings of Armenia, and when yielded to the Byzantine emperor (1046) it . was a populous city, known traditionally as the " city with the
tool
  churches." It was taken eighteen years later by the Seljuk Turks, five times by the Georgians between 1125 and 1209, in 1239 by the Mongols, and its ruin was completed by an earth-quake in 1319. It is still surrounded by a
double
 
wall
  partly in ruins, and amongst the remains are a " patriarchal "
church
  finished in Ioto, two other churches, both of the 11th
century
 , a fourth built in 1215, and a palace of large size.
See Brosset, Les Ruines d'Ani (186o-1861).


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