On the south he held the towns of Khelat, Ardjich and Percri, which he gave to his dutiful tributary the Moslem prince of Manzikert, whose allegiance lasted till the debacle following on Sembat the Martyr’s death; on the north he possessed the province of Gugark up to the city of Tiflis; and in the centre was his capital of Kars, and the metropolis of Dovin, the former residence of the Arab governors and the home of the Catholicus, and the Araxes plain, his title of King of Kings espressed a reality. ↑ Ayrarat — статья из Encyclopædia Iranica. R. H. Hewsen Оригинальный текст (англ.) During the almost 250 years of Arab rule in Armenia (7th-9th cents.), the Bagratids gradually assumed the paramount position among the surviving Armenian princes and ca.