Ashot Msaker

[1][2] Following the battle, Ashot fled from the family's traditional lands in eastern Armenia north to his relatives near the sources of the Araxes river, where he was further from Arab power and closer to the Byzantine Empire.[5][6] As a result, in c. 806, Caliph Harun al-Rashid chose Ashot as the new presiding prince of Armenia, restoring the office that had lapsed with his father's death thirty years previously.[8][4] Taking advantage of the turmoil in the Caliphate after the death of Harun al-Rashid in 809 and during the ensuing civil war, Ashot was able to greatly expand his lands and authority.In the process he gained not only Taron (which Jahhaf had seized from another Bagratid, Vasak) and Arsharunik with Shirak (which he had earlier bought from the Kamsarakans), but also Ashotz, and eastern Tayk.[13] By the time of his death in 826, Ashot had effected a remarkable transformation in his fortunes: as Joseph Laurent comments, the "proscribed and dispossessed" fugitive of Bagrevand died as the "most powerful and most popular prince of Armenia".
ArmenianBagratidfailed uprising in 775Arab rule in ArmeniaAbbasid CaliphateSmbat VIIArab-ruled ArmeniaBattle of BagrevandAraxesByzantine EmpireKamsarakanBagaranAyraratnakhararArtsruniVaspurakanHarun al-Rashidanother Bagratid branchAshot I CuropalatesprincesCaucasian Iberiacivil warMamikonianMushegh VI MamikonianArsharunikShirakBardaaBagrat II Bagratuniishkhan ishkhanatsSmbat VIII the ConfessorsparapetDadoyan, Seta B.Ter-Ghewondyan, AramNina G. GarsoïanWhittow, MarkSmbat VII BagratuniArmeniaAbbasid