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Vasil Dgha

Vasil Dgha

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Vasil Dgha, or Dgha Vasil (dgha meaning "child, boy"), was the Armenian ruler of Raban and Kaisun. He succeeded his adoptive father, Kogh Vasil, in 1112.[1] Baldwin II, Count of Edessa, tortured Vasil to force him to abandon his domains in 1116.[2][3][4] Vasil settled in Constantinople.[2][3]

References

  1. [1]
    Runciman 1989, p. 124.
  2. [2]
    MacEvitt 2010, p. 87.
  3. [3]
    Runciman 1989, p. 129.
  4. [4]
    Fink 1969, p. 405.

Sources

  • Fink, Harold S. (1969). "The Foundation of the Latin States, 1099–1118". In Setton, Kenneth M.; Baldwin, Marshall W. (eds.). A History of the Crusades, Volume One: The First Hundred Years. The University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 368–409. ISBN 978-1-58684-251-2.
  • MacEvitt, Christopher (2010). The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4050-4.
  • Runciman, Steven (1989). A History of the Crusades, Volume II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-06162-8.
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