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Title: Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gaidzakian, Ohan, 1837-1914. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, B. H. Aznive
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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usion to his name. This device was hence-forth adopted by the Armenian Kings in lieu of the ancientdesign of the eagle, pigeon and dragon.^ But we have anticipated the grand event which, in somemeasure, renders memorable this era in the history of theCilician kingdom of Armenia. This was its temporary connec-tion with the Crusades. While the new sovereignty on thewest of Asia Minor was struggHng into and for existence, firstwith Greeks, and then again with Persians, a new enterprisewas rousing to its inmost depths the heart of the nations ofChristian Europe. This was the conception of a grand Cru-sade, whose object should be to wrest Palestine and Jerusalem,and Constantinople as well, from the grasp of the infidel. It was true that at this stage the deliverance of Constanti-nople was only prospective, as it was not yet in the hands of theadvancing foe. But it was easily seen that, with the Turkishcamp already pitched on the eastern shore of the Bosphorus, ♦Camicli, vol. ii, pp. 215.
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AND THE ARMENIANS. 65 this could only be a question of time. Peter the Hermit, ladenwith the benediction of Urban IL, and supported by a countlesshost of warriors, bearing on their breasts or shoulders the signof the Red Cross, was now at Constantinople, on the way todeliver Jerusalem. Under the leadership of Godfrey ofBouillon this motley group had made its way to this, its firstfriendly resting-place and object of succor. Crossing into AsiaMinor, it had found itself in the horrors of famine and pesti-lence. The Armenians, both of eastern and western Asia, sentabundant supplies, and by their seasonable services earned thegratitude of the leaders of the Crusade. The same friendlvspirit was shown also in the case of the second Crusade. Onthe capture of Jerusalem in 1099 the leader of the first Crusadesent the Armenian prince, Constantine, valuable presents, cre-ated him a marquis, and conferred on him the honor of knight-hood. Amid the turmoil of Saracen conquest, in honor of thefounde

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