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John the Armenian was a Byzantine official and military leader of Armenian origin. There is no written account of his physical appearance or confirmation of the year he was born. John served as financial manager of the campaign and was a close friend of Belisarius. He was killed during the Vandalic War in 533. [1]
Venerable John the Hermit began his ascetic life at a young age according to records. He was born in the fourth century in Armenia to Juliana, a devout Eastern Orthodox Christian mother. John was the spiritual son of St. Pharmutius who discipled him for a time.
Some Armenian last names bear the suffix -նց ([nʦʰ]), which is a plural genitive suffix, transliterated as -nc, -nts or -ntz (as in Bakunts or Adontz), or in addition to -yan/-ian (as in Parajaniants). This is not common, although it used to be more widespread in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Saint John the Baptist Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Հովհաննես Մկրտիչ Եկեղեցի, Surp Hovhannes Mkrtich) is an active church in the old area of Kond, Yerevan, Armenia. First, it was built on the height of Kond district, in 1710, in the place of a medieval church ruined as the result of a 1689 earthquake.
In 1891 John Buchan Telfer reported to the Royal Society of Arts several Byzantine emperors of Armenian origin, including Maurice and John Tzimiskes. [8]The first work on Byzantine emperors of Armenian origin, Armenian Emperors of Byzantium (Armenian: Հայ կայսերք Բիւզանդիոնի), was authored by Fr. Garabed Der-Sahagian and published in 1905 by the Mekhitarist congregation of ...
Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi (Armenian: Յովհաննէս Դրասխանակերտցի, John of Drasxanakert, various spellings exist), also called John V the Historian, was Catholicos of Armenia from 897 to 925, and a noted chronicler and historian. He is known for his History of Armenia. [1]
Mkrtich (Eastern Armenian pronunciation, pronounced Mgrdich in Western Armenian; [1] Armenian: Մկրտիչ) is an Armenian male given name, meaning Baptist in Armenian. [2] The name refers originally to John the Baptist, known as Surb Hovhannes Mkrtich (Saint-John the Baptist) in Armenian. [3]
John Sahaky Kirakosyan (Armenian: Ջոն Սահակի Կիրակոսյան; May 6, 1929 – June 20, 1985) was a Soviet Armenian Foreign Minister from 1975 until his death. He was also a historian and political scientist who was a Doctor of Historical Sciences and a professor at Yerevan State University , where he headed the Faculty of Oriental ...