DATE AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE FORMATION OF KARS KINGDOM

Abstract

Formation of the Kars kingdom took place in the middle of 970s, when Mushegh, the
Prince of Kars city, took advantage of the Byzantine movement to the western regions of
Armenia and proclaimed himself king, ruled for nine-ten years and died in 984. The kingdom
of Kars included the western part of Ararat region of the Greater Armenia: the territories
between provinces of Shirak and Tchakatk in the east to the Taik and Karin provinces in the
west, and from the Childir lake in the north to the Bagrevand province in the south