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Mushegh VI Mamikonian

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Mushegh VI Mamikonian (Armenian: Մուշեղ Զ Մամիկոնյան; died 25 April 775) was an Armenian noble of the Mamikonian family. He served as presiding prince of Arab-ruled Armenia in 748–753, and later participated in the Armenian rebellion of 774–775 against the Abbasid Caliphate, being killed in the Battle of Bagrevand.

Sources

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  • Dadoyan, Seta B. (2011). The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: The Arab Period in Arminiyah, Seventh to Eleventh Centuries. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9781412846523.
  • Grousset, René (1973). Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071 (in French). Paris: Payot.
  • Laurent, Joseph L. (1919). L'Arménie entre Byzance et l'Islam: depuis la conquête arabe jusqu'en 886 (in French). Paris: De Boccard.
Preceded by Presiding prince of Armenia
under Umayyad and then Abbasid suzerainty

748–753
Succeeded by