id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
alusur-12725	Leube, Georg	Mkrtičʻ Nałaš: An Armenian Bishop as Pillar of the Aqquyunlu State? : Synchronisms in the Armenian and Aqquyunlu History of Diyarbakır, 1430–1450 CE	2025	32	.pdf	application/pdf	16854	810	58	To bridge this gap, the present contribution examines three pivotal moments in the tenure of the Armenian bishop, painter, and poet Mkrtičʻ Nałaš (d. after 1469 CE) in Diyarbakır to argue that his career was inextricably entangled with the trajectory of the Aqquyunlu “Turkmen” rulers who were establishing Diyarbakır as a regional center at the time. Accordingly, I suggest that we should see the processes of Aqquyunlu state formation as including members of the Armenian clerical elite such as Mkrtičʻ Nałaš.	cache/alusur-12725.pdf	txt/alusur-12725.txt