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 HISTORY OF ARMENIA.

��hte was recalled by the Caliph after two years, ^P;J^' and replaced by Isaac the Bagratian the son «»209. of Bagarat. He was a man of singular piety, and governed the nation with the most paternal mildness. He was celebrated for the beauty of his person, few of his contemporaries pos- sessing such a majestic figure and handsome countenance.

During his government a number of depre*- dators made incursions into the province of Vaspurakan from Persia. They were opposed by the two brothers Isaac and Hamazasp the princes of the Arzrunians, who in an encounter with them, both fell after killing numbers of the plunderers. It appears that Hamazasp received a severe wound and fell from his horse, and then being surrounded was soon dispatched^ This sight deeply affecting his brother Isaac, he rushed impetuously, on the murderers, and after revenging the death of Hamazasp by the daughter of a great number, was assailed from behind by a blow which killed him on the spot.

When Gagik the youngest brother of Isaac h;P;^^** and Hamazasp, heard of their deaths, he as- erm2io, sembled a large force, and marching with it to that part of Persia whence the plunderers had originally come, he burnt and otherwise destroyed a number of places, besides killing a great number of people. After having well

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