Javanshir

Javanshire
Javanshire
	; A model of the 7th century statue presumably depicting Dzhevanshir in the Museum of the History of Azerbaijan in Baku (the original is kept in the Hermitage )
2nd ruler of Gardman and prince of all Caucasian Albania
	642 - 681
Predecessor	Varaz-Grigor
Successor	Varaz Trdat I
Birth	;
Death	681 ;
Rod	Mihranid
Father	Varaz-Grigor
Spouse	Khosrovanush (daughter of the prince of Synai ) ; ; Hun princess
Children

Javanshir or Javanshir ( Persian. Javān Šīr - young lion ^[4] ^[5] ? - 681) - prince of Caucasian Albania from the Mihranid dynasty , ruler of the feudal ownership of Gardman , who was a personal domain of the dynasty.

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Biography

Dzhevenshir's father, Varaz Grigor, became the first ruler of Gardman, who received the title of prince of all Albania. Javanshir himself ruled Albania in 642 - 681 years. Prior to that, for seven years he led the Albanian army in the war of the Sassanian Iran against the Arabs. According to Movses Kagankatuatsi , for the successful participation in the battle against the Arabs, the Sasanian king Yazhegerd III

He honored him above all: he was girdled with a gold belt, studded with pearls, (hung) a sword, gave him bracelets on his hands, a beautiful crown on his head, pearl headbands and many strings of pearls around her neck; dressed him in black bloomers ... and in silk woven dress with gold embroidery ^[6]

Together with the Armenian ^[7] prince Mushegh Mamikonyan and the ruler of the Armenian region Syunik Grigory in 636 , he participated in the battle against the Arabs near Kadisia on the side of the Sassanian troops.

In 660 , he formed an alliance with Byzantium against the Arab Caliphate , but already in 667 , under the threat of invasions of Arabs from the south and Khazars from the north, he recognized himself as a vassal of the Caliphate, which became a turning point in the history of the country and contributed to its Islamization . He was killed as a result of a conspiracy of major feudal lords who fought against the centralization of princely power. At the beginning of the 8th century Albania was conquered by the Caliphate, and in 705 the power of the Mihranids was abolished.

During his reign, and probably on his instructions ^[6] , the main original source on the history of Dzhevanshir was written - “ History of the Country of Aluank ” by the Armenian historian Movses Kagankatuatsi ^[8] .

Javanshir in Art

The images of Javanshir were created by such Azerbaijani artists as Kamil Khanlarov (“Javanshir against the Arab Caliphate” ^[9] for the Nizami Museum in Baku and the “Javanshir” of 1956 ^[10] ), A. Kyzymov (“The Battle of Javanshir with the Arabs”, stored in the Museum of History of Azerbaijan ). The Azerbaijani sculptor Fuad Abdurakhmanov in 1943 made a bas-relief of Dzhevanshir ^[11] . The play “Javanshir” by Azerbaijani writer Mehdi Hussein is dedicated to Jewanshir ^[12] .

Notes

↑ Bretanitsky L.S., Weimarn B.V. The Art of Azerbaijan of the IV - XVIII centuries / Editor I. A. Shkirich. - M .: Art , 1976. - p. 36. - 272 p.
↑ Trever K.V. Essays on the history and culture of Caucasian Albania IV. BC er - VII century. n e .. - M.-L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1959. - p. 314.
↑ Shaginyan A.K. Armenia and the countries of the South Caucasus under the conditions of the Byzantine-Iranian and Arabian authorities. - St. Petersburg, 2011. - p. 137.
The sudden raids of the Khazar Huns forced the Jivanshir to enter into negotiations with them, although, as Movses Kalankatuatsi assures us, the initiative came from the King (Grand Duke) the Huns himself. Meanwhile, they ended successfully and the parties, obviously, already in 665, concluded a peace treaty. According to its terms, the grand duke of the Huns returned 120 thousand sheep, 7 thousand horses and oxen, and at least 1,200 prisoners, and also gave his daughter as ruler of Altani
↑ Stephen H. Rapp. Studies in medieval Georgian historiography: Eurasian contexts. Peeters Publishers, 2003. ISBN 9042913185 . P.242
↑ Gafurov A. G. Name and history. On the names of Arabs, Persians, Tajiks and Turks. Vocabulary. - M .: Science , 1987. - 215 p. - 15 000 copies
↑ ¹ ² Trever K.V. Essays on the history and culture of Caucasian Albania IV. BC er - VII century. n e .. - M.-L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1959.
↑ Lynn Jones. Between Islam and Byzantium: Aght'amar and medieval Armenian rulership. - Ashgate Publishing, 2007. - P. 17. - 144 p. - ISBN 0754638529 , ISBN 9780754638520 .
↑ book II, chapters XVII — XXXV
↑ Miklashevskaya N. M. Formation and development of the art of socialist realism in Soviet Azerbaijan: 1920-1945. (painting, drawing, sculpture, theatrical-decorative art) . - B .: Elm, 1974. - p. 69. - 178 p.
↑ N. Habibov , D. Novruzova . Fine Art of the Azerbaijan SSR / Editor G. P. Suzdalev. - M .: Soviet artist , 1978. - 252 p.
↑ Miklashevskaya N. M. Formation and development of the art of socialist realism in Soviet Azerbaijan: 1920-1945. (painting, drawing, sculpture, theatrical-decorative art) . - B .: Elm, 1974. - p. 125. - 178 p.
↑ Hawanshire (azerb.) // Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia / Ed. J. Kuliev. - B .: The main editorial board of the Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987. - C. X. - S. 391 .

Literature

KV Trever "Essays on the history and culture of Caucasian Albania", Moscow-Leningrad, 1959.
"Questions of the history of Caucasian Albania", Baku, 1962.

Source

Movses Kagankatvatsi , "History of the country Aluank"

[1] Bretanitsky L.S., Weimarn B.V. The Art of Azerbaijan of the IV - XVIII centuries / Editor I. A. Shkirich. - M .: Art , 1976. - p. 36. - 272 p.

[2] Trever K.V. Essays on the history and culture of Caucasian Albania IV. BC er - VII century. n e .. - M.-L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1959. - p. 314.

[Шагинян-3] Shaginyan A.K. Armenia and the countries of the South Caucasus under the conditions of the Byzantine-Iranian and Arabian authorities. - St. Petersburg, 2011. - p. 137.
The sudden raids of the Khazar Huns forced the Jivanshir to enter into negotiations with them, although, as Movses Kalankatuatsi assures us, the initiative came from the King (Grand Duke) the Huns himself. Meanwhile, they ended successfully and the parties, obviously, already in 665, concluded a peace treaty. According to its terms, the grand duke of the Huns returned 120 thousand sheep, 7 thousand horses and oxen, and at least 1,200 prisoners, and also gave his daughter as ruler of Altani

[4] Stephen H. Rapp. Studies in medieval Georgian historiography: Eurasian contexts. Peeters Publishers, 2003. ISBN 9042913185 . P.242

[5] Gafurov A. G. Name and history. On the names of Arabs, Persians, Tajiks and Turks. Vocabulary. - M .: Science , 1987. - 215 p. - 15 000 copies

[Тревер-6] ¹ ² Trever K.V. Essays on the history and culture of Caucasian Albania IV. BC er - VII century. n e .. - M.-L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1959.

[7] Lynn Jones. Between Islam and Byzantium: Aght'amar and medieval Armenian rulership. - Ashgate Publishing, 2007. - P. 17. - 144 p. - ISBN 0754638529 , ISBN 9780754638520 .

[8] II, chapters XVII — XXXV

[9] Miklashevskaya N. M. Formation and development of the art of socialist realism in Soviet Azerbaijan: 1920-1945. (painting, drawing, sculpture, theatrical-decorative art) . - B .: Elm, 1974. - p. 69. - 178 p.

[10] N. Habibov , D. Novruzova . Fine Art of the Azerbaijan SSR / Editor G. P. Suzdalev. - M .: Soviet artist , 1978. - 252 p.

[Миклашевская125-11] Miklashevskaya N. M. Formation and development of the art of socialist realism in Soviet Azerbaijan: 1920-1945. (painting, drawing, sculpture, theatrical-decorative art) . - B .: Elm, 1974. - p. 125. - 178 p.

[12] Hawanshire (azerb.) // Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia / Ed. J. Kuliev. - B .: The main editorial board of the Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987. - C. X. - S. 391 .