Armenian Historical Sources

5th Century

P'awstos Buzandac'i's History of the Armenians
Ghazar P'arbec'i's History of the Armenians

7th Century

Anonymous The Primary History of Armenia or History of the Ancestors
Sebeos' History

8th Century

Ghewond's History

10th Century

John Mamikonean's History of Taron

11th Century

Aristakes Lastivertc'i's History

12-13th Century

The Georgian Chronicle
Mkhitar Gosh's Fables (belles lettres), and Index to the Fables
Mkhitar Gosh's Colophon or The Aghuanian Chronicle

13th Century

Kirakos Gandzakets'i's History of the Armenians
Vardan Arewelts'i's Compilation of History
 [Extracts on the Saljuqs, Shaddadids, Zakarids, and Mongols]
Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle
Chronicle Attributed to King Het'um II, 1296
Grigor Aknerts'i's History of the Nation of Archers [Mongols]

14th Century

Het'um the Historian's History of the Tartars [The Flower of Histories of the East]

15th Century

T'ovma Metsobets'i's History of Tamerlane and His Successors

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