>>10138053those minor princiaplities, melikdoms and armenian offshoots were irrelevant and often under foreign influence. they are pettiest mutt excuses for a statehood
>Yea Hemshins are Muslim Armenians, just like the Laz of Turkey are Muslim Georgianslaz people are a single branch of kartvelian people who were converted because they lived on outskirts of the georgian lands. that is surely not the same as having your very own homeland depopulated from christians, turkified and all sorts of people converting to Islam.
>what isn’t common is when nobility and Kings convert to Islamtheir armenoid heritage played a part there