Gregory of Akner (Armenian: Գրիգոր Ակներցին) or Grigor Aknertsi, Grigor Akants, Akanc was a thirteenth-century
Armenian
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* Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent
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historian and author. He is best known for his valuable work, the ''History of the Nation of the Archers'', which is an important source for the
Mongol conquest of the Near East and the period of Mongol rule in Armenia. It is the only work of Armenian literature of which the original manuscript has survived to the present day.
Gregory moved from
Eastern Armenia
Eastern Armenia ( hy, Արևելյան Հայաստան ''Arevelyan Hayastan'') comprises the eastern part of the Armenian Highlands, the traditional homeland of the Armenian people. Between the 4th and the 20th centuries, Armenia was partitioned ...
to
Cilicia
Cilicia (); el, Κιλικία, ''Kilikía''; Middle Persian: ''klkyʾy'' (''Klikiyā''); Parthian: ''kylkyʾ'' (''Kilikiyā''); tr, Kilikya). is a geographical region in southern Anatolia in Turkey, extending inland from the northeastern coa ...
in the years of 1265 or 1266, where he joined the
Akner monastery
Akner monastery (, Akner vank') is a destroyed Armenian monastery near the Eğner village of Adana province of modern Turkey.
Etymology
The monastery was known by different names:
# Akner () (or Aknaghbyur) both in Old Armenian Language mean "''b ...
.
His work was edited and published with an English translation by Robert P. Blake and Richard N. Frye in 1949.
A new English translation by Robert Bedrosian appeared in 2003.
References
External links
Grigor Aknerts'i's - History of the Nation of Archers
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13th-century Armenian historians
People of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia