Arkina (Armenian: Արկինա) was a small village in Medieval Armenia within the Shirak district and near the city of Ani.
[1][2][3][4] Arkina is best known for being the temporary seat of the Catholicosate after Ananias I of Armenia moved it from Vaspurakan in 959.
[5][3] His predecessors lived on Agtamar Island but he found it better to seek protection under Ani's king and to establish himself on the mainland.
[5][6] Arkina had a fortress and perhaps a cathedral, whose ruins are just west of the Tiknis border in present-day Turkey.
[3][7] It would likely have been built by Katholikos Khatchik between 972 and 992; its remaining wall was damaged in a 1966 earthquake.