Kirakos Gandzaketsi

[4] He attended the school of New Getik (later known as Goshavank) in 1209-1212 in the village of Tandzut in the region of Kayen (classes were originally taught in a cave and it was only later that they relocated to a one-room building).

[10] A ransom was paid to free Vanakan in the summer of that year but Kirakos also managed to escape the same night and returned to the town of Getik.

In 1255, he was granted an audience with the leader of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, Hetum I, in the town of Vardenis (in Aragatsotn), informing him of missionary work in the region.

The second part focuses on the ramifications and physical damage inflicted against the people of the region by the Turkic and Mongol invasions, including the torture and death of Hasan-Jalal, the prince of Khachen.

He made a detailed account of the Siege of Baghdad (1258) by the Mongols, using Prince Prosh Khaghbakian, who had participated to the operations, as his main source.