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- ↑ Steven Runciman. A History of the Crusades. — Cambridge University Press, 1987. — Vol. I. — P. 335. "Later Armenian chroniclers, such as Samuel of Ani and Mekhitar of Airavanq, writing at the end of the twelfth century, and Kirakos of Gantzag and Vartan the Great, in the thirteenth century, treat only briefly of the First Crusade."
- ↑ Hacikyan, Agop Jack (2000). The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the sixth to the Eighteenth Century. p. 344. ISBN 0-8143-3023-1.
- ↑ "Samuel of Ani (Anetsi)". The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Vol. II. London: Charles Knight. 1834. p. 363.
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