Nicholas Adontz

Nicholas Adontz was an Armenian historian, specialist of Byzantine and Armenian studies, and philologist. Adontz was the author of the Armenia in the Period of Justinian, a highly influential work and landmark study on the social and political structures of early Medieval Armenia.

Adontz was born Nikoghayos TerAvetikyan in the village of Brnakot in Sisian, which was then part of the Zangezur uezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate . His family traced its roots to an eighteenthcentury Armenian military figure and close ally of David Bek named TerAvetik. He graduated from a parochial school in Tatev and later studied at the Gevorkian Theological Seminary in Echmiadzin and the Russian gymnasium in Tbilisi .

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