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Tanuter

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Tanuter (Old Armenian: տանուտէր, literally house + lord) was the head of an Armenian nakharar house in ancient and medieval Armenia; the term is equivalent to the Persian arbab.[1] Prior to the Russian annexation of Eastern Armenia in 1828, the village headmen of a melikdom carried the title.

References

  1. ^ Bournoutian, George (2018-05-15). Armenia and Imperial Decline: The Yerevan Province, 1900-1914. Routledge. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-351-06260-2.