Editing History of Armenia (section)

===Seljuq Armenia===
{{Main|Seljuq Empire}}
{{see also|Battle of Manzikert}}
[[File:Canon tables from the Haghbat Gospels; 1211 (Yerevan, Matendaran, MS 6288, fols. 8v–9r.jpg|thumb|Canon tables from the Haghbat Gospels, created in the [[Haghpat Monastery]]; 1211 (Matendaran, MS 6288, fols. 8v–9r).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eastmond |first1=Antony |title=Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia |date=2017 |doi=10.1017/9781316711774 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn= 9781316711774}}</ref>]]
Although the native Bagratuni dynasty was founded under favourable circumstances, the feudal system gradually weakened the country by eroding loyalty to the central government. Thus internally enfeebled, Armenia proved an easy victim for the Byzantines, who captured Ani in 1045. The [[Seljuk dynasty]] under [[Alp Arslan]] in turn took the city in 1064.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://historymedren.about.com/od/aentries/a/11_alparslan.htm |title=Alp Arslan |access-date=6 February 2007 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001121/http://historymedren.about.com/od/aentries/a/11_alparslan.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1071, after the defeat of the Byzantine forces by the Seljuk Turks at the [[Battle of Manzikert]], the Turks captured the rest of Greater Armenia and much of [[Anatolia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Byzantium/byz_6.html|title=Byzantium and Its Influence on Neighboring Peoples|access-date=8 February 2007}}</ref> So ended Christian leadership of Armenia for the next millennium with the exception of a period of the late 12th-early 13th centuries, when the Muslim power in Greater Armenia was seriously troubled by the resurgent [[Kingdom of Georgia]]. Many local nobles (''nakharars'') joined their efforts with the [[Georgians]], leading to liberation of several areas in northern Armenia, which was ruled, under the authority of the Georgian crown, by the [[Zakarids-Mkhargrzeli]], a prominent Armeno-Georgian noble family.