Basil’s expansionist policy, having fueled the annexation…
1022 CE
Basil’s expansionist policy, having fueled the annexation of the possessions of David of Tao in 1000, finally extinguishes Armenian independence, after King Seneqerim-Hovhannes Artsruni of Vaspurakan (Van) in ceding his dominions to the emperor in 1021-22, hands over his entire kingdom in exchange for vast domains in Sebasteia, where he and fourteen thousand of his retainers settle; and …