See also:

• SIS (anc. Sision or Siskia, later Flaviopolis or Flavias)

SIS (anc. Sision or Siskia, later Flaviopolis or Flavias)  , the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• TOWN

town of the Khozan sanjak of the See also:

• ADANA

Adana vilayet of See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic See also:

• TURKEY

Turkey, situated on the See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• BANK

bank of the Kirkgen Su, a tributary of the Jihun (Pyramus) and at the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south end of a See also:

• GROUP

group of passes leading from the See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

Anti-See also:

• TAURUS (" the Bull ")

Taurus valleys to the Cilician See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain and Adana . It was besieged by the See also:

• ARABS

Arabs in 704 but relieved by the Byzantines . The See also:

• CALIPH, CALIF

Caliph, Motawakkil took it and refortified it; but it soon returned to See also:

• BYZANTINE

Byzantine hands . It was rebuilt in 1186 by See also:

• LEO
• LEO (THE LION)
• LEO, BROTHER (d. c. 1270)
• LEO, HEINRICH (1799-1878)
• LEO, JOHANNES (c. 1494-1552)
• LEO, LEONARDO (1694–1744)

Leo II., See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of Lesser See also:

• ARMENIA (old Persian Armina, Armenian Hayasdan, or Hayq)

Armenia, who made it his See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital . In 1394 it was taken and demolished by the See also:

• SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

sultan of See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt, and it has never recovered its prosperity . It is now only a big See also:

• VILLAGE

village of some 3000 inhabitants . It has had, however, a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in Armenian ecclesiastical See also:

• HISTORY

history from the times of St See also:

• GREGORY
• GREGORY (Gregorius)
• GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
• GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
• GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
• GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
• GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
• GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
• GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)

Gregory the Illuminator to our own . Gregory himself was there consecrated the first Catholicus in A.D . 267, but transferred his see to Vagarshabad (See also:

• ECHMIADZIN, or ITSMIADSIN

Echmiadzin, Etchmiadzin), whence, after the fall of the Arsacids, it passed to Tovin . After the constitution of the See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of Lesser Armenia, the catholicate returned to See also:

• SIS (anc. Sision or Siskia, later Flaviopolis or Flavias)

Sis (1294), the capital, and remained there 150 years . In 1441, Sis having fallen from its high See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate, the Armenian See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy proposed to remove the see, and on the refusal of the actual Catholicus, Gregory IX., installed a See also:

• RIVAL

rival at Echmiadzin, who, as soon as See also:

• SELIM

Selim I. had conquered Greater Armenia, became the more widely accepted of the two by the Armenian See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church in the See also:

• OTTOMAN

Ottoman See also:

• EMPIRE

empire . The Catholicus of Sis maintained himself nevertheless, and was supported in his pretensions by the See also:

• PORTE, THE SUBLIME (Arab. babi-'ali, the high gate, through the French translation la sublime porte)

Porte up to the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, when the See also:

• PATRIARCH (M.E. and O. Fr. patriarche, Lat. patriarcha, Gr. aarpuipxtis, from srarptu., clan, and apxil, rule)

patriarch Nerses, declaring finally for Echmiadzin, carried the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government with him .

In 1885 Sis tried to declare Echmiadzin schismatic, and in 1895 its clergy took it on themselves to elect a Catholicus without reference to the patriarch; but the Porte annulled the See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election, and only allowed it six years later on Sis renouncing its pretensions to See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence . The See also:

• PRESENT

present Catholicus has the right to prepare the sacred See also:

• MYRON

myron (oil) and to preside over a See also:

• SYNOD
• SYNOD (Gr. vbvobos)

synod, but is in fact not more than a See also:

• METROPOLITAN (Lat. metropolitanus, Gr. µnrpoiroXtrns)

metropolitan, and regarded by many Armenians as schismatic . The lofty See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle and the monastery and church built by Leo II., and containing the See also:

• CORONATION (Lat. corona, crown)

coronation See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of the See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings of Lesser Armenia, are interesting . (D . G .