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[[Image:Queen Keran Gospel, 1272.jpg|thumb|[[Leo II of Armenia|Leo II]] and Queen [[Queen Keran of Armenia|Guerane]]. Armenian manuscript of Queen Keran gospel, 1272]]

[[File:Ptolemy Cosmographia 1467 - Central Europe.jpg|thumb|[[Ptolemy]], ''Cosmographia'' (1467)]]

In 885 CE the Armenians reestablished themselves as a sovereign kingdom under the leadership of [[Ashot I of Armenia|Ashot I]] of the [[Bagratuni Dynasty|Bagratid Dynasty]]. A considerable portion of the Armenian nobility and peasantry fled the Byzantine occupation of Bagratid Armenia in 1045, and the subsequent invasion of the region by [[Seljuk Turks]] in 1064. They settled in large numbers in [[Cilicia]], an Anatolian region where Armenians were already established as a minority since Roman times. In 1080, they founded an independent [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia|Armenian Principality then Kingdom of Cilicia]], which became the focus of Armenian nationalism. The Armenians developed close social, cultural, military, and religious ties with nearby [[Crusader States]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hodgson|first1=Natasha|editor1-last=Kostick|editor1-first=Conor|title=The Crusades and the Near East: Cultural Histories|date=2010 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1136902475|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HAPGBQAAQBAJ|access-date=14 September 2015|url-status=live|archive-date=18 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018194514/https://books.google.com/books?id=HAPGBQAAQBAJ}}</ref> but eventually succumbed to [[Mamluk]] invasions. In the next few centuries, [[Djenghis Khan]], [[Timurids]], and the tribal Turkic federations of the [[Ak Koyunlu]] and the [[Kara Koyunlu]] ruled over the Armenians.