Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Анійскае царства" in Belarusian language version.
The election of Smbat’s son Ashot I the Great, who had been accepted as “prince of princes” by the Arabs in 862, to be king of Armenia in 885 was recognized by both the caliph and the Byzantine emperor, and it was he who by his successful defense of his country against local Arab chieftains laid the foundations of a new golden age of Armenian history.
The election by the nobles of Smbat’s son Ashot I (the Great), who had been accepted as "prince of princes" by the Arabs in 862, to be king of Armenia in 885 was recognized by both caliph and emperor. Throughout the 10th century, art and literature flourished. Ashot III (the Merciful; 952—977) transferred his capital to Ani and began to make it into one of the architectural gems of the Middle Ages.
The Bagratids of Ani—who bore the title shāhanshāh ("king of kings"), first conferred upon Ashot II (the Iron) by the caliph in 922—were not the sole rulers of Armenia. In 908 the Artsruni principate of Vaspurakan became a kingdom recognized by the caliph; in 961 Mushegh, the brother of Ashot III, founded the Bagratid kingdom of Kars; and in 970 the prince of Eastern Siuniq declared himself a king.
But in 247/861-62 the caliph recognized as supreme prince in these regions the Bagratuni Ašot I (Arabic, Ašūṭ), who in 272/886 received the title of king.
During the almost 250 years of Arab rule in Armenia (7th-9th cents.), the Bagratids gradually assumed the paramount position among the surviving Armenian princes and ca. 884 were able to establish a new monarchy in central Armenia which included all of Lower Armenia and considerably more territory in eastern Armenia as well.
Although Kʿambēčan was conquered by the Arabs in the 1st/7th century, around the turn of the 3rd/9th century it formed with Šakē (to the east) a vast territorial unit ruled by the Armenian Sembateans, vassals of the Bagratids. The population was mostly of Armenian origin and Armenian-speaking.
Правители расположенного в Правобережье Куры Хаченского княжества, придерживавшиеся монофизитства и в Х — сер. XI в. также носившие титул «царей Алуанка», находились в вассальной зависимости от арм. царства Анийских Багратидов…
