Laman pembuka salinan manuskrip tahun 1664 Sejarah Armenia karya Kirikos (Matenadaran MS 2561)[1]
Kirakos Gandzaketsi (bahasa Armenia: Կիրակոս Գանձակեցի, translit. Kirakos Gandzaketsi) (s. 1200/1202–1271) adalah seorang sejarawan Armenia pada abad ke-13[2][3][4][5] dan penulis Sejarah Armenia, sebuah penjelasan peristiwa dari abad ke-4 dan ke-12 dan deskripsi mendetil dariperistiwa pada masanya.[1] Karyanya utamanya terkonsentrasi pada Armenia abad pertengahan dan peristiwa yang terjad di Kaukasus dan Timur Dekat. Karya tersebut dijadikan sumber utama untuk kajian invasi Mongol dan bahkan berisi dafftar kata pertama yang tercatat dari bahasa Mongolia.[6] Karya tersebut diterjemahkan ke dalam beberapa bahasa yang meliputi bahasa Latin, bahasa Prancis dan bahasa Rusia.[7]
^Steven Runciman. A History of the Crusades. — Cambridge University Press, 1987. — Vol. I. — P. 335"Later Armenian chroniclers, such as Samuel of Ani and Mekhitar of Airavanq, writing at the end of the twelfth century, and Kirakos Gandzaketsi and Vartan the Great, in the thirteenth century, treat only briefly of the First Crusade."
^René Grousset. The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia. — Rutgers University Press, 1970. — P. 282"Mongka gave a warm welcome to this faithful vassal and handed him a yarligh of diploma of investiture and protection, "a diploma", says the Armenian chronicle of Kirakos, "bearing his seal and explicitly forbidding any action against the person or states of Hethum. He also gave him a charter enfranchizing churches everywhere." Another Armenian historian, the monk "Hayton", in his Flor des extoires d'Orient, states in addition that Mongka gave his visitor an assurance that a great Mongol army under his brother, Hulagu khan, would attack Baghdad; destroy the caliphate, their "mortal enemy"; and restore the Holy Land to the Christians."
^S. Peter Cowe. Kirakos Ganjakec'i or Arewelc'i // Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History / Edited by David Thomas & Alex Mallet. — BRILL, 2012. —vol. IV. — p. 438:"Kirakos is one of the most important Armenian historians of the 13th century. He was born in the region of Ganja and received his early formation at the monastic school of Nor Getik under the eminent savant Vanakan Vardapet."
^Zgusta, Ladislav, Franz J. Hausmann and Oskar Reichmann (eds.). An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991, p. 2368. ISBN3-11-012421-1.
^Hacikyan, Agop Jack; Basmajian, Gabriel; Franchuk, Edward S. (2005). The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Modern Times, vol. 3. Detroit: Wayne State University. hlm. 494. ISBN0-8143-3221-8.
