Ashot

Ashot or Ashod (Armenian: Աշոտ) is an Armenian given name.[1] Notable persons with that surname include:

Kings of the Bagratuni dynasty

  • Ashot Msaker (Ashot the Carnivorous) (died 826)
  • Ashot I of Armenia (Ashot the Great), ruled 884–890
  • Ashot II, Ashot Yerkat (Ashot the Iron), 915–930
  • Ashot III, Voghormats (Ashot the Merciful) 953–977
  • Ashot IV, Qadj (Ashot the Brave), 1021–1039/1040

Kings of Tao-Klarjeti

  • Ashot I of Iberia (Ashot I Kuropalates) (died 830), King of Tao-Klarjeti
  • Ashot II of Tao Kuropalates, King of Tao-Klarjeti 937–954
  • Ashot the Immature (Kukhi), Eristavt Eristavi (died 918), King of Tao-Klarjeti

Kings of Vaspurakan

  • Ashot-Sahak of Vaspurakan
  • Derenik-Ashot of Vaspurakan

Other people

  • Ashot ibn Shavur, Shaddadid ruler of Arran in 1068–69
  • Ashot Yegisaryan (born 1965), deputy of the State Duma of Russia
  • Ashot Danielyan (born 1974), Armenian weightlifter
  • Ashot Khachatryan (born 1959), Armenian football defender
  • Ashot Anastasian (born 1964), Armenian chess grandmaster
  • Ashot Melikjanyan (1952–2001), Soviet Armenian actor
  • Ashot Nadanian (born 1972), Armenian chess player
  • Ashot Navasardyan (1950–1997), Armenian politician, founder of the Republican Party of Armenia
  • Ashot Zorian (1905–1970), Turkish-born Egyptian painter and educator of Armenian ethnicity

References

  1. ^ "Ашот". Словарь личных имен (in Russian).
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