Мelik (Armenian: մելիք, romanized: melik’, from Arabic: ملك, romanized: malik, lit. 'king') was a hereditary Armenian noble title used in Eastern Armenia from the Late Middle Ages until the nineteenth century. The meliks represented some of the last remnants of the old Armenian nobility, as well as Persian nobility in Shirvan and other areas of the Persian Empire.
Мelik (Armenian: մելիք, romanized: melik’, from Arabic: ملك, romanized: malik, lit. 'king') was a hereditary Armenian noble title used in Eastern Armenia from the Late Middle Ages until the nineteenth century. The meliks represented some of the last remnants of the old Armenian nobility, as well as Persian nobility in Shirvan and other areas of the Persian Empire.
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