In the last decade of the 12th century, in the first decade of the 13th century, Shahnshah Zakare II Zakaryan, who restored Armenia’s independence, carried out administrative territorial reforms in the Armenia-Hayk kingdom he founded and gave bias to individual administrative units created within the country, biased names to their leaders, awarding the latter with the title of prince of princes. These territorial units, being the product of the historical and political situation of the 13th century, completely reflected the philosophical approaches of the country’s leader to building a state. Although they were a new phenomenon in the Armenian reality of that time, they still had their historical precedents.
