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[]
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
References[]
Categories:
- Given names
- Armenian masculine given names