Trdat the Architect, known in Latin as Tiridates, was chief architect of the Bagratuni Dynasty of Armenia. In 961, Ashot III moved his capital from Kars to the great city of Ani where he assembled new palaces and rebuilt the walls. The Catholicosate was moved to the Arkina district in the suburbs of Ani where Trdat completed the building of the Catholicosal palace and the Mother Cathedral of Ani. Wikipedia
500 Beginning in the early sixth century, monumental rock-cut architecture flourishes in the Byzantine region of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia. www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/06/waa/ht06waa.htm
Justinian chose Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles , a physicist and a mathematician, as architects; Anthemius, however, died within the first year. www.magicaljourneys.com/Turkey/turkey-interest-istanbul-h...
One copy of Step'anos' history (Erevan Madenataran ms. 2865) names Trdat as the architect, the architect of the Cathedral of Ani. armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/iaa_architecture/gagikashen...
A study of the Ani Cathedral - part of a building by building visual tour of the deserted medieval Armenian city of Ani www.virtualani.org/cathedral/index.htm
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Trdat The Architect. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trdat_the_Architect
It can be stated that their buildings and arts were one of the reasons why the military architecture of the Levant was the leading architecture of its time"... www.armeniad.com/Excerpts.aspx