Abstract
Christianism in Eastern Anatolia
Being one of the most important settlement centres in Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia, together with its politic, military, economic and cultural activities maintains its special feature of being an important centre in terms of religion as well. Being the most active religions of the Middle Age, Mazdeism and Christianity struggled to dominate the region. Two representatives of these religions, Persian and East Roman Empires, attacked the region continually benefiting from the feudal structure of the region. Christianity emerged triumphant in the religion war of the these two empires. The communities in Eastern Anatolia are acknowledged to have accepted the Christianity contradicted with the East Roman Christianity. Gregoryen became the representative of Christianity.<
Keywords
Eastern Anatolia, Kamsarakan, Şirak, Gregoryen..