Israel Ori

Israel Ori (Armenian: ԻսրաելՕրի) (1658 - 1711), is an eminent figure of the national movement of release of the Armenian people against the domination of the Ottoman Empire and Persia.

In 1678, the Catholicos Hagop IV share of Etchmiadzine for Rome, with an aim of asking to the pope the intervention Christian powers of Europe in Arménie, in exchange of what it would be close placing the Christian Church in Roman obedience. He dies in way, and the delegation regains Arménie except for Israel Ori, wire of one of the five melik of Karabakh, 19 years old. It gains the France where it engages in the army of the king. Captive fact by the English, then slackened, it goes in Germany near the prince-voter of Palatinat, to which it promises the crown of Arménie if it managed to release the country. The prince, astonished by his step, requests it to turn over in Arménie, to be made confirm his proposal by the melik and to inform it of the forces of which those could lay out. Returned at his place in 1699, Ori learns that new the catholicos refuses the tender in Rome. With the approval of the melik, it sets out again for Palatinat. The prince-voter advises to him to address to the emperor Léopold Ier. This one declares to him that it cannot be interested by this business without the support of the Russia. Ori leaves to Saint-Pétersbourg, and presents to Pierre Large the (1700). The tsar, magic of the project, promises to make a forwarding in Arménie against the Turks and Persians. But the war with the Sweden will prevent it to carry it out before 1722.

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