Vasil Dgha

{{Short description|Ruler of Raban and Kaisun from 1112 to 1116}}

Vasil Dgha, or Dgha Vasil (dgha meaning "child, boy"), was the Armenian ruler of Raban and Kaisun. He succeeded his adoptive father, Kogh Vasil, in 1112.{{sfn|Runciman|1989|p=124}} Baldwin II, Count of Edessa, tortured Vasil to force him to abandon his domains in 1116.{{sfn|MacEvitt|2010|p=87}}{{sfn|Runciman|1989|p=129}}{{sfn|Fink|1969|p=405}} Vasil settled in Constantinople.{{sfn|MacEvitt|2010|p=87}}{{sfn|Runciman|1989|p=129}}

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{{cite book |last=Fink |first=Harold S. |editor1-last=Setton |editor1-first=Kenneth M. |editor2-last=Baldwin |editor2-first=Marshall W. |title=A History of the Crusades, Volume One: The First Hundred Years |publisher=The University of Wisconsin Press |year=1969 |pages=368–409 |chapter=The Foundation of the Latin States, 1099–1118 |isbn=978-1-58684-251-2 }}
{{cite book |last=MacEvitt |first=Christopher |year=2010 |title=The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-4050-4 }}
{{cite book |last=Runciman |first=Steven |author-link=Steven Runciman |year=1989 |title=A History of the Crusades, Volume II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-06162-8 }}

Category:12th-century Armenian people

Category:12th-century Byzantine people

Category:Byzantine people of Armenian descent