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Khatchik

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ423993
Source-derived summary

Khatchík or Khatchig is an Armenian given name (now it is a diminutive of Khachatur). Notable people with the name include:

Khachig I — Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 973 and 992

Khachik II of Cilicia, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1058 and 1065

Gurgen-Khachik Artsruni (died 1003) — Lord of Rechtuniq, King of Vaspurakan (991-1003) — Brother of Ashot-Sahak

Khachik Abrahamyan (born 1960), Armenian artist

Khachik Dashtents (1910–1974), Soviet Armenian writer and translator

Khatchig Babikian (1924–1999), philanthropist, attorney, former member of the Lebanese Parliament (1957–1999), Lebanese politician of Armenian origin.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1058, 1065, 1003, 1960—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Khatchik, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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This entry incorporates text from Khatchik” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.