The future catholicos, Hakob Jughaetsi (1655-1680), was among its graduates, as were a number of historians and translators. According to one primary source, the Sunnis of Nakhichevan province were killed and their villages were razed by the Safavid army. Armenian churches, schools, cultural centers, sports clubs and associations flourished and Armenians had their own senator and member of parliament, Thirty churches and some four dozen schools and libraries served the needs of the community. // -->,