sentences:  1126 in Melitene (today Malatya), the son of the Priest Eliya (Elias), of the Qindasi family.His uncle, the monk Athanasius, became bishop of Anazarbus in Cilicia in 1136.At that period Melitene was part of the kingdom of the Turcoman Danishmend dynasty, and, when that realm was divided in two in 1142, it became the capital of one principality.