sentences:  The Hasan-Jalalyan family was able to maintain its autonomy throughout several centuries of foreign domination of the region by Seljuk Turks, Persians and Mongols as they, as well as the other Armenian princes and "meliks" of Khachen, saw themselves of holding the last bastion of Armenian independence in the region.Through their many patronages of churches and other monuments, the Hasan-Jalalyans helped cultivate Armenian culture throughout the region.By the late 16th century, the Hasan-Jalalyan family had branched out to establish melikdoms in Gulistan and Jraberd, along with their original holdings in the melikdom of Khachen, were, alongside the separatly ruled melikdoms of Varanda and Dizak, a part of what was then known as the "Melikdoms of Khamsa."