ter-khachatryan or ter-khachatryants is an armenian family, known from the xviii century. first well-known representative of this family - daniel-bek of sassun ter khachatryan or ter khachatryan (born in province sassun or sason of western armenia) about 1785 - died in (town mush of western armenia), in 1829). he was originally an armenian nobleman, descendant of south or sout-west branch, i.e. tarawn-aldznik branch of bagratouni or bagratids dynasty (actually son of the armenian priest of khachatur and, who was a descendant of the armenian princely dynasty bagratid, the south or south-west branch of them in 13-14 centuries saved shallow possessions in the district of sassun or sason of western armenia and province of aldznik, as well as in the district of mush in the province of tarawn of western armenia). as a result of the hard oppressions of kurd feudal lords, daniel-bek of sassun transmigrated from sason to the town mush, where his family had a house in the armenian quarter of berd, near the church saint marineh. the eldest son of daniel-bek of sassun, avdal bek ter-khachatryants (1805-1867) also lived in mush. the son of avdal bek ter-khachatryants and grandson of daniel-bek of sassun was jakob bek (hakob bek) ter-khachatryants. the son of jakob bek (hakob bek) ter-khachatryants was khachatur-bek of mush (the town mush of western armenia), who lived in the first half of the 19th century. khachar and garegin khachatryan, both prominent armenian artists and ideologists of armenian liberation movement, were descendents of his house.