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Article: The Geography of Ananias of Sirak (ASXARHA COYC), The Long and the Short Recensions: Introduction, Translation and Commentary.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- April 1, 1997
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This imposing volume makes available in English for the first time an important geographical source plausibly dated to the early seventh century C.E., which forms a link in the chain from Ptolemy and his Greek successors to later Arab cultivation of the genre. Apart from an independent, more succinct work attributed to Vardan Areweli in the thirteenth century, this text was the only one of its kind in Armenia until the introduction of modern cartography in the seventeenth century. Subsequently, it inspired generations of politicians and freedom fighters with a depiction of the Armenian homeland at its largest extent.
Following the classical model of describing the ...
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