| Revision as of 09:48, 8 December 2023 editAnomieBOT (talk | contribs)Bots6,558,027 editsm Dating maintenance tags: {{Cn}} {{Failed verification}}← Previous edit |
Latest revision as of 07:24, 28 December 2023 edit undoVanamonde93 (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Checkusers, Oversighters, Administrators80,241 edits Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Greater Armenia (state) closed as redirect (XFDcloser)Tag: New redirect |
| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
|
⚫ |
#REDIRECT ] |
|
{{Short description|The state of Armenia in the 2nd century BC}} |
|
|
<!-- Please do not remove or change this AfD message until the discussion has been closed. --> |
|
|
{{Article for deletion/dated|page=Greater Armenia (state)|timestamp=20231205105420|year=2023|month=December|day=5|substed=yes|help=off}} |
|
|
<!-- Once discussion is closed, please place on talk page: {{Old AfD multi|page=Greater Armenia (state)|date=5 December 2023|result='''keep'''}} --> |
|
|
<!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point --> |
|
|
{{other uses|Greater Armenia (disambiguation)}} |
|
|
]'s brief-lived empire (ca. 80 BC)]] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
{{Rcat shell| |
|
'''Greater Armenia''' ({{lang-hy|Մեծ Հայք|translit=Mets Hayk}}) is the name given to the ]n state that emerged in the ] during the reign of King ] at the turn of the 2nd century BC.{{cn|date=December 2023}} The term was used to refer principally to the fifteen provinces that made up Armenian kingdoms throughout the ], ], and ] periods by contemporary Armenian and non-Armenian authors alike.<ref name=Hewsen1997>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/HewsenHistoricalGeographyArmenia/page/n15/mode/2up |chapter=The Geography of Armenia |first=Robert H. |last= Hewsen |author-link=Robert H. Hewsen |title=The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times|volume=I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century |date=1997 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-0-333-61973-5 |location=New York, NY|oclc=940378935|editor-first=Richard G. |editor-last=Hovannisian |editor-link= Richard G. Hovannisian |pages=15–16}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=December 2023}} |
|
|
|
{{R to related topic}} |
|
|
|
|
==Extent== |
|
|
Though its borders were never exactly defined, Greater Armenia usually referred to the stretch of land beginning from the ] to the west, the region of ] and parts of what are now ] and ] to the east, parts of the modern state of ] to the north, with its southern boundary rounding the northern tip of ].{{cn|date=October 2023}} |
|
|
|
|
|
The ] referred to it in Latin as ''Armenia Maior'' while the ] called it ''Armenia Megale'' ({{lang|grc|Ἀρμενία Μεγάλη}}), to differentiate it from ] (''Pok'r Hayk′'', in Latin ''Armenia Minor'').<ref>{{in lang|hy}} ]. "Mets Hayk'," ], vol. 7, pp. 434-36.</ref> It would later be used to distinguish it from the medieval kingdom that was established in ], which was sometimes referred to as Little Armenia (not to be confused with Lesser Armenia).{{cn|date=October 2023}} |
|
|
|
|
|
==Maps== |
|
|
{{Gallery |
|
|
|title=Maps of Greater Armenia |
|
|
|width=160 | height=170 |
|
|
|align=center |
|
|
|File:81ArabAbbasidPeriod750-885.gif |
|
|
|alt1=] 9th century AD |
|
|
|The ] in the 9th century AD |
|
|
|File:Ptolemy Cosmographia 1467 - Central Europe.jpg |
|
|
|alt2=Armenia in Ptolemy's '']'' |
|
|
|Armenia as seen depicted in ]'s '']'' |
|
|
|File:AMBS by Karl von Spruner.jpg |
|
|
|alt3=Armenia, Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Assyria with Adjacent Regions, Karl von Spruner, published in 1865 |
|
|
|Armenia, Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Assyria with Adjacent Regions, Karl von Spruner, published in 1865 |
|
|
}} |
|
}} |
|
|
|
|
==References== |
|
|
{{reflist}} |
|
|
|
|
|
==Further reading== |
|
|
*]. ''Armenia in the Period of Justinian: The Political Conditions Based on the Naxarar System'', trans. ] (Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1970). |
|
|
*] ''Armenia: A Historical Atlas'' (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2001). |
|
|
|
|
|
==See also== |
|
|
*] |
|
|
*] |
|
|
|
|
|
] |
|
| ⚫ |
] |
|