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Revision as of 07:43, 9 November 2008 by Grandmaster (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Sisak (Template:Lang-hy) was the legendary ancestor of the Armenian princely house of Syuni, also called Siunids, Syunid and Syuni. The fifth century Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi remembers Sisak as the brother of Harmar, son of Gegham and the grandson of the legendary patriarch of the Armenians, Hayk. Gegham had taken up residence near Lake Sevan and, following his death, the lands encompassing the areas from Lake Sevan to the Araks River were inherited by Sisak. The region assumed Sisak's name (Template:Lang-hy; Sisakan) after he died, and those who descended from his dynastic line were known in Armenian as Syunis (in Armenian, Սյունիներ; Syuniner) or Sisakyaner (Սիսակյաններ). After the Kingdom of Armenia introduced the system of administrative divisions known as nahangs (provinces) in the second century B.C., the Siunis were confirmed by King Vagharshak I the Parthian as the lords of the province of Syunik.
Historian Robert H. Hewsen, who along with a number of other leading experts in Armenian studies is of the opinion that Movses Khorenatsi actually wrote his History of Armenia in either the eighth or ninth centuries, contends that Sisak was an eponym and that the name first originated in another work predating that of Movses':
Sisak...can only be another eponym, and a late one at that. Sisak is said to have been the ancestor of the princes of Siwnik', a province on the southern border of Geghak’uni. It was called Sisakan by the Sasanids (who ruled Persia from 226 to 637 A.D.); this term was unknown to Armenian historiography before the seventh century A.D. and was first used by a Syrian writer only in the sixth century.
References
- ^ Template:Hy icon Harutyunyan, Babken. «Սիսակ» (Sisak). Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. vol. x. Yerevan, Armenian SSR: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1984, p. 399.
- Template:Hy icon Movses Khorenatsi. History of Armenia, 5th Century (Հայոց Պատմություն, Ե Դար). Annotated translation and commentary by Stepan Malkhasyants. Gagik Sarkisyan (ed.) Yerevan: Hayastan Publishing, 1997, 1.12, p. 88 ISBN 5-5400-1192-9.
- Template:Hy icon Harutyunyan, Babken. «Սյունիներ» (Siuniner). Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. vol. x. Yerevan, Armenian SSR: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1984, pp. 473-475.
- Hewson, Robert H. "The Primary History of Armenia: An Examination of the Validity of an Immemorially Transmitted Historical Tradition." History in Africa, Vol. 2., 1975, pp. 91-100.
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