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6. Doureperan, or Turaberan.
7. Ararad, centre of the whole.
8. Vasbouragan, or Yaspuracan.
9. Siunik'h, or Suaies.
10. Artsak'h, or Arzakh.
11. F'haidagaran, or Phaitaran.
To the South,
12. Aghdsnik'h, or Akhtznies.
13. Mogk'h, or Moeks.
14. Gordjaik'h, or Corchas.
15. Persian Armenia, or Parsca Haic.
Very few of these names are to be met with in the present
day. The existing divisions may be considered as regulated by
the extent of the pashalics of Erz-Eum and Kars, with the
addition of the greater portions of those of Diyar Bekr, Van,
and Erivan. The great cities were Artaxata, Vaspurcania,
and Shemiramgerd, near lake Van. 1 The ancient capital
of Hai-ass-tan was Ani; a city, the extent and magnificence
of which is still much vaunted by the Armenians, who de
light in saying that it contained 1000 churches and 100,000
houses. This immense metropolis was in the country of
Shirag, 2 at the confluence of the Akhouran and Ehah rivers,
which fall into the Araxes; where its site is marked by a
double line of walls and numerous fragments of columns, &c.
It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1319, and Kars then
became the residence of the kings of the race of Payratides,
as Nisibis was that of Tigranes; and finally Sis of the latest
monarchs.
The divisions of Armenia Major and Minor were, how
ever, only made after the time of Antiochus the Great, or
190 years b . c.; and the dispersion of the Armenians over
Asia and parts of Europe followed the Turkish conquest in
the sixteenth century. 3
1 Visited by the late Professor Schultz.
2 Probably the Syracene of Ptolemy. A colony of Bulgarians settled here
about 120 years before Christ.—St. Martin, Memoires sur I'Armenie.
3 Apergu, &c., Tome IV., p. 245 to 248.