Goghtn
Goght'n (
Goght'n was well known for winemaking, the quality of its grape and fruit orchards. The region also was the birthplace of a number of prominent Armenian Ordubad).[2]
History
Early to medieval
According to
Syunik' and had their own regional bishop.[4] The second Gahnamak, or Military List, notes that the princes were expected during time of war to furnish 500 cavalry to help defend the Kingdom of Armenia's southern gate (that is, its southern border).[5][6]
The seventh-century Armenian atlas Ashkharhats'uyts' mentions Goght'n as the 31st of the 35 districts of Vaspurakan.Safavid Persia.[12]
Early modern to modern
In 1604, the region was depopulated by
Shah Abbas I and its Armenian inhabitants deported to Iran. Goght'n became a part of the khanate of Nakhichevan in the mid-1700s and was divided into five districts (mahals): Ordubad, Agulis, Dasht, Belev, and Chananab. In 1752, it was attacked and subjected by Azat Khan.[12]
In the early twentieth century, Goght'an was the name given to the subregion of
Sharur-Nakhichevan by the government of the First Republic of Armenia. Its administrative center was at Agulis, with commissar Ashot Melik-Musian and militia chief Movses Giulnazarian at its head. The region suffered intense fighting during a brief conflict between Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in the latter half of 1919, including the destruction of Agulis in December by a Muslim mob.[13]
Monuments
A number of historical Armenian churches were once found in Goght'n. These included Basilica of St. James in Shoṛot', the Monastery of St. Thomas the Apostle in Upper Agulis, Holy Mother of God Church in Ts'gnay, and Monastery of St. Mesrop in Msrvanis.[12]
Notes
- ^ Robert H. Hewsen. The Geography of Ananias of Širak: Ašxarhacʻoycʻ, the Long and the Short Recensions. — Reichert, 1992. — P. 253.
- ^ a b c Hakobyan, Tadevos (2007). Հայաստանի Պատմական Աշխարհագրություն [Historical Geography of Armenia] (in Armenian). Yerevan: Yerevan State University Press. p. 179.
- ^ Soulahian Kuyumjian, Rita (2001). Archeology of Madness: Komitas, Portrait of an Armenian Icon. Edition 2. Reading, England: Taderon Press; Princeton, NJ: Gomidas Institute, p. 11.
- Hewsen, Robert(2001). Armenia: A Historical Atlas. Chicago: Chicago University Press, p. 266.
- ^ Adontz, Nicholas (1970). Armenia in the Period of Justinian: The Political Conditions Based on the Naxarar System. Trans. Nina G. Garsoïan. Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. p. 195.
- ^ On the house of Goght'n, see Cyril Toumanoff (1963), Studies in Christian Caucasian History. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, p. 199.
- ^ Hakobyan. Historical Geography of Armenia, p. 168.
- ^ Garsoïan, Nina G. (1997). “The Arab Invasions and the Rise of the Bagratuni (640-884),” in The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century, ed. Richard G. Hovannisian, New York: St. Martin's Press, vol. 1, p. 133.
- ^ Ter-Ghewondyan, Aram N. (1976). The Arab Emirates in Bagratid Armenia. Trans. Nina G. Garsoïan. Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, pp. 72, 101.
- ^ Hewsen. Armenia, p. 110.
- ^ Ter-Ghewondyan. The Arab Emirates in Bagratid Armenia, pp. 72-73, 100-03.
- ^ a b c (in Armenian) Anon. Գողթն (Goght'n). Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1977, vol. 3, p. 151.
- ISBN 0-520-04186-0.
Further reading
- (in Armenian) Mkhitarian Press, 1893.