Mount Imeon
Mount Imeon (Altay Mountains in the northeast, and linked to the Kunlun, Karakoram and Himalayas to the southeast. The term was used by Hellenistic-era scholars as "Imaus Mount", even though non-Greek in etymology, and predating Alexander the Great.[citation needed]
Geography
A detailed description of the mountainous territory and its people was given in the
Suren T. Eremian, the mountain system was divided into four branches (delimited by green dotted lines on the map) corresponding respectively to four present ranges:[clarification needed
]
- Southern Imeon (‘Emavon’ in Armenian): Hindu Kush;
- Southeastern Imeon: Badakhshan and Pamir;
- Northern Imeon: Alay Mountains and the Tian Shan ranges situated north of Fergana Valley;
- Northeastern Imeon: central and eastern part of Tian Shan
The mountains bordered the lands of
Khwarezm
in the northwest.
The mountain system was crossed by a segment of the
Alay Mountains to enter Fergana Valley.[clarification needed
]
Mount Imeon was famous for its
Sar-e-Sang have been producing lapis lazuli for millennia now, supplying the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Rome, and still yielding the world’s finest lapis. The Venetian adventurer Marco Polo visited the mines in 1271 during his famous journey to China, following the Silk Road to cross the mountains by way of Wakhan.[4][clarification needed
]
Population
According to Hephthalites and Alchons.
Honour
Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Mount Imeon.[6]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c Eremian, Suren. Reconstructed map of Central Asia from ‘Ashharatsuyts’.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-88226-485-2
- ^ Hogan, C. Michael. Silk Road, North China. The Megalithic Portal, edited by A. Burnham. 2007.
- ^ Polo, Marco and Rustichello of Pisa. The Travels of Marco Polo, Vol. 1. Ed. Henry Yule (1903), and Henry Cordier (1920). Gutenberg Project, 2004.
- ISBN 978-0-674-39571-8
- ^ Imeon Range. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
Further reading
- Bakalov, Georgi. Little known facts of the history of ancient Bulgarians. Science Magazine. Union of Scientists in Bulgaria. Vol. 15 (2005) Issue 1. (in Bulgarian)
- Dimitrov, Bozhidar. Bulgarians and Alexander of Macedon. Sofia: Tangra Publishers, 2001. 138 pp. (in Bulgarian) ISBN 954-9942-29-5
- Dobrev, Petar. Unknown Ancient Bulgaria. Sofia: Ivan Vazov Publishers, 2001. 158 pp. (in Bulgarian) ISBN 954-604-121-1
- Shirakatsi, Anania. Geography Guide (7th Century AD). Russian version: Армянская География VII века по Р.Х. (Приписывавшаяся Моисею Хоренскому). Tекст и перевод с присовокуплением карт и объяснительных примечаний издал К.П. Патканов. Санктпетербург: Типография Императорской Академии Наук, 1877. (An early modern publication, less detailed than later ones.)[failed verification]
- Background Note: Bulgaria. Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, US Department of State, 2010