Armenian Territory Thru History

Filed under: Armenia, Travel — Posted by Katy on December 4th

Coming Anarchy has done a neat map project displaying Armenian territory over time. Here’s the link. Somehow I guess that someone’s going to disagree with some aspect of it.

11 Comments »

  1. Those have to be the most inaccurate historical maps of Armenia ever drawn

    Comment by vm — 12/4/2005 @ 3:40 pm

  2. with the exception of Cilicia, all the other maps are incorrect.

    The best English-language source, I think, is Robert Hewsen’s Armenia: A Historical Atlas. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226332284/qid=1133706980/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-7592053-2751232?n=507846&s=books&v=glance

    The author would be well advised to compare with the source.

    Comment by Hovakim — 12/4/2005 @ 5:47 pm

  3. I love the Hewsen guide!

    Comment by Katy — 12/4/2005 @ 6:41 pm

  4. Didn’t Armenia conquer into Syrian areas at some point, probably in rather early history? Those maps don’t look so correct to me either.

    Comment by Paul — 12/4/2005 @ 7:16 pm

  5. vm,

    I can personally vouch for the fact that Curzon knowingly “misled” the blogosphere into believing his maps of Armenia were accurate. My sources inside Coming Anarchy tell me that Curzon trying to export American-style democracy and the World Trade Organization, and is blinded by theocratic groupthink.

    Comment by Dan tdaxp — 12/4/2005 @ 11:03 pm

  6. Question 1: what the heck do old maps of what could have potentially been or not been Armenian territory have anything to do with the WTO or democracy or America?

    Question 2: Did Curzon TELL you that his maps were accurate or inaccurate?

    I myself didn’t find them very accurate, but I left it up to the readers to pull it apart. This leads me back to question 1.

    Comment by Katy — 12/5/2005 @ 12:58 am

  7. Katy,

    Merely some light-hearted humor, in response to vm’s rather critical comment. That’s all :)

    Comment by Dan tdaxp — 12/5/2005 @ 1:02 am

  8. Sorry. It has been a loooooooooooooong weekend. My apologies Dan.

    Comment by Katy — 12/5/2005 @ 1:24 am

  9. It is interesting, that VAN is not of part of Armenia on any map but one.

    Comment by Գագիկ — 12/5/2005 @ 4:00 am

  10. These are good ones, check them out if you like

    http://www.armenica.org/cgi-bin/history/en/getHistory.cgi?3=1==Armenia==1=3=AAA

    Comment by Joe — 12/5/2005 @ 8:33 am

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    Comment by dwwqlkenbs — 6/12/2006 @ 2:34 am

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