Տիգրանակերտ մայրաքաղաքի տեղադրութեան հարցի շուրջ
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1994
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The question of locating the site of the lost Tigranocerta, one of the great capitals of ancient Armenia, has remained open, though many scholars have tried to solve the problem.
Dr. Haroutunian, the Dean of the History Department of the University of Yerevan, Armenia, a renowned historian and cartographer in his own right, presents in this study his findings pertaining to the location of the ancient Armenian capital.
Making use of almost all the possible and available Western and Armenian sources of both classical antiquity and the Middle Ages (excluding Arab ones because of Haroutunian's lack of knowledge of Arabic), the author concludes that though for quite a long time Amid and Tigranocerta have overlapped and have created a confusion both in the minds and works of the world famous Armenologists, they are not the same, and hence are completely different places. It is true that the question has been minutely tackled with and care has been spent to locate the site of the great capital of the first and only emperor of the Armenian history, and in spite of the fact that the greatest Armenologists, both Western and Armenian, of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have come to the question now and again, Dr. Haroutunian once more takes the question and, through a deep amlysis of almost all possible sources, gives an almost conclusive answer to the students of Armenian history, this is why this study is a major contribution in the field, and will definitely help people to orient themselves in the right direction while exploring the past history and glory which Armenia was.
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Յարութիւնեան, Բ. Հ., «Տիգրանակերտ մայրաքաղաքի տեղադրութեան հարցի շուրջ», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 1994, Պէյրութ, էջ 11-40