Տարօնի Ս. Յովհաննէսի (Եղրդուտի) վանքի 1445 թուականի կոնդակը (պատմա-աշխարհագրական ակնարկ)
| dc.contributor.author | Գեղամ Բադալեան | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-02T08:42:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-10-02T08:42:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1997 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Mainly making use of the givens of the three copies of the encyclical of 1445 of the St. John’s Monastery of Taron, the region lost forever in the days of the Armenian holocaust of 1915, the author tries to reconstitute the topographical areas of all the districts, fields and feudatory lands which the monastery owned which were back from unknown times, but in due time were lost to Kurds and Turks, and hence were completely changed in name or underwent corruption and hence were known in a variety of appellations. According to the encyclical the monastery had quite a vast area of land and numerous villages all inhabited by Armenians; it also had plains, fields and pastures, springs and rivulets, castles and churches in different places, all in all, some two hundred one of them; of these 116 were, at least in 1870, inhabited sites of which eighty were only by Armenians, 42 by Kurds and Demliks, while there were others where Armenians lived mixed with Assyrians and Greeks. Of all these, 28 had lost their Armenian population, while either were raised to the ground by marauding Kurds and Turks. The great Armenianship of the region from Mush-Taron to Diarbekir is wiped out. With this loss the ethnography too underwent a complete change and the new occupants of the area and habitable Armenian sites, the Kurds and Turks, changed not only the geographic and topographic appellations but also the demographic character of the latter. In his article Badalian examines the site-names, both past and present, and with the help of German, Russian, Ottoman and modern Turkish popular and official maps tries to locate each mentioned site of the 1445 encyclical of the St. John’s Monastery. According to the three copies existing at the present (one is an Armenian manuscript of the Matenadaran, and the other two published in the nineteenth century), the St. John’s Monastery stood just on the border line of Taron and Sassun regions and included the districts and feuds of Taron, Kinj and Pechar, Baghin and Sevan, Hayni, Lije and Slemanik, Moufarghin, Zereklik and Atakh, Kulb or Nahia and Gazkou, Mihranik, and Rapat Nahia districts. According to certain informations emanating from 1840-1850 decade, this area included more than one hundred villages, with 3700 families and around 30,000 inhabitants. Though the loss for Armenians in 1915 holocaust was immense in all respects, the “St. John’s Monastery” was looted and destroyed, precious manuscripts annihilated and the original encyclical with them, the Armenians of the sites belonging to the monastery were exterminated, and just a small number of them were saved through dispersion. The newcomers and the new lords of the land now endeavour to show to the world that the region from Mush-Taron to Diarbekir was and has always been Turkish and Kurdish, while Badalian proves with the corroboration of various sources just the opposite and to re-establishes and to re-establish the original site-names of the places. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Բադալեան, Գ., «Տարօնի Ս. Յովհաննէսի (Եղրդուտի) վանքի 1445 թուականի կոնդակը (պատմա-աշխարհագրական ակնարկ)», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 1997, Պէյրութ, էջ 45-68 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/764 | |
| dc.title | Տարօնի Ս. Յովհաննէսի (Եղրդուտի) վանքի 1445 թուականի կոնդակը (պատմա-աշխարհագրական ակնարկ) |
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