Comments on: Armenia’s Geography through History

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Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:28:46 +0000

[...] The Armenians were to have their own state in the region of Cilicia, the Armenian state “given” to the Armenians by the Crusaders. [...]

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Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:47:41 +0000

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By: Hakob

Hakob — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 07:24:01 +0000

Seems like the map of 100 B.C. – 200 A.D. is incorrect. During that time the Armenian king Tigran the Great created the from-sea-to-sea Armenia.

By: Robert H.

Robert H. — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 07:09:42 +0000

It’s an interesting sent, but while the maps are somewhat accurate they do not portray the general historical armenain borders. I’d say they are from some brief periods. Except the last two maps the rest are somewhat unknown.
The historical contents are also plagued by inaccuracies. Crusaders didn’t give anything to armenians. Armenian king Toros 2nd the son of Levon 1st (who was captured by Byzantine) fought and cleared Cilician armenia from the Byzantine army.

While i appreciate the effort put into this blog i feel it’s necessary to correct some major mistaks. I do appologise if i sounded too critical.
If anyone’s interested, you can find more maps and a more accurate knowledge about armenian history Here http://www.armembassycanada.ca/armenia/history.htm.
Maybe this will be of help to the starter of this blog also.

Cheers

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:38:20 +0000

Curzon,

While your taking requests, any hope of a similar series for the Kurds?

By: By Dawn's Early Light

By Dawn's Early Light — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:18:14 +0000

Survey Around the Globe

Excellent reading from around the world.

By: sun bin

sun bin — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 02:59:09 +0000

interesting maps.

do people actually migrated like the poles and germans after WWII? (esp 1100-1400) or is this just where the amenian kings ruled (perhaps with limited migration as well)?

By: Curzon

Curzon — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 02:06:35 +0000

Artyom: My graphic skills might not be up to snuff, but my maps are very similar to those of Professor Hewsen. Also, these are snapshots: my historical Atlas shows three sets of borders for the Armenia Crusader state.

Dr. Nexon: Thank you, I have another one coming up later this week. I have excluded period when Armenia was not an independent polity, hence the Ottoman, Mongol, Seljuk, etc periods are not listed. Again, this is just a survey and could have many more maps.

By: Daniel Nexon

Daniel Nexon — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:41:10 +0000

What of the Mongol period?

I enjoy these posts a great deal. Keep them coming… but we need to remember two things: (1) it is very easy to overplay the degree of political and social continuity between polities that bear the same name and occupy roughly the same place (the error of primordialism) and (2) our maps don’t represent very well the lived experience of ancient political communities.

By: Artyom

Artyom — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:25:26 +0000

Much, much inaccuracies. Please consult Robert Hewsen’s beautiful, professional, and accurate Armenia: A Historical Atlas which can be found here.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:59:35 +0000

I still have my old historical atlas. Among other things, it has pull-out maps showing Eurasia during every century between 200 BC and 1600 AD. Fascinating to compare…

By: Curzon

Curzon — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:42:05 +0000

Indeed, in Japan, the course “World History” actually covers just that—world history. Armenia is not covered per se, but historical atlases are required texts.

By: Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace

Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:26:51 +0000

Certainly impressive that this was dealt with in your Japanese High School text – it certainly wasn’t in my English ones. We hear a lot of bad things said about some Japanese textbooks, but this seems excellent…

By: Ara Manoogian

Ara Manoogian — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:18:53 +0000

Very nice.

By: varske

varske — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:35:15 +0000

That’s a pretty neat set of maps. Someone should do a set to show the ebb and flow of Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo. Can you explain the technology you used?

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:30:34 +0000

Reminds me of the Balkans, so many overlapping Empires. The entire region is like Thessaly, obviously part of the Greater Serbian, Illyrian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Greek, Turkish, Latin Empire.

By: Curzon

Curzon — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:44:02 +0000

Yes, Armenia conquered Syria and other neighboring regions from the Seleucids after becoming independet at around 100 B.C. (My map above of that period shows the kingdom shortly after independence was established.) This series could be 100 maps long if every change in the borders was taken into account—this is a general guide.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:07:56 +0000

Out of curiosity, didn’t Armenia at some point in history conquer into Syrian lands? I seem to remember hearing that, it’d be interesting to see what their borders were like at that time. In all likelihood it didn’t last very long at all though which is probably it was left out.

By: Blogrel » Armenian Territory Thru History

Blogrel » Armenian Territory Thru History — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 09:18:01 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Registan.net :: Central Asia News

Registan.net :: Central Asia News — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 07:25:14 +0000

Armenia Throughout History

Because it’s nice to take a break from current affairs every now and then and because I don’t seem to do it enough myself, let me draw your attention to this post at Coming Anarchy showing the borders of Armenia throughout history.

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