Moxoene
Moxoene was a region of old Armenia, today in Van province, Turkey, as well as a feudal familial name c. 400–800, also known by the name Mogkh (Armenian: Մոկք) or Mox, Moxq, Moxus, Moxos, Moks, Mukus, Miks, Mikus, sometimes Mekes, as Muksî or Muskî in Kurdish, today Bahçesaray in Turkish.
It was an ancient Armenian province, which was bounded on the south by a part of Assyria called by the Armenians Arovasdan. [1] It was governed by Armenian princes whose descendants still reigned there in the tenth century. [1] The principality of Moxoene, along with Corduene and Zabdicene, is considered to be a Carduchian dynasty[2].
Before the Armenian Genocide the district contained sixty villages, forty of which were inhabited by Armenians[3]. Faqi Tayran, the Kurdish poet and writer, and Han Mahmud, the 19th-century Kurdish lord, were from this district.
Known rulers
- c. 390 -- Sura. Subsequently lost and recovered their power.
- 415 -- Atom;
- 445 -- Artak;
- 480 -- Ohan;
Records are rather scant until the region was in the hands of Sembat Bagratuni c. 850
References
- ^ a b Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon - Page 358 by Sir Austen Henry Layard, Austin Henry Layard Cite error: The named reference "ancient" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ C. Toumanoff, Introduction to Christian Caucasian History II: Status and Dynasties of the Formative Period, Traditio, Vol. XVII, pp.1-107, 1961, Frodham University Press, New York. (see pp.31-32)
- ^ New Monthly Magazine - Page 446 by Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth
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