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1895 - Armenia

Armenia, ar-mee'ne-a (Turk. Erminee'yeh; Russ. Armenya; the Minni of the Scriptures), a country of Western Asia, not now politically existing, but of great historical interest. It varied in extent at different epochs, but it may be regarded as lying between lat. 36° 50' and 41° 40' N., and lon. 36° 20' and 48° 40' E. It was known as Armenia Major and Armenia Minor, or the Greater and the Less Armenia. Armenia Major, commencing at Someisat, stretches along the Euphrates, which bounds it on the W., till near Erzengan, a few miles to the S. of which it leaves the river and keeps the direction of Trebizond as far as the mountains S. of Goomish-Khaneh. It proceeds N.E. along this range, then skirts the N. extremity of the district of Kars, and, passing onward to near Tiflis, runs along the right bank of the Koor, whose course it follows to the Caspian, which now becomes the boundary on the E. Leaving the Caspian, it turns S.W. in the direction of Tabreez, and passes through the districts of Wan and Diarbekir, on the frontiers of which it again meets the Euphrates at Someisat, , Armenia Minor lies along the range of the Kof-Tagh, which runs W. almost parallel to the Black Sea, and forms its N. boundary as far as a point on the river Halys, or Kizil-Irmak, not far from the Black Sea. Armenia Minor follows the course of this river for about 180 miles, and, continuing S.W., meets the Taurus, which becomes its boundary almost to the sea near Aias, on the W. side of the Bay of Iskanderoon. From this point it sweeps round the S. side of the districts of Adana and Marash, and meets the Euphrates, which thus intersects Armenia almost centrally, and forms the natural boundaries between the two divisions now described. Armenia is now divided between Russia, Persia, and Turkey...

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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