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The '''Principality of Khachen''' ({{lang-hy|Խաչենի իշխանություն}}) was a [[medieval]] [[principality]], in part of historical [[Artsakh]] (present-day [[Nagorno-Karabakh]]).<ref>The New Encyclopedia Britannica by Robert MacHenry, Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc, Robert MacHenry, (1993) p.761</ref> |
The '''Principality of Khachen''' ({{lang-hy|Խաչենի իշխանություն}}) was a [[medieval]] [[principality]], in part of historical [[Artsakh]] (present-day [[Nagorno-Karabakh]]).<ref>The New Encyclopedia Britannica by Robert MacHenry, Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc, Robert MacHenry, (1993) p.761</ref> |
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Its history is hazily recorded but remains of considerable political relevance today as both sides in the [[Nagorno-Karabagh War |Nagorno Karabagh conflict]] try to use fragments of archaeological 'proof' to underline their respective claims to that area. |
Its history is hazily recorded but remains of considerable political relevance today as both sides in the [[Nagorno-Karabagh War |Nagorno Karabagh conflict]] try to use fragments of archaeological and literary 'proof' to underline their respective claims to that area. |
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Azerbaijani sources <ref>Azerbaijan Guidebook (Fourth Edition), AzerOlympicInternational Publishing House (2007) p.237</ref> consider that Khachen was part of [[Caucasian Albania]]. |
Azerbaijani sources <ref>Azerbaijan Guidebook (Fourth Edition), AzerOlympicInternational Publishing House (2007) p.237</ref> consider that Khachen was part of [[Caucasian Albania]]. |
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Revision as of 08:23, 14 October 2007
The Principality of Khachen (Armenian: Խաչենի իշխանություն) was a medieval principality, in part of historical Artsakh (present-day Nagorno-Karabakh).[1]
Its history is hazily recorded but remains of considerable political relevance today as both sides in the Nagorno Karabagh conflict try to use fragments of archaeological and literary 'proof' to underline their respective claims to that area.
Azerbaijani sources [2] consider that Khachen was part of Caucasian Albania. Armenian sources place it in medieval Armenia[3] . The latter viewpoint is supported by a letter from the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII addressed to the prince of Khachen with the inscription "To Prince of Khachen, Armenia."[4][5] According to Abū Dulaf, an Arab traveller of the time, Khachen was an "Armenian principality immediately south of Barda'a".[6] Azerbaijani historians argue that travellers in that era refered to virtually any Caucasian Christian as an Armenian so that while such sources were written in good faith they can't be seen as 'proof'.
References
- ^ The New Encyclopedia Britannica by Robert MacHenry, Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc, Robert MacHenry, (1993) p.761
- ^ Azerbaijan Guidebook (Fourth Edition), AzerOlympicInternational Publishing House (2007) p.237
- ^ Howorth, Henry Hoyle(1876) History of the Mongols: From the 9th to the 19th CenturyLongmans, Green, and Co. p. 14
- ^ Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, De ceremoniis aubae byzantinae (Ed. J.P.Migne. Patrologiae cursiis completus, Series Graeco-Latina, 112), p. 248
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- ^ Abū-Dulaf. Abū-Dulaf Misʻar Ibn Muhalhil's Travels in Iran (circa A.D. 950), Cairo University Press, 1955, p. 74
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