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Movses Kaghankatvatsi (Armenian: Մովսես Կաղանկատվացի), also referred to as Movses Daskhurantsi (Armenian: Մովսես Դասխուրանցի), was an indigenous historian of Caucasian Albania.[1]. According to many sources he was Armenian historian of Caucasian Albania.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Other sources state that he was Caucasian Albanian by ethnic origin.[21][22]
Controversy of name
This 7th century historian is associated with the historical compilation known as The History of the Country of Albania [20]. The identity of the author as well as his writings has been subject to scholarly discussion for decades [20]. The first historian to mention this author was Mkhitar Gosh, referring to him as Movses Daskhurantsi, a name that does not appear anywhere else[20]. However, a later historian, Kirakos Gandzaketsi, referred to a statement in the History itself, to attribute the name of the author as Movses Kaghankatvatsi [20]. The statement in question (Book II, ch. 11) says:
When the enemy became aware of what had happened, they pursued them and overtook a group of them at the foot of the mountain opposite the large village of Kaghankatuk, which is in the same province of Uti where I too am from.
However, scholars question the content of this passage
[20]. It is unknown whether the “I” in question was the original author or someone else
[20]. Moreover, the passage suggests the author is from the province of Uti, and not necessarily from Kaghankatuk
[20].
Date and authorship of his The History of the Country of Albania
The primary work associated with this author, The History of the Country of Albania is subject to contreversy as well. The attribution of the work to a single author was rejected from the beginning[20]. Movses narrates the Khazar invasion of Transcaucasia and other events up to the 7th century in Book I and II of History.[20]
However, Book III of his History differs from the previous ones in style of writing[23] and date[20]. It deals with the Caspian expeditions of the Rus and their conquest of Partav in the 10th century[20].
Because of such time lapse and difference in style, attribution of the work to a single author seems impossible[20]. Some have tried to solve this dilemma by attributing Book I and II to Kaghankatvatsi and Book III of the compilation to Daskhurantsi.[20]
References
- ^ Vladimir Minorsky. "Caucasica IV", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 15, No. 3. (1953), p. 504
- ^ Template:Tr icon İstanbul Üniversitesi İslâm Tetkikleri Enstitüsü (1953). İslâm Tetkikleri Enstitüsü dergisi. İstanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi
Matbaası. pp. p. 35.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help); line feed character in|publisher=at position 19 (help) - ^ Vasiliev, A.A. (1951). The Second Russian Attack on Constantinople. Dumbarton Oaks Papers Vol. 6. pp. p. 181.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help) - ^ Underwood, Paul A. (1950). The Fountain of Life in the Manuscript of the Gospels. Dumbarton Oaks Papers Vol. 5. pp. p. 96.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help) - ^ Cameron, Averil (1969). Agathias of the Sassanians. Dumbarton Oaks Papers Vol. 23. pp. p. 153.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help) - ^ Oshanin, Lev Vasilievich (1964). Anthropological Composition of the Population of Central Asia, and the Ethnogenesis of of Its Peoples. Peabody Museum. pp. p. 24.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help) - ^ Société belge d'études byzantines, Centre national de recherches byzantines, Byzantine Institute of America, with
Contributor Paul
Graindor, Henri Grégoire (1924). Byzantion: revue internationale des études Byzantines. pp. p. 72.
{{cite book}}:|last=has generic name (help);|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help); line feed character in|last=at position 114 (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Template:Hu iconBalás, Gábo (1988). A Székely művelődés évszázadai. Panoráma. pp. p. 14.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help) - ^ Laufer, Berthold. Sino-Iranica. Harvard University. pp. p. 594.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help) - ^ Template:De icon Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Kommission für Byzantinistik, Universität Wien Institut für Byzantinistik, Universität Wien Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik (1981). Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik. Verlag der
Österreichischen
Akademie der
Wissenschaften. pp. p. 5.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help); line feed character in|publisher=at position 11 (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Template:De icon Asia Major, August Fischer, Erich Bräunlich (1964). Islamica. pp. p. 150.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Wexler, Paul (2002). Two-Tiered Relaxification in Yiddish: Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian dialect. Walter de Gruyter. pp. p. 517. ISBN 3110172585.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help) - ^ Template:Pl icon Uniwersytet Łódzki (1983). Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Lodz: Uniwersytet. pp. p. 90.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help) - ^ Kushnareva, Karinė Khristoforovna (1997). The Southern Caucasus in Prehistory. Univ. of Pennsylvania
Museum History. pp. p. 196. ISBN 0924171502.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help); line feed character in|publisher=at position 22 (help) - ^ Template:Hy icon Svazyan, H. Մովսես Կաղանկատվացի (Movses Kaghankatvatsi). Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. vol. viii. Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 1982 pp. 41-42
- ^ Template:De icon Gesellschaft, Görres. Oriens Christianus. Leipzig, Germany: O. Harrassowitz 1905, p. 274
- ^ Template:Fr icon Vavřínek, Vladimír. Byzantinoslavica. Prague: Czechoslovakia Academy of Sciences, 1929 p. 363
- ^ Oganesyan, Hrant Abgarovich. The Museums of Yerevan. Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 1986 p. 8
- ^ Vladimir Minorsky. "Caucasica IV", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 15, No. 3. (1953), p. 504
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Hacikyan, Agop Jack (2000). The Heritage of Armenian Literature. Wayne State University Press. pp. p. 171-172. ISBN 0814330231.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author link=(help) - ^ К.В.Тревер. Очерки по Истории и культуре Кавказской Албании IV В. до н. э. - VII в. н. э. (источники и литература). Издание Академии наук СССР, М.-Л., 1959
- ^ Zaza Aleksidze. Fundamentals of an Electronic Documentation of Caucasian Languages and Cultures
- ^ Hewsen, Robert H. (1964). Notes and Communications. London: Bulletin of Oriental and African Studies, University of London vol. 27
Museum History. pp. pp. 151-156.
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Literature
- Template:Ru iconMovses Kaghankatvatsi (1984). The History of the Country of Albania (translated by Š.V. Smbatian). Yerevan: Matenadaran.
{{cite book}}: External link in|title= - Template:Ka iconMovses Kaghankatvatsi (1985). The History of Albania (translated by L. Davlianidze-Tatishvili). Tbilisi.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Template:En iconMovsēs Dasxuranc'i (1961). The History of the Caucasian Albanians (translated by C. F. J. Dowsett). London: (London Oriental Series, Vol. 8).