{"id":1023,"date":"2018-01-27T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2024-07-10T18:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:00:17","slug":"masisi-and-sisiani-on-early-18th-century-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2018\/01\/27\/masisi-and-sisiani-on-early-18th-century-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Masisi and Sisiani on Early 18th Century Map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2024\/01\/IAS-Fragment-of-the-18th-century-map-by-Vakhushti-Bagrationi-in-Latin-transcription.-Published-on-Twitter-768x432.jpeg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2024\/01\/IAS-Fragment-of-the-18th-century-map-by-Vakhushti-Bagrationi-in-Latin-transcription.-Published-on-Twitter-768x432.jpeg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Fragment of the 18th century map by Vakhushti Bagrationi in Latin transcription. 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These maps were subsequently transcribed into Latin letters but with Georgian geographic terms retained and published in France.<\/p>\n<p>The map provides a detailed description of the region between the Black and Caspian Seas. It also offers a bit of mystery. What is now known as Mountainous Karabakh \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/armenian.usc.edu\/focus-on-karabakh\/research\/origins-geographic-term-karabakh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">then known to Armenians\u00a0<\/a>as Artsakh, Khachen and Aghvank \u2013 is identified as \u2018Masisi\u2019 and \u2018Sisiani\u2019 in the map.<\/p>\n<p>Also visible is \u2018Djavanchiri,\u2019 located at the confluence of Arax and Kura rivers, it likely refers to the lands of the Jevanshir tribe that produced the three khans of Karabakh (1750-1822). The map includes \u2018Karabagi,\u2019 appropriately placed in the valley along the west bank of Kura. Only with the extension of the Karabakh Khanate into the mountainous area in the mid-18th century, would the term \u2018Karabakh\u2019 also extend into the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Masis and Sis are the names Armenians use to identify the peaks of Mount Ararat.\u00a0However, as historian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ru.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81_(%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Russell<\/a>\u00a0notes Armenians have historically used \u2018Masis\u2019 to refer to various mountainous regions throughout the Armenian highland. Sisiani also recalls Sisakan, the ancient\/medieval name for the present-day<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syunik_Province\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Syunik<\/a>province. The present-day town of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sisian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sisian<\/a>\u00a0was so named only in 1940 in reference to the ancient province.<\/p>\n<p>Bagrationi\u2019s notion of Masisi\u2019s location echoed the work by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vostlit.info\/Texts\/rus8\/Mroveli\/text.phtml?id=959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Georgian historian Leonti Mroveli<\/a>, dated to the 11th century, who also treated mount Ararat and mount Masis as two distinct mountains located at considerable distance from one another.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear if the use of Masis in reference to historic Artsakh in this map is long-forgotten history or merely a cartographic error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":1024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-focus-on-karabakh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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