Phrygia According to the Works of Khorenatsi and Shirakatsi

H. Harutyunyan
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“Ancient Armenian Geography” (or “Ashkharatsuits”, literally — “World Map”) calls Phrygia the fifth among all the countries of Universal Asia, which is located between Lycia and Paphlagonia. Partly based on “The Geography” by Ptolemy, “Ancient Armenian Geography” complements the Greek author with its information. Outlining the borders of Phrygia, “Ashkharatsuits” shows the territorial limits that this state reached in the first half of the I millennium BC (especially in the 8th–6th centuries). These centuries can be characterized as the “golden era” of Phrygia since almost all of western Asia Minor was part of this kingdom, and Phrygia reached its apogee during this period. The authors of the Armenian source do not mention any historical person and speak exclusively about geography (administrative territorial divisions, urban map orography, hydrography, plains, etc.). All the data of the Armenian text have been scrupulously examined and compared/collated with the information of Ptolemy, as well as with the information ranging from the Bible and Strabo’s “Geography” to the works of the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus. Only a hermeneutic approach to the issue will make it possible to remove all the “brackets” since if the main text of “Ashkharatsuits” was written in the 5th century by Khorenatsi, then from a geographical perspective the source was supplemented in the 7th century by Shirakatsi. Information about the administrative division of Onoratia is also important, as well as its historical and geographical description — all this sheds light on the problem of studying both Onoratia and Phrygia. “Ashkharatsuits” traces the evolution undergone by Phrygia during its history.
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根据Khorenatsi和Shirakatsi的作品
“古亚美尼亚地理”(或“Ashkharatsuits”,字面意思是“世界地图”)称弗里吉亚是亚洲所有国家中的第五国,位于吕西亚和帕弗拉哥尼亚之间。部分基于托勒密的《地理学》,《古代亚美尼亚地理学》补充了希腊作者的信息。“Ashkharatsuits”概述了弗里吉亚的边界,显示了这个国家在公元前1千年上半叶(特别是在8 - 6世纪)所达到的领土界限。这几个世纪可以被描述为弗里吉亚的“黄金时代”,因为几乎整个小亚细亚西部都是这个王国的一部分,弗里吉亚在这一时期达到了顶峰。亚美尼亚资料的作者没有提到任何历史人物,只谈地理(行政领土划分、城市地貌图、水文、平原等)。亚美尼亚文本的所有数据都经过严格的检查,并与托勒密的信息,以及从圣经和斯特拉波的“地理”到罗马历史学家Ammianus Marcellinus的作品等信息进行了比较/整理。只有用解释学的方法来解决这个问题,才有可能删除所有的“括号”,因为如果《阿什哈拉集》的主要文本是在5世纪由Khorenatsi写的,那么从地理的角度来看,该来源在7世纪由Shirakatsi补充。关于奥诺拉提亚行政区划的信息,以及它的历史和地理描述也很重要——所有这些都阐明了研究奥诺拉提亚和弗里吉亚的问题。《阿什哈拉服》追溯了弗里吉亚在历史上的演变。
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