Somkhiti
Somkhiti (Georgian: Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "IPA".) was an ambiguous geographic term used in medieval and early modern Georgian historical sources to refer to Armenia on one hand and to the Armeno-Georgian marchlands along the river valleys of Debed and Khrami on the other hand. In the 18th century, Somkhiti was largely replaced with Somkheti (Georgian: Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "IPA".) as a Georgian exonym for Armenia, but it continued, for some time, to denote the frontier region which is currently divided between Lori, Armenia, and Kvemo Kartli, Georgia. This patch of land was sometimes referred to as "Georgian Armenia" in the 19th-century European sources.[1]
Etymology
The term "Somkhiti"/"Somkheti" is presumed by modern scholars to have been derived from "Sukhmi" or "Sokhmi", the name of an ancient land located by the Assyrian and Urartian records along the upper Euphrates.[2] According to Professor David Marshall Lang, Template:Quote
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References
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- ↑ "Georgia", in Encyclopædia Metropolitana, ed. by Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose and Henry John Rose (1845), p. 538.
- ↑ G. Melikishvili, Nairi-Urartu (Tbilisi, 1954), pp. 418-19, cited in Suny, Ronald Grigor (1994), The Making of the Georgian Nation, p. 344, n. 20. Indiana University Press, Template:ISBN.
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Further reading
- The Georgian Chronicles, TITUS (Online Version).