Միջազգային հռչակի տեր բյուզանդագետն ու հայագետը

Nicholas Adonts (1871–1942) is one of the outstanding Armenian scholars who received an excellent education in Russia and Europe. During his studies at the University of St. Petersburg and later, when he improved his knowledge in well-known educational centers of Europe – in London, Paris, Vienna, Strasbourg and Munich, Adonts had the support of the great national benefactor Alexander Mantashiants. Eight volumes of Adonts’ works were published by Yerevan State University with the support of the Armenian branch of the Galust Gyulbenkian Foundation. Adonts left no autobiographical memories․ They would have been extremely interesting, since his life was really amazing. Tigran the Great (95–55 BC) was the most beloved historical figure of Adonts. He actually confirms that Tigran manifested himself as a world sovereign and enlightener, and his activities require new elucidation. Adonts presents the great deeds and military successes of the representatives of the princely house of Mamikonians in the Byzantine Empire. The study “The Fame of Bagratids” by Adonts is very interesting; it represents the branches of the Armenian royal house of Bagratids in Georgia, Caucasian Albania and Artsakh. In his extensive article “The Historical Basis and Ideological Value of the Novel David Bek”, the historian takes an exploratory approach while describing the historical events of the novel David Bek by Raffi. Especially rich is the heritage of the scientist in Byzantine studies, which has two branches of scientific and cognitive significance. Firstly, it presents important events of the history of Byzantium, and then the famous figures of this history, who were Armenians by nationality. In 1928 Adonts made a new discovery in Byzantine studies, exploring the “Historical basis of the Byzantine epic Digenis Acritas”. He proved that the epic poem was not Greek, since the homeland and place of activity of the main hero are the Euphrates valley, and his exploits take place in Western Armenia. Adonts was a devoted defendet of the Armenian Cause and dedicated many articles to this issue. Adonts left three monumental monographs as a legacy to science. These are: Armenia in the Era of Justinian (1908), Dionysius of Thrace and Armenian Commentators (1915) and the posthumously published Critical History of Armenia (1946). The scientific heritage of Adonts in the field of Byzantine studies and Armenology is rich with many scientific discoveries, whose value will be preserved forever.

Review of Uvarovistia (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Tettigoniinae): genetic data indicate a new cryptic species, Uvarovistia munzurensis sp.n.

Genus Uvarovistia ranged along the Zagros Mountain belt. We presented first genetic data from three species of the genus and a taxonomic rectification indicated by these data. Sequences of three mitochondrial and two nuclear gene segments were obtained from different populations. Phylogenetic and automatic species delimitation analyses consistently suggested three distinct phylogroups as U. zebra, U. satunini and the third a new species, U. munzurensis Uluar & Yahyaoğlu sp. n. Time estimation and population genetic analyses supported consistent results. The following conclusions were reached: (i) five species in the genus constitute two distinct species groups named as Zebra Group and Satunini Group, (ii) data suggest intra generic relationships as U. zebra + ((U. satunini + U. munzurensis) + (U. bakhtiara +U. iraka)), (iii) molecular clock estimations indicated a deep divergence time and no gene flow between U. satunini and U. munzurensis, (iv) although these two species cannot be clearly distinguished by morphology, range of U. munzurensis seems to be isolated from other by lowlands of Euphrates Valley, and (v) age of generic ancestor is around five million years a time corresponding to connection of Anatolian and Zagros plates, and genus radiated along Zagros belt after dispersal of ancestral stock here.

A Land in Between

The Orontes Valley in western Syria is a land ‘in between’, positioned between the small trading centres of the coast and the huge urban agglomerations of the Euphrates Valley and the Syro-Mesopotamian plains beyond. As such, it provides a critical missing link in our understanding of the archaeology of this region in the early urban age. A Land in Between documents the material culture and socio-political relationships of the Orontes Valley and its neighbours from the fourth through to the second millennium BCE. The authors demonstrate that the valley was an important conduit for the exchange of knowledge and goods that fuelled the first urban age in western Syria. This lays the foundation for a comparative perspective, providing a clearer understanding of key differences between the Orontes region and its neighbours, and insights into how patterns of material and political association changed over time.

ПолитическаяидентичностьСиро-Христианскогосоциума подвластью хулагуидских Ильханов(XIIIXIVвв.):некоторыенаблюдения

The article deals with a dramatically turbulent period in the history of Syriac Christianity, encompassing the late 13th and the early 14th centuries that coincided with the establishment, strengthening and collapse of the Mongol rule in Iran and Mesopotamia. The primary focus is on the two Syria communities the Western (Jacobite) and the Eastern (Assyrian) ones inhabiting the territories of modern North Iraq and South Turkey that were at the time one of the hotbeds of Christianity and homeland to numerous Arameic dialects. Unlike its neighbours, even though similar to them from the cultural an religious perspectives (especially the Armenians), the Syriac society showed an almost total absence of any clearcut traditional elite (to say nothing of aristocracy) that could have assumed administrative functions. Under these circumstances the Mongol invasion and the triumph of the Chinggisid rule in the Tigris Euphrates valley contributed to the formation, in the Eastern Syriac milieu, of a quasimonarchical form of administration that of the local princesgovernors (sing. malik, pl. muluk). For centuries to come the status of Malik passed through a long transformation in order to evolve from a bureaucratic figurehead (even notwithstanding the implied monarchial attributes) into a defacto local ruler of a highland community. The process of formation of the Malik rule and the peculiarities of Christian Malik rule in Mesopotamia is analysed through relevant data of the Syriac, Arab and Persian chroniclesСтатья посвящена драматически турбулентному периоду в история сирийского христианства, охватывающая конец 13го и начало 14 века, что совпало с установлением, усилением и крахом монгольского владычества в Иране и Месопотамия. Основное внимание уделяется двум сирийским общинам Западной (Якобитская) и Восточной (Ассирийская) населяющие территорию современного Северного Ирака и юга Турция, которая была в то время одним из очагов христианства и родиной многочисленных арамейских диалектов. В отличие от своих соседей, хотя подобно им с культурной и религиозной точек зрения (особенно армяне), сирийское общество показало почти полное отсутствие какихлибо четких традиционных элит (не говоря уже об аристократии), которые могли бы взять на себя административные функции. В этих условиях монгольское нашествие и триумф правления Чингизидов в долине ТиграЕвфрата способствовало формированию в Восточносирийской среде квазимонархической формы правления, администрация формировалась из местных князейнаместников (единсвт. Малик, множеств. Мулук). На протяжении веков статус Малика проходил через длительную трансформацию чтобы эволюционировать от бюрократического номинального руководителя (даже несмотря на подразумеваемые монархические атрибуты) в дефакто местного правителя. Процесс формирования правила Малика и особенности правление христианина Малика в Месопотамии анализируется с помощью соответствующих данных, взятых из сирийских, арабских и персидских хроник.

Submerged memories: Memory, history, and displacement around Lake Asad, Syria

Temporalizing frameworks promoted under Syria’s dominant Baʿth Party have significantly shaped representations of temporality and historicity of, and in, the inhabitants of northern Syria until the early twenty-first century. In particular, the construction of the Euphrates Dam, Baʿthist Syria’s showcase modernization project, between 1968 and 1973, provided a symbolically highly loaded pivotal point for a progressivist discourse about the national historical trajectory which incorporated assumptions of internal temporal heterogeneity in its very core: while it promoted the image of a progressive, modern Syrian nation, it simultaneously removed the inhabitants of this part of the country to the realm of the backward and obsolete recent past and present, thus devaluing their actual lifestyles and aspirations and legitimizing their physical displacement following the submersion of their villages and fields under the emergent lake. Before this background, this article draws on literature research and intermittent ethnographic fieldwork in Syria between 2001 and 2011 to ask how the submerged memories of these people were articulated 40 years after the flooding. By including written, oral, as well as embodied expressions, the article argues that diverse facets of remembering the past in the Euphrates valley were valued very unevenly and that the relations between them were gendered and political.