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Armenian Pontus
Richard G. Hovannisian
The Trebizond-Black Sea Communities
Description
From early antiquity, the Armenian people developed a rich and distinctive culture
on the great highland plateau extending from eastern Asia Minor to the Caucasus.
On that crossroad, they interacted on many levels with civilizations of the Orient and
Occident.
The golden plains, river valleys, and mountain ribs of the Armenian Plateau are
separated from the lush, semitropical Black Sea littoral by the imposing Pontic
mountain range. Nevertheless, associations between Armenia and Pontus date back
to the era of the Persian Achaemenian Empire beginning in the sixth century
B.C.Later in 401-400 B.C., the Greek general Xenophon traversed the Armenian
Plateau as an escape route from the Persian heartlands to Trapezus (Trebizond) on
the Black Sea, his account of that adventurous journey affording one of the earliest
written descriptions of ancient Armenia. Economic and cultural interaction between
Armenia and Pontus increased during the centuries of Roman dominion in Asia Minor
and especially during the time of the medieval Greco/Byzantine Empire of
Trebizond. Thriving, enlightened Armenian communities developed all along the
extensive narrow corridor from Batum in the east to Samsun and Sinope in the
west, while the curious Armenian enclave of Hamshen in the eastern Pontic
hinterland retained much of its Armenian character long after its population was
forcibly Islamized in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The UCLA conference series, “Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces,” is organized
by the Holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian
History with the purpose of exploring and illuminating the historical, political,
cultural, religious, social, and economic legacy of a people rooted for millennia on
the Armenian highland.
Armenian Pontus is the eighth of the conference proceedings to be published.
Scholars from various disciplines offer the story of the Armenian communities in the
Pontus-Black Sea region across the centuries until their violent elimination in the
first decades of the twentieth century.
More at this link:
Edit: I have no idea why the text came out like this.Really strange.
Richard G. Hovannisian
The Trebizond-Black Sea Communities
Description
From early antiquity, the Armenian people developed a rich and distinctive culture
on the great highland plateau extending from eastern Asia Minor to the Caucasus.
On that crossroad, they interacted on many levels with civilizations of the Orient and
Occident.
The golden plains, river valleys, and mountain ribs of the Armenian Plateau are
separated from the lush, semitropical Black Sea littoral by the imposing Pontic
mountain range. Nevertheless, associations between Armenia and Pontus date back
to the era of the Persian Achaemenian Empire beginning in the sixth century
B.C.Later in 401-400 B.C., the Greek general Xenophon traversed the Armenian
Plateau as an escape route from the Persian heartlands to Trapezus (Trebizond) on
the Black Sea, his account of that adventurous journey affording one of the earliest
written descriptions of ancient Armenia. Economic and cultural interaction between
Armenia and Pontus increased during the centuries of Roman dominion in Asia Minor
and especially during the time of the medieval Greco/Byzantine Empire of
Trebizond. Thriving, enlightened Armenian communities developed all along the
extensive narrow corridor from Batum in the east to Samsun and Sinope in the
west, while the curious Armenian enclave of Hamshen in the eastern Pontic
hinterland retained much of its Armenian character long after its population was
forcibly Islamized in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The UCLA conference series, “Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces,” is organized
by the Holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian
History with the purpose of exploring and illuminating the historical, political,
cultural, religious, social, and economic legacy of a people rooted for millennia on
the Armenian highland.
Armenian Pontus is the eighth of the conference proceedings to be published.
Scholars from various disciplines offer the story of the Armenian communities in the
Pontus-Black Sea region across the centuries until their violent elimination in the
first decades of the twentieth century.
More at this link:
Edit: I have no idea why the text came out like this.Really strange.
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