January 2015
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207 Reads
Journal of Asian History
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January 2015
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207 Reads
Journal of Asian History
December 2008
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92 Reads
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2 Citations
Iran and the Caucasus
This paper discusses several toponyms in Chinese sources, which may possibly be identified with Armenia. First, Aman country, which can be found in the "History of the Later Han" (compiled 3rd-5th centuries) and in the "Account of the Wei Dynasty" (compiled between 239 and 265), is discussed, and it is suggested that there are reasons for an identification, though doubts remain. Armenia was well known by the Mongols and the "Korean Worldmap", which originates in Chinese geographical scholarship during the Mongol period and depicts possibly even Greater and Lesser Armenia. Another source of that period that mentions Armenia is "Muslim Prescriptions" (Huihui yaofang), which names Armenian materia medica known in China. Finally, two other Chinese geographical texts of the 16th and early 18th century that deal with Armenia and the Caucasus region are discussed. This paper shows that Armenia was described in Chinese texts since at least the Mongol period, and that China had a profound knowledge of the geographical situation in Western Asia.
September 2007
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Iranian Studies
... Friedrich Hirth (1885: 39, 154; see also Kauz/Liu Yingsheng 2008: 64) identifies Anxi, here, with Hecatompylos, Aman with Ecbatana (modern Hamadan), Sibin whith Ctesiphon (32 km southeast of modern Baghdad, in east-central Iraq), and Yuluo with Hira. 5 He presumed that Aman is the city of Ecbatana for its similarity in writing and because it was "the first centre of population on the road west of Hekatompylos". 6 Ralph Kauz and Liu Yingsheng (2008) believe that a number of reasons support an equation of Aman with Armenia. They reason that since a foreign ending [-r] was rather transcribed with a [-n] during the Han period (for example, Anxi for Arsace), the Chinese character 阿蠻 should be pronounced as Anman, which corresponds with Armenia (ibid.: 63). ...
December 2008
Iran and the Caucasus