[15] See Curzon’s Persia, vol. i. p. 548. [↑]
[16] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 493. [↑]
[17] 2 Kings xix. 37; Moses of Khorene, i. 23. [↑]
[18] Saint Martin, Mémoires sur l’Arménie, i. 163. [↑]
[19] Faustus of Byzantium, iii. 9. [↑]
[20] For instance the Kurdish Beys of Zokh believe themselves to be descended from the dynasty of Sanasar. Again an Armenian convent, called Norshen, is held in reverence by both the Armenian and Kurdish inhabitants; and the name of that convent is believed to be a corruption of Nor-Shirakan or New Shirak—a name applied to the country by the earliest Armenian writers, Agathangelus (ch. cxxvi.) and Faustus (v. 9). [↑]
[21] John Katholikos, ch. xxviii. [↑]
[22] See especially Turkey, No. I. 1895, parts i. and ii. [↑]
[23] It may be found among the archives of the British Consulate at Erzerum. [↑]
[24] Chesney, Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris carried on by order of the British Government, London, 1850, 2 vols. folio with maps; Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition, London, 1868, 8vo. [↑]