INDEX
Abagha Plain, ii. 401
Abaran (Kasagh) river, i. 136, 242, 316
Abas, king of the Bagratid dynasty, i. 352, 390, 407
Abastuman, Russian watering place, i. 48, 53–55, 432
Abazbek, posting station, i. 84
Abbas, Shah of Persia, transports a colony of Armenians to Ispahan and carries off slabs from Edgmiatsin, i. 262, 264 note 5.
Comes into possession of Van, ii. 78.
Reputed to have taken Kars, i. 396
Abdul Miseh, grave of a supposed king of this name, ii. 133
Abdurrahman Gazi, valley and pass into Tekman from Erzerum, ii. 202
Abgar, king of Edessa, who is said to have corresponded with Christ, i. 278,
is claimed by the Armenians as one of their own royal line, ibid.
Receives St. Thaddeus and with his people embraces the Christian faith, ibid. and 277 note 2.
Under his successors his people lapse into polytheism, 278.
The authenticity of the story of Abgar is examined by Professor Carrière, who shows that Moses of Khorene used an Armenian version of this legend which began to form about A.D. 250, ibid. note 2