Akhury (Arguri, Acorhi, Akuri, Agguri, Arkuri), ancient Armenian settlement on Ararat, destroyed by the catastrophe of 1840, i. 183 seq.;
is said by the Armenians to have been built on the site of Noah’s vineyard, 183;
their attempt to connect it with the Armenian for “he has planted the vine” has probably led to a corruption of the name, ibid. note 4.
May it not be the Adduri of the Assyrian inscription of Shalmaneser II.? ibid.
A willow tree there was said to have sprung from a plank of the Ark, 183,
and the church to have been built on the site of Noah’s altar, erected on his departure from the Ark, ibid.
The date of the church, 184.
Pop. according to Dubois and Wagner, 183, 184 note 1.
There was also at A. a square fortress built of clay, 184;
and a summer palace for the Persian Sirdars of Erivan, ibid.
Account of the catastrophe of 1840, 185–187;
investigations undertaken by the Russian Govt., 187.
Divergent conclusions of Wagner and Abich as to character of convulsion, 188.
What remains of the ancient settlement at the present time, 192, 193.
The old cemetery with the graves of seven brothers said to have been killed by a single snake, 193
Akhury, chasm of, Ararat. Entrance to the chasm, i. 184;
Kurdish village at the mouth of the chasm, 192;
excursion up the ravine, 193;
the peculiar formation of a side valley, ibid.;
which probably owes its distinctive features to the action of ice, 194;
arrival at St. Jacob’s Well and the sacred rose bush, ibid.,
elevation of the site, 195.
The boulders covering the bottom of the ravine are worn by the action of ice and water, 195.
According to Abich the long ridges which appear in his illustration were composed of dirty glacier ice, covered with stone and débris, 195;
but we did not see any ice in the trough of the chasm, 196,
though we admired a lake of glacier water, ibid.
Akhury, New, settlement of Tartars on Ararat, i. 193;
pop., ibid.
Akhviran Pass into the Khinis Plain, ii. 249, 252, 373
Akhviran, village of, ii. 278
Ak Köpri, crag of near Van, ii. 111, 112 note 1
Ak Köpri, river, ii. 112
Ak-kul (Gubudgokh) Mt., west of Akhtamar, ii. 137
Akrag, Armenian village on the Murad near Shakhberat, ii. 351
Akstafa river, tributary to the Kur, ii. 39, 40, 437