Chorzene(64 words)
[German version]
(Procop. Aed. 3,3; Chorzianene, Procop. Pers. 2,24; Armenian: Xorjean/Xorjayn). Region in Armenia, south of the upper course of the Euphrates on the river Gayl, modern Perisuyu, with Koloberd the capital. Modern Kiĝi in the centre of the Karagöl Daĝları south-west of Theodosiopolis (Erzurum), eastern Turkey.
Plontke-Lüning, Annegret (Jena)
Bibliography
R. H. Hewsen (ed.), The Geography of Ananias of Širak, 1991, 19, 154f.
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Plontke-Lüning, Annegret (Jena),
“Chorzene”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 31 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e233330>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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