Somkhiti

Somkhiti

Somkhiti ( _ka. სომხითი, IPA2|sɔmxitʰi) was an ambiguous geographic term used in medieval and early modern Georgian historical sources to refer to Armenia on one hand and to the Armeno-Georgian marchlands along the river valleys of Debed and Khrami on the other hand. In the 18th century, "Somkhiti" was largely replaced with "Somkheti" (სომხეთი, /sɔmxɛtʰi/) as a Georgian exonym for Armenia, but it continued, for some time, to denote the frontier region which is currently divided between Lori, Armenia, and Kvemo Kartli, Georgia. The populace of Somkhitiin its regional sensewas called Somkhitari (sing., სომხითარი), while Armenians in general were (and are) referred to in Georgian as Somekhi (sing., სომეხი). [Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), "Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts", pp. 137, 176, 224, 270, 315, 371. Peeters Publishers, ISBN 90-429-1318-5.]

Etymology

The term "Somkhiti"/"Somkheti" is presumed by modern scholars to have been derived from "Sukhmi" or "Sokhmi", the name of an ancient land located by the Assyrian and Urartian records along the upper Euphrates. [G. Melikishvili, Nairi-Urartu (Tbilisi, 1954), pp. 418-19, cited in Suny, Ronald Grigor (1994), "The Making of the Georgian Nation", p. 344, n. 20. Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253209153.] According to Professor David Marshall Lang,

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