Armenia: A Historical Atlas, Robert H. Hewsen (hardcover)

In this atlas, historian and geographer Robert H. Hewsen traces Armenia’s turbulent history, from ancient times to the present day through more than 230 full-color maps packed with information about physical geography, demography, and sociopolitical, religious, cultural, and linguistic history. Robert Hewsen’s work is the first definitive historical atlas of Armenia and the first such atlas to be published for any of the former Soviet republics.

The book is divided into five sections, each of which begins with a chronology of important dates and a historical introduction to the period. Specialized maps include Ptolemy’s second-century map of Armenia, as well as maps of Roman, Cilician, Ottoman, tsarist, and Soviet Armenia. Other maps show the Persian khanate of Erevan, the Caucasian campaigns of World War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian monuments in Turkey and Transcaucasia, the worldwide diaspora, ground plans of selected cities, and plans of the great monastery of Echmiadzin in 1660, 1890, and 1990. The atlas concludes with maps portraying the Karabagh war and the new Republic of Armenia.