Armenian Baghesh/Bitlis and Taron/Mush, Richard Hovannisian (softcover)

The UCLA conference series, “Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces,” was organized with the purpose of exploring and illuminating the historical, political, cultural, religious, social, and economic legacy of a people rooted for millennia in the Armenian Plateau.

Armenian Baghesh/Bitlis and Taron/Mush was the second of the conference proceedings to be published. This beautiful, rugged land in the south-central sector of historical Armenia is known to have been one of the earliest centers of Armenian settlement. It was here that evolved Baghesh and Taron, which became a part of the medieval principality of Turuberan and later the administrative districts of Bitlis and Mush.