Gardman
Gardman (Template:Langx), also known as Gardmank' or Gardmanadzor, was one of the eight cantons of the ancient province of Utik' in the Kingdom of Armenia and simultaneously, together with the canton of Tuch'katak, an Armenian principality.Template:Sfn It roughly corresponded within the Gazakh, Shamkir, Aghstafa, Dashkasan, Goygol, Tovuz, Gadabay districts of modern-day Azerbaijan and the original Tavush Region of Armenia. Gardman was also the name of the central fortress of the canton.
HistoryEdit
In the view of historian Robert H. Hewsen, the name Gardman might be of Georgian origin.Template:Sfn Many contemporary Armenian authors referred to Gardman as a part of the Template:Transliteration ('province, land') of Artsakh.Template:Sfn During the reign of the Arsacid kings of Armenia (66–428 A.D.), Gardman was the seat of the Template:Transliteration of Utik'. For this reason, Utik' was sometimes called Template:Transliteration, or the principality of the Gardmanians.Template:Sfn Gardman was acquired by Caucasian Albania in 387 following the partition of Armenia.Template:Sfn In the seventh century, the local house of Gardman was replaced by the Mihranid family (of Persian or Parthian origin),Template:Sfn which later became the ruling dynasty in the region of Arran. During the rule of the Mihranids (7th-8th centuries), the region of Utik' came to be referred to as Gardman.Template:Sfn
The region was conquered by the Arabs in 855. Contemporary Armenian historians repeatedly noted the presence of two well known locations in Gardman: a fortress called Getabakk' (in the current-day Azerbaijani region of Gadabay) and a copper mine.Template:Sfn
In 982, Gardman and Parisos, the northern district of Artsakh, became the small Armenian kingdom of Parisos, which lasted until 1017 and thereafter became part of the Kingdom of Lori.Template:Sfn In 1601, the princely family of Melik-Shahnazaryan established the melikdom of Gardman. The ruling family belonged to a branch of the House of Khachen, and their residence was in the village of Voskanapat (and for this reason, the statelet was sometimes referred to as the Voskanapat melikdom).Template:Sfn The territorial rights of the meliks were confirmed after the Russian Empire took control of the region in the early nineteenth century.Template:Sfn
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