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    Anania Shirakatsi (Old Armenian: Անանիա Շիրակացի, Anania Širakac’i, anglicized: Ananias of Shirak) was a 7th-century Armenian polymath and natural philosopher...
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    Shirak (Armenian: Շիրակ, Armenian pronunciation: [ʃiˈɾɑk] ) is a province (marz) of Armenia. It is located in the north-west of the country, bordering...
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    Gyumri (category Populated places in Shirak Province)
    second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th...
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  • geographical provenance, e.g. Movses Khorenatsi (from Khoren) and Anania Shirakatsi (from Shirak). The prefix Տեր ([ter]), which comes from how one addresses...
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    authors writing directly in Greek, such as David the Invincible or Anania of Shirak, are considered to have been part of this school. In the first part...
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  • within the Shirak district and near the city of Ani. Arkina is best known for being the temporary seat of the Catholicosate after Ananias I of Armenia...
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    the east, the Akhurian River on the west, Ararat Plain on the south, and Shirak Plain on the north. The circumference of the massif is around 200 km (120 mi)...
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    Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, map "Armenia according to Anania of Shirak’ Robert H. Hewsen, "Ethno-History and the Armenian Influence upon the...
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    complex was made up of the Surp Astvatsatsin church, the chapel of Saint Anania, as well as of chambers for the members of the congregation and the prelacy...
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  • 479-486; Michael E. Stone, "Armenian Canon Lists II—The Stichometry of Anania of Shirak (c. 615-c. 690 CE.)." Harvard Theological Review 68.3-4 (1975): 253-260...
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