Mount Imeon is an age-old name for the Central Asian circuitous of abundance ranges absolute the present Hindu Kush, Pamir and Tian Shan, extending from the Zagros Mountains in the southwest to the Altay Mountains in the northeast, and affiliated to the Kunlun, Karakoram and Himalayas to the southeast. See additionally Roof of the World.
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Geography
A abundant description of the aerial area and its bodies was accustomed in the Armenian cartography basis Ashharatsuyts accounting by Anania Shirakatsi in the 7th aeon AD12 (or possibly by Moses of Chorene in the 5th century.3) According to the aboriginal Ashharatsuyts mapping reconstructed by Acad. Suren T. Eremian, the abundance arrangement was disconnected into four branches (green dots in the map) agnate appropriately to four present ranges:
Southern Imeon (‘Emavon’ in Armenian): Hindu Kush;
Southeastern Imeon: Badakhshan and Pamir;
Northern Imeon: Alay Mountains and the Tian Shan ranges anchored arctic of Fergana Valley;
Northeastern Imeon: axial and eastern allotment of Tian Shan
The mountains belted the acreage of China in the east, India in the south, Aria in the west (the arena about avant-garde Herat, apparent as ‘Arya’ on Eremian's map1), and Khwarezm in the northwest.
The abundance arrangement was beyond by a articulation of the Silk Road arch westwards from Yarkand to the Stone Tower in eastern Pamir (mentioned by Ptolemy, and apparent on the Ashharatsuyts map too), again through the Wakhan Corridor and Badakhshan to ability the age-old above burghal of Balh (Balkh). An another Northern Silk Road4 went from Kashgar to high Alay Valley, again beyond the Alay Mountains to access Fergana Valley.
Mount Imeon was acclaimed for its lapis lazuli deposits in western Badakhshan, adumbrated on Shirakatsi’s map. The mines at Sar-e-Sang accept been bearing lapis lazuli for one millennia now, bartering the age-old civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Rome, and still acquiescent the world’s finest lapis. The Venetian charlatan Marco Polo visited the mines in 1271 during his acclaimed adventure to China, afterward the Silk Road to cantankerous the mountains by way of Wakhan.5
Southern Imeon (‘Emavon’ in Armenian): Hindu Kush;
Southeastern Imeon: Badakhshan and Pamir;
Northern Imeon: Alay Mountains and the Tian Shan ranges anchored arctic of Fergana Valley;
Northeastern Imeon: axial and eastern allotment of Tian Shan
The mountains belted the acreage of China in the east, India in the south, Aria in the west (the arena about avant-garde Herat, apparent as ‘Arya’ on Eremian's map1), and Khwarezm in the northwest.
The abundance arrangement was beyond by a articulation of the Silk Road arch westwards from Yarkand to the Stone Tower in eastern Pamir (mentioned by Ptolemy, and apparent on the Ashharatsuyts map too), again through the Wakhan Corridor and Badakhshan to ability the age-old above burghal of Balh (Balkh). An another Northern Silk Road4 went from Kashgar to high Alay Valley, again beyond the Alay Mountains to access Fergana Valley.
Mount Imeon was acclaimed for its lapis lazuli deposits in western Badakhshan, adumbrated on Shirakatsi’s map. The mines at Sar-e-Sang accept been bearing lapis lazuli for one millennia now, bartering the age-old civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Rome, and still acquiescent the world’s finest lapis. The Venetian charlatan Marco Polo visited the mines in 1271 during his acclaimed adventure to China, afterward the Silk Road to cantankerous the mountains by way of Wakhan.5
Population
According to Ashharatsuyts12 the Central Asian area west of Imeon was inhabited in Antiquity by fifteen old artisan and trading nations: Massagetae, Bulgars (Bulhi in Armenian; Shirakatsi uses the aforementioned name for the Bulgars who inhabited the valleys of Northern Caucasus at his time, and according to Moses of Chorene had acclimatized additionally the Bulgarian - Armenian belt of Vanand afore that6), Khwarezmians (‘Horozmiki’) etc., and by forty-three drifting tribes including the Hephthalites and Alchons.Apart from Anania Shirakatsi, added historiographers in backward Antiquity and the Aboriginal Middle Ages such as Agathias of Myrina, Theophylact Simocatta, and Michael the Syrian additionally analyze Mount Imeon as an aboriginal citizenry of the age-old Bulgars - area the age-old Kingdom of Balhara was located789
Honour (Bulgarian)
Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is called afterwards Mount Imeon - Bulgarian honour (from the links of the commonwealth of Balhara to the Bulgars).
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