فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Statement of the Problem: The Armenian region with an area of about 30,000 square kilometers is located in the northwest of the Iranian plateau in the South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and on the border between Asia and Europe. Today, this land has certain geographical boundaries and parts, but it has been introduced differently in earlier geographical and historical texts.The present territory of Armenia includes the regions of Georgia in the north, the Khanate of Yerevan in the center, the Khanate of Nakhchivan in the south, and the Khanate of Karabakh in the southeast of Armenia. All regions are mentioned in some works of Muslim historians and geographers. They have mentioned a special name for each region.Purpose: The purpose of this study is to study the historical geography of the Armenian region from the perspective of Muslim historians and geographers from the first century to the ninth century AH (i.e. the period in which most historical and geographical books and writings have been recorded and written). The method and approach of this research are fundamental and methodologically descriptive and analytical based on the method of studying the primary library resources.Results: The findings of this study show that the historical geography of Armenia, its name, and geographical boundaries of this land based on the earlier historical and geographical texts are sometimes presented in a different way from the current situation of this land. In the present study, for the first time, the historical geography of the Armenian region as a significant and strategically important region has been studied in detail. The region has been geographically and religiously disputed by neighboring powers and governments during its thousands of years of history.