'The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.' [‎95] (144/905)

CHAP. V.]
SUBDIVISIONS OF ARMENIA.
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both were sometimes subdivided into First, Second, and Third
Armenia: a fourth division was added by Moses Choronensis
and others. This last division, being on the eastern side of the
Euphrates, constitutes in reality part of Armenia Major; while
Armenia Minor is confined to the country westward of the
Euphrates, and is composed only of the three subdivisions
above alluded to.
Armenia Major, in the time of its greatest prosperity, Extent and
extended from 36° 50' to 48° N. lat.; and eastward, in one Armenia 68 of
direction, from 38° to about 48° 40' E. long., with a surface of^ 0 "'
nearly 84,756 square miles of diversified country. 1 The general
limits of this territory will probably be best understood by
considering the Euphrates to be its western boundary from
Sumei'sat until a few miles south of Erzingan, where the
boundary quits the river, and preserves the direction of
Tarabuzun, till it meets the mountains southward of Gumish
Khanah. There it takes a north-easterly direction along the
range, till it skirts the northern extremity of the district of
Kars, and from thence it passes onward to the river Kur, a
few miles below Tifiis: from hence it follows this river to its
estuary. After continuing along the Caspian shore for a short
distance, the line of demarcation strikes into the interior in the
direction of Tabriz, and the southern part of the district of
Julamerik. It next passes south of Se'rt through the district
of Diyar Bekr, and finally rejoins the Euphrates at Sumeisat.
The district lying on the western side of the Euphrates,
between Caesarea of Cappadocia and Pontus, was in early
times called First Armenia. That which extended from
Pontus to Melitene bore the name of Second Armenia; and Boundaries of
the third, which had Cilicia to the south, and Second Armenia Minor"* 1
to the north, touched the Euphrates on the east, and extended
westward beyond the towns of 'Ain-zarbah and Sis. As these
three provinces, properly speaking, formed what was afterwards
called Armenia Minor, or the territory westward of Euphrates,
it will be sufficient, in describing the limits, to indicate the
1 Strabo makes it 200 schoens long by 100 wide, which would give a much
greater superficies.—Lib. XI., p. 530.
*