Provinces of Historic Armenia

Greater Armenia is divided in the Ashkharhatsuyts, the geography of Anania Shirakatsi, into fifteen provinces, and the list is given also by Movses Khorenatsi. The provinces together held 201 cantons, which are called gavars.¹

The fifteen are Upper Armenia, Tsopk, Aghdznik, Turuberan, Mokk, Korchayk, Parskahayk, Vaspurakan, Syunik, Artsakh, Paytakaran, Utik, Gugark, Tayk and Ayrarat.¹ The canton of Taron lay in Turuberan.

In 387 the Persian king Shapur III and the Roman emperor Theodosius agreed to divide Armenia into two zones. The line ran through Karin, now Erzurum, in the north and through Amida, now Diyarbakir, in the south. Persia received most of the country, including the northern and northwestern provinces that adjoined Iberia and Colchis.² The province of Gugark passed under the suzerainty of Iberia, which is Eastern Georgia.³

The modern provinces of the Republic of Armenia are a different division, described in Provinces of Armenia.