Moschia
Moschia(Meskheti,possibly related toMushki) is a mountainous region ofGeorgiabetweenIberia,Armenia,andColchis.TheMoschian Mountainswere the connecting chain between the Caucasus andAnti-Taurus Mountains.The people of that area were known as the Moschi. They may have been connected to the Mushki.
Wilhelm Geseniussuggested that the Moschi were descended from the BiblicalMeshechtribe.
Strabomentions theMoschian Mountainsas joining theCaucasus(Geography,11.2.1). He says that the Moschian country lay above the rivers Phasis, Glaucus, and Hippus (Geography,11.2.17). In it "lies the temple of Leucothea, founded by Phrixus, and the oracle of Phrixus, where a ram is never sacrificed; it was once rich, but it was robbed in our time by Pharnaces, and a little later by Mithridates of Pergamum." (ibid).
According to the renowned scholar of the Caucasian studiesCyril Toumanoff,the Moschians were the early proto-Georgiantribes which were integrated into the first early Georgian state ofIberia.[1]
Mushki are mentioned in the cuneiform tablets ofTiglath-Pileser IofAssyriadating to 1115–1100 B.C. He led a campaign against them in the North ofCommageneand mountains of Georgia and Armenia. According toIgor Diakonoff,the Mushki possibly were speakers ofProto-Armenian,who carried their language from theBalkansacrossAsia Minor,mi xing withHurrians(andUrartians) andLuwiansalong the way.[2]However, the connection between the Mushki and Armenian languages is quite unclear and many modern scholars have rejected a direct linguistic relationship.[3][4][5][6]Additionally, genetic research does not support significant admixture into the Armenian nation after 1200 BCE, making the Mushki, if they indeed migrated from a Balkan or western Anatolian homeland during or after theBronze Age Collapse,unlikely candidates for the Proto-Armenians.[7][8]However, as others have placed (at least the Eastern) Mushki or Meskhi homeland in South Caucasus region mostly speaking Georgian language as their native.
Medieval maps mention with Moschi region Armenian and Iberian parts.[9]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^Cyril Toumanoff, Studies in Christian Caucasian History, p 80
- ^"Iran, Armenia and Georgia".IRAN, ARMENIA AND GEORGIA (Chapter 12) - The Cambridge History of Iran.The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press. 1983. pp. 505–536.doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521200929.016.ISBN9780521200929.
- ^Vavroušek P. (2010). "Frýžština".Jazyky starého Orientu.Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze. p. 129.ISBN978-80-7308-312-0.
- ^J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams. (1997).Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture.London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 419.ISBN9781884964985.
- ^Brixhe C. (2008). "Phrygian".The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor.New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 72.
- ^Kim Ronald I.Greco-Armenian. The persistence of a myth// Indogermanische Forschungen. — 2018. — 123. Band. — S. 247–271.
- ^Haber, Marc; Mezzavilla, Massimo; Xue, Yali; Comas, David; Gasparini, Paolo; Zalloua, Pierre; Tyler-Smith, Chris (2015)."Genetic evidence for an origin of the Armenians from Bronze Age mi xing of multiple populations".European Journal of Human Genetics.24(6): 931–6.bioRxiv10.1101/015396.doi:10.1038/ejhg.2015.206.PMC4820045.PMID26486470.
- ^Wade, Nicholas (2015-03-10)."Date of Armenia's Birth, Given in 5th Century, Gains Credence".The New York Times.
- ^"Georgia, Caucasus. - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection".davidrumsey.Retrieved2018-10-02.
References
[edit]- Gesenius, Wilhelm.A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, Including the Biblical Chaldee: From the Latin of William GeseniusTranslated by Edward Robinson. (Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1854)
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