{"title":"THE CULT AND COMMEMORATION OF ST. VOSKEANS AND ST. SUKEASEANS IN THE LIGHT OF CAUCASIAN PARALLELS","authors":"Lilit Simonian","doi":"10.32653/ch1741002-1021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32653/ch1741002-1021","url":null,"abstract":"The obscure story about a group of early Christian saints of Alanian origin reports on the existence of the “grass-eaters” kind of Christianity in some regions of historical Armenia before the adoption of state Christianity. For the name of the group’s leader Sukias was Bahadras before his baptism, some parallels in the Armenian folk-lore and the Caucasian epic of Narts can proceed. The center of the cult of St. Sukiaseans was mountain Sukavet until the beginning of the 20th century. After its loss, however, the former inhabitants of Alashkert founded a chapel with vital worship and pilgrimage in the village of Nerkin Getashen, although the legendary story of the saints did not reach our times in memory of the people.","PeriodicalId":349883,"journal":{"name":"History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134519966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE RUBAS FORTIFICATION OF THE MID 6TH CENTURY: FEATURES OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE EASTERN FACADE OF WALL 2","authors":"L. B. Gmyrya","doi":"10.32653/ch174912-937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32653/ch174912-937","url":null,"abstract":"The Rubas fortification is a unique complex of stone military-engineering structures, built in the lower reaches of the River Rubas, 20 km west of the Caspian Sea coast and the same distance southwest of the Derbent Pass. In terms of the main indicators (monumentality and functional orientation), it belongs to a series of defensive lines of the Western Caspian region, erected by Persia with the assistance of Byzantium during the era of the Great People’s Migration. Typologically and chronologically, it has analogies with the fortress structures of Derbent, dating back to the 6th century. Its uniqueness is justified by the presence of monumental military-engineering structures of various parameters in terms of design and layout, united by construction links into a single object. Each structure carried a separate function, complementing the general tasks of a defensive nature. The structure of the eastern facade of Wall 2 is of combined nature, since it comprises of several different types of sections. The present article considers the features of building techniques for the construction of the facade of a monumental wall of a defensive structure, which are distinguished by a main direction. The purpose of this study is to analyze engineering solutions and to determine the functional tasks of each object included in the eastern facade of Wall 2. Research methods include detail analysis of techniques of erecting the eastern facade of Wall 2, substantiation of presence of various structure parts of its sections and identification of functional purpose of the synthesis system of the facade’s structure of the main wall. Analysis of materials of the structurally complex defensive object of the Rubas fortification of the middle of the 6th century, which is the main monumental Wall 2, namely its outer eastern facade, shows that the complex of engineering solutions of this structure was mainly due to the volume of external loads and the strategy of assault on a particular enemy, which at that time were the nomadic Turkic-speaking tribes who used Derbent passage for military operations in the Caucasus and the Middle East.","PeriodicalId":349883,"journal":{"name":"History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124183616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NISBAS IN THE LOCAL ARABOGRAPHIC SOURCES \u0000ON HISTORY OF THE NORTH-EAST CAUCASUS \u0000OF THE 18TH – EARLY 20TH CENTURIES","authors":"I. I. Khanmurzaev","doi":"10.32653/ch174806-822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32653/ch174806-822","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses a topical issue of the Russian Oriental studies – the issue of identification of nisbas in arabographic documents of the North-East Caucasus. The study aims to identify the most general patterns and characteristic features of the formation and writing of nisbas in the context of the Arabic language in Dagestan. Moreover, the author attempts to compile a reference toolkit in the form of a nisba dictionary with their identification. The problem of writing nisbas is closely related to the issue of writing Arabic script in Dagestan in general. In this regard, based on the analysis of available sources, a preliminary periodization of the features of the use of Arabic graphics in writing is given. Since there were no clearly established rules for spelling nisbas, each time they were written at the discretion of the authors of the documents. This condition creates serious problems in the translation and study of these documents, complicates their introduction into scientific use. This becomes especially problematic for foreign researchers. The source of the nisba dictionary was materials of an epistolographic nature, historical chronicles, memorandums and act records, chronographs from private and mosque collections of Dagestan, as well as materials from the collections of the IHAE DFRC RAS, the Central State Archives of the Republic of Dagestan. As a result of the research, general tendencies and patterns of the formation of relative adjectives were identified, and a table of nisbas, derived from the North Caucasian oikonyms, was compiled. The present work is generally of practical nature and is intended primarily for orientalists, Arabists, as well as other researchers of Dagestan Arabographic historical sources.","PeriodicalId":349883,"journal":{"name":"History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131530541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}