Goghtn

Goght’n (Armenian: Գողթն; also mentioned in sources as Goght’an, Գողթան, and alternatively transliterated as Gołt῾n) was a canton (gavar’) located in the province of Vaspurakan in historical Armenia. Its borders roughly corresponded to the modern Ordubad Rayon of Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan.[1][2]

Goght’n was well known for winemaking, the quality of its grape and fruit orchards. The region also was the birthplace of a number of prominent Armenian gusans (minstrels). The ancestors of the renowned twentieth-century Armenian composer and music ethnologist Komitas Vardapet were originally from Goght’n.[3] Some of the region's oldest towns and villages have survived to this day, including Jugha (now Julfa) and Ordvat’ (modern-day Ordubad).[2]

  1. ^ Hewsen, Robert H. (1992). The Geography of Ananias of Širak (Ašxarhac῾oyc῾): The Long and the Short Recensions. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. p. 253. ISBN 3-88226-485-3.
  2. ^ a b Hakobyan, Tadevos (2007). Hayastani patmakan ashkharhagrutʻyun Հայաստանի Պատմական Աշխարհագրություն [Historical geography of Armenia] (in Armenian). Yerevan State University Press. p. 179.
  3. ^ Soulahian Kuyumjian, Rita (2001). Archeology of Madness: Komitas, Portrait of an Armenian Icon. Edition 2. Reading, England: Taderon Press; Princeton, NJ: Gomidas Institute, p. 11.