Mogkh

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Mogkh or Mox, Moxq, Moxus, Moxos, Moks, sometimes Mekes, today Bahçesaray, Van Province, Turkey, was an ancient Armenian province which was bounded on the south by a part of Assyria called by the Armenians Arovasdan. [1]

It was governed by Armenian princes whose descendants still reigned there in the tenth century. [1]

The district of Mukus, ancient Mogkh, which contained sixty villages, forty of which were inhabited by Armenians. [2]

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  1. ^ a b Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon - Page 358 by Sir Austen Henry Layard, Austin Henry Layard
  2. ^ New Monthly Magazine - Page 446 by Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth
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