Moxoene
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Moxoene was a region of old Armenia, today in western Van province, Turkey, as well as a feudal familial name c. 400–800, also known by the name Mogkh (Armenian: Մոկք) or Mox, Moxq, Moxus, Moxos, Moks, Mukus, Miks, Mikus, sometimes Mekes, as Muksî or Muskî in Kurdish, today Bahçesaray in Turkish.
It 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 contained sixty villages, forty of which were inhabited by Armenians. [2]. Faqi Tayran, the Kurdish famous poet and writer and also Han Mahmud, the famous Kurdish Lord of 19. century are from the district.
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- c. 390 -- Sura. Subsequently lost and recovered their power.
- 415 -- Atom;
- 445 -- Artak;
- 480 -- Ohan;
Records are rather scant until the region was in the hands of Sembat Bagratuni c. 850
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