Mukus

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Mukus (or Miks, Mikus) is an historical place in the south of Van Lake, in east Turkey. Faqi Tayran, the Kurdish famous poet and writer and also Han Mahmud, the famous Kurdish Lord of 19. century are from Mukus.

Mukus is a district, anciently called Mogkh, and was one of the provinces of the Armenian kingdom. [1]

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

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  1. ^ 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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Historical regions of Armenia

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8. Vaspurakan • 9. Syunik • 10. Artsakh • 11. Paytakaran • 12. Utik • 13. Gugark • 14. Tayk • 15. Ayrarat

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