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Utik

Utik noun: a historical canton of Greater Armenia, mostly part of present-day Azerbaijan.

Noun

Utik

  1. A historical canton of Greater Armenia, mostly part of present-day Azerbaijan.
    • The historian Movses Khorenatsi (an Armenian source from the fifth century AD according to some, and the eighth century AD, according to others) indicated that the province of Utik (along with Artsakh with which it was contiguous on the south) was part of the Armenian kingdom of the Ervandunis (or...1994, Levon Chorbajian, Patrick Donabédian, Claude Mutafian, The Caucasian Knot: The History & Geopolitics of Nagorno-Karabagh, Zed Books, page 53
    • For the most part, Caucasian Albania (in Armenian, A[ġ]vank—that is Aghvank or Aghouank) only stretched a short way south of the Kura River. If there was a disputed province of ancient Armenia, it was Utik (which contained the town of Partav, at one time Caucasian Albania's capital, and the...2003 December 16, John Wright, Richard Schofield, Suzanne Goldenberg, Transcaucasian Boundaries, Routledge, page 91

Origin of Utik

Borrowed from Armenian Ուտիք (Utikʻ).

Questions about Utik

What does Utik mean?
Utik means a historical canton of Greater Armenia, mostly part of present-day Azerbaijan.
What part of speech is Utik?
Utik is a noun.

Words near Utik in the dictionary

  1. Utica greens
  2. Utican
  3. Uticans
  4. utick
  5. uticks
  6. Utik
  7. util
  8. util.
  9. utile
  10. utiles
  11. utilidor

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