Ecology, Irrigation and Lordship in the Lake Van Region: A Long-Term View from Urartu to Vaspurakan

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

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Chapter 12 Ecology, Irrigation and Lordship in the Lake Van Region: A Long-Term View from Urartu to Vaspurakan

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Pages:: 308–345

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689350_014

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This chapter describes the interplay between socio-political complexity and the establishment of hydraulic infrastructure for the region around Lake Van in Eastern Anatolia from the early first millennium AD to the 20th century, with a focus on the medieval centuries and the Kingdom of Vaspurakan of the Armenian Arcruni dynasty between the 9th and 11th centuries AD. The dynamics of power and irrigation systems in this core region of historical Armenia are thus embedded in a wider chronological framework which allows for the identification of continuities and interruptions in the political and agricultural utilization of an ecology characterized by a delicate balance of precipitation, evaporation, and temperature. Furthermore, the findings from Vaspurakan are compared with information from other regions of medieval Armenia and neighbouring (Sasanian) Azerbaijan. Finally, the written and archaeological evidence is contrasted with palaeoclimatological reconstructions based on sediment cores from Lake Van.

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A Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium

Series: Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World, Volume: 13

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Print Publication Date:: 23 Feb 2024

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