Anania Shirakatsi

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Anania Shirakatsi (Անանիա Շիրակացի )(610–685) was an Armenian scholar, mathematician, and geographer. His most famous works are Geography Guide (‘Ashharatsuyts’ in Armenian), and Cosmography. His greatest claim to fame was the fact that the Earth was round, and that there was more to the heavens and world then the standard Aristotelian belief purported at the time. Shirakatsi's work ‘Ashharatsuyts’ reports details and mapping of the ancient homeland of Bulgars in Mount Imeon area of Central Asia.

The Anania Shirakatsi Medal is an Armenian State Award for scientists in the economics and natural sciences, engineers and inventors.

In 2005, the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia issued an Anania Shirakatsi commemorative coin.

See also

• Mount Imeon

Sources

• The Geography of Ananias of Sirak. The Long and the Short Recensions. Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Robert H. Hewsen. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1992, Pp. 685. ISBN 9783882264852
• Anania Shirakatsi, «Geography Guide (VII c)» (in Russian translation, 1877) - «Армянская География VII века по Р.Х (приписывавшаяся Моисею Хоренскому)», СПб.,1877
• Suren Eremian, Reconstructed version of Shirakatsi's map of Central Asia.

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