Chola (historical city)

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Chola was ancient province, as well as its capital city located western coast of Caspian Sea in Toprakhgala (Russian: Топрах-кала) archaeological site of Derbent.

Names and meaning[]

Several Byzantine, Armenian and Syriac authors recorded the name of province in their manuscript. Most common of those names is Čor (Old Armenian: Ճոր), known from Agathangelos, Moses of Chorene, Yeghishe, Lazar Parpetsi, Ananias of Shirak, Movses Daskhurantsi and Sebeos.[1][2] All other exonyms are variants of Armenian ones. A Greek variant of this name, Tzoúr (Greek: Tζούρ) was used by Byzantine authors like Procopius.[3][4] Less used variants were Khorutzon (Greek: Χορουτζόν) or Tzon by Menander[1] and Zouár (Greek: Ζουάρ).[2] 5th century Georgian author Iakob Tsurtaveli names the city as Čora (Georgian: ჭორა) in his Martyrdom of the Holy Queen Shushanik. Islamic authors like Tabari and Ibn Khordadbeh referred to the city as Ṣūl (Arabic: صول), another derivation from Armenian version.[3] Native endonym appears to be of Caucasian origin, Čoˁ (Caucasian Albanian: WIKI