Ostikan

Ostikan (Armenian: ոստիկան) was the title used by Armenians for the governors of the early Caliphates. In modern historiography, it is chiefly used for the caliphal governors of the province of Arminiya, which included Greater Armenia.

Sources

(Armenian) Ter-Ghevondyan, Aram. "Դիտողություններ «ոստիկան» բառի մասին (Observations on the word "ostikan"). Patma-Banasirakan Handes. 4 (1962), pp. 243–48.

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