Note 207 — A SUMMARY OF ARMENIAN HISTORY UP TO AND INCLUDING THE YEAR 1915.

The provenance of this name is as obscure as every other problem of Armenian origins. It may mean “the land of Erimenas,” a king of Urartu, known from an inscription on a votive offering at Van, just as the neighbouring province of Azerbaijan derives its name from the satrap Atropates; or (as Lord Bryce suggests) it may be a “portmanteau word,” perhaps compounded of Urartu and Minni, the Assyrian name for the upper basin of the Greater Zab. The name of Kat-Patuka (Cappadocia) is a possible analogy to this latter suggestion.