ԲՐՈՒՏԵԱՆ ԳՐԻԳՈՐ / BROUTIAN GRIGOR
(arm)
Վրաց Եւ Աղուանից Օրացոյցները Ըստ Անանիա Շիրակունու Տոմարի
Georgian and Alouanian calendars as presented in Anania Shirakouni’s tomar (calendar)
Bazmavep
2019 / 1-2,
pp.
73-99
A comprehensive review of the information on Georgian and Alouan (concerning the Caucasian Albania) calendars preserved in Anania Shirakouni's works and reached to our days was done. It was shown that in 561 The Alexandrian Council of 36 calendarists created similar (Egyptian-type) calendars for nations not participating the Council. This included the calendars created for Armenians, Georgians and Alouans, which, however, were not accepted in Armenia, Georgia and Caucasian Albania. 781 Completing its separation from the Armenian Church, the Georgian Church has put into practice the calendar created for it by the Alexandrian Council 220 years ago and started a new aera (the aera of Gergian Khronicon). And the Church from Caucasian Albania, always remaining in the diocesan system of the Armenian Church, has never used the calendar created for it and has not had an independent area.
The examination of the names of the months also showed that 83% of the Georgian names of the months and 67% of the names of the Albanian months are direct borrowings from the corresponding Armenian names or have a semantic similarity with them.