Back in the 19th century, Western European authors called “Eastern Anatolia” Armenia or Western Armenia.
Below are illustrations from the book of the French orientalist Charles Defrémery “Voyages d’Ibn-Bartoutah dans la Perse, l’Asie Centrale et l’Asie Mineure” of 1853-1859. The author illustrated Eastern and Western Armenia as a single Armenia.
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