title: A Note to the Reader
abstract: A N ote to th e R e a de rTo avoid confusion, I use the modern "Yerevan" for the capital of Eastern Armenia, rather than the "Erivan' " of pre-1936 Russian sources.I opt for the neutral "South Caucasus" rather than the Russianinspired "Transcaucasus" (Zakavkazʹe).Rus sian sources referred to the leader of the Armenian Church at Ejmiatsin as both patriarch and catholicos, but I use only catholicos for him and patriarch for the leaders of the other Armenian religious centers, such as the patriarch
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