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Dubious

Someone inserted this line with reference to highly dubious sources:

However, this information is not confirmed by primary sources because solid accounts of continuous existence of non-Armenian civilizations in Utik and other eastern Armenian lands do not exist.

Can I see quotes from sources that support this claim? Grandmaster 07:51, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note that scholars say that the ancient sources mention Utians as inhabitants of Utik:

What do we know of the native population of these regions - Arc'ax and Utik - prior to the Armenian conquest? Unfortunately, not very much. Greek, Roman, and Armenian authors together provide us with the names of several peoples living there, however - Utians, in Otene, Mycians, Caspians, Gargarians, Sakasenians, Gelians, Sodians, Lupenians, Balas[ak]anians, Parsians and Parrasians - and these names are sufficient to tell us that, whatever their origin, they were certainly not Armenian. Moreover, although certain Iranian peoples must have settled here during the long period of Persian and Median rule, most of the natives were not even Indo-Europeans.

Robert H. Hewsen. "Ethno-History and the Armenian Influence upon the Caucasian Albanians," in: Samuelian, Thomas J. (Hg.), Classical Armenian Culture. Influences and Creativity, Chicago: 1982, 27-40.

Grandmaster 07:56, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I checked the history, this edit was made by a sock of the banned user. I removed it. Anyone wishing to readd this line please cite reliable sources at talk of the article. Grandmaster 08:04, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Revert

Please bother to discuss first before deleting entire chapters and inserting OR and SYNTH. Hiosn (talk) 07:27, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain what exactly is OR and SYNTH in my edits. Grandmaster 07:51, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]