Movses is an

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ...

n given name, equivalent to Moses. It gave rise to the surname

Movsesian Movsesian or Movsesyan is an Armenian surname, meaning "son of Movses (''Moses'')". It may refer to *Alexander Movsesyan, Armenian playwright and novelist *Aris Movsesijan, Serbian screenwriter, movie director, writer blogger, politician and denti ...

. The name may refer to:

Places

* Movses, a village in

Tavush Tavush ( hy, Տավուշ, ) is a province of Armenia located at the northeast of Armenia, bordered by Georgia from the north and Azerbaijan from the east. Internally, Tavush borders the Gegharkunik Province from the south, Kotayk Province from ...

, Armenia

Catholicoi of the Armenian Apostolic Church

* Moses I (456–461) * Moses II of Armenia (574–604) *

Moses III of Armenia Catholicos Moses III (also Movses III) of Tatev was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1629 and 1632. He was a pioneer of the reform movement within the church and his work was carried on by his successors. He also obtained pr ...

(1629–1632) - Catholicos Movses III of Tatev

Given name

Movses Khorenatsi Movses Khorenatsi (ca. 410–490s AD; hy, Մովսէս Խորենացի, , also written as ''Movses Xorenac‘i'' and Moses of Khoren, Moses of Chorene, and Moses Chorenensis in Latin sources) was a prominent Armenian historian from the late a ...

(410–490s), Armenian historian and author of ''History of Armenia'' *

Movses Kaghankatvatsi Movses Kaghankatvatsi ( hy, Մովսէս Կաղանկատուացի ''Movses Kaġankatvac’i''), or Movses Daskhurantsi ( ''Movses Dasxuranc’i'') is the reputed author (or authors) of a tenth-century Classical Armenian historiographical work on ...

, 7th century historian of Caucasian Albania *

Movses Baghramian Movses Baghramian ( hy, Մովսես Բաղրամյան) was an 18th-century Armenian liberation movement leader.
Great Soviet Encyclo ...

, 18th century Armenian liberation movement leader *

Movses Hakobyan Movses Hranti Hakobyan ( hy, Մովսես Հրանտի Հակոբյան; born 4 February 1965) is a former senior Armenian military official and the former commander of NKR Defense Army and former Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Arme ...

, Armenian military leader and the commander in Karabakh *

Movses Silikyan Movses Silikyan or Silikov (, ; 14 September 1862 – 22 November 1937) was an Armenian general who served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and later in the army of the First Republic of Armenia. He is regarded as a national hero i ...

(1862–1937), Armenian general *

Movses Gorgisyan Movses Gevorgi Gorgisyan ( hy, Մովսես Գևորգի Գորգիսյան; 3 December 1961 – 19 January 1990) was an Armenians, Armenian politician and national hero, one of the leaders of the Karabakh movement, Nagorno-Karabakh movement. He w ...

, modern Armenian magazine editor {{dab, given name, hndis