Tadevos Hakobyan ( hy, Թադեւոս Հակոբյան; 15 June 191715 October 1989)
was a Soviet
Armenian historian and
geographer.
Biography
Hakobyan was born in
Lernadzor
Lernadzor ( hy, Լեռնաձոր) is a village in the Kajaran Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia.
Toponymy
The village was previously known as ''Kyurdikend''.
Demographics Population
The village's population was 866 at the 2 ...
village in Armenia's southern province of
Syunik. In 1940 he graduated from the
Faculty of Geography-Geology of the
Yerevan State University (YSU). He was the dean of the YSU's Faculty of Geography in 1955-57 and 1963-65. He thereafter served as the chair of that department between 1962 and 1986. Most of his work was focused on the
historical geography of Armenia. Together with Stepan Melik-Bakhshyan and Hovhannes Barseghyan, he authored the monumental five-volume ''Dictionary of Toponomy of Armenia and Adjacent Territories'' (). He also authored several textbooks.
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References
External links
Tadevos Hakobyan's biography''Dictionary of Toponomy of Armenia and Adjacent Territories'' on Nayiri.com
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1917 births
1989 deaths
Soviet historians
Soviet Armenians
Soviet geographers