Armenian Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa / Edited by Richard H. Hovannisian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cont.: Armenian Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa / Richard G. Hovannisian -- Armenia on the Tigris : the vilayet of Diarbekir and the sanjak of Urfa / Robert H. Hewsen -- Tigranocerta : the city "built by Tigranes" / Levon Avdoyan -- Early Armenian Christianity and Edessa / Robert W. Thomson -- The Muslim conquests of Edessa and Amida (Diarbekir) / Walter Kaegi -- The Armenian presence in Edessa after the Muslim conquest / Tim Greenwood -- The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa (Matteos Urhayetsi) / Ara E. Dostourian -- The art and architecture of Amida (Diarbekir) and Edessa (Urfa) / Christina Maranci -- The Armenian dialects of Dikranagerd/Tigranakert and Urfa / Bert Vaux -- Gustave Meyrier and the turmoil in Diarbekir, 1894-1896 / Claire Mouradian -- Demographic changes in the Armenian population of Diarbekir, 1895-1914 / Raymond H. Kévorkian -- The Armenian genocide in Diarbekir, 1915 / Simon Payaslian -- Death's end, 1915 : the general massacres of Christians in Diarbekir / David Gaunt -- Mardin dans la Guerre Mondiale / Yves Ternon -- Ottoman Urfa and its missionary witnesses / Hans-Lukas Kieser -- Urfa's last stand, 1915 / Carlos Bedrossian -- Expulsion of the Armenian survivors of Diarbekir and Urfa, 1923-1930 / Vahé Tachjian -- The stone-walled city: Diarbekir in American-Armenian writing / David Stephen Calonne.