BASEN

Volume II · p. 562 · 1949

English translation · Testo originale italiano

BASEN. – Distretto maggiore della provincia di Ararat, in Armenia, suddiviso in alto e basso B.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

It was one of the dioceses that received its first bishop from St. Gregory the Illuminator himself, who for Basen was Eudalio. The see of Basen is historically one of the earliest in Armenia.

BIBL.: L. Ingigiani, Topografia dell’Armenia antica, Venezia 1822, pp. 380-387; L. Ališan, Descrizione dell’Ararat, ivi 1890, pp. 15-26; S. Eprikian, Dizionario topografo dell’Armenia, ivi 1902, p. 383.