Arsesa
Ἄρσησα
Arsesa (Ἄρσησα: Arjísh), a town and district of Armenia, on the NE. of Lake Ván; the district is probably the same as that of Arsia (Ἀρσία) mentioned by Ptolemy (5.13.13). In the 10th century it was called Ἄρσες or Ἄρζες (Const. Porph. de Adm. Imp. 100.44. p. 144. ed. Meurs.), and was then in the possession of the Mussulman princes. In A.D. 993 it was recovered by the Empire; but, A.D. 1071, was taken by the Seljuk Turks: soon after its capture by the Georgians, A.D. 1206, it fell. into the hands of the Mongols. (St. Martin, Mém. sur l'Armenie, vol. i. p. 136; London Geog. Journal, vol. x. p. 402.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.