Moxoene

Mokk (also known as Moks or Moxoene) was the 5th province (ashkharh) of the ancient Kingdom of Armenia (Greater Armenia). It was bordered by Vaspurakan to the north and east, Aldznik to the west, and Corduene to the south. The administrative center of the province was the fortress-city of Moks. Mokk was one of the smallest provinces of Greater Armenia. According to the early medieval geographical treatise Ashkharhatsuyts ("Geography"), it was divided into nine cantons (gavars). However, its total surface area was significantly smaller than even some of the larger individual cantons of other Armenian provinces. Unlike other provinces of Greater Armenia, the administrative formation of Mokk took place relatively late. Researchers suggest that it developed as a separate province no earlier than the 3rd century AD. Mokk is notably absent from Claudius Ptolemy's description of Armenia compiled in the mid-2nd century AD, which is viewed as historical evidence that it had not yet emerged as a distinct administrative-political entity during that period.