BOLBE´NE(Βολβηνή), a district of Armenia Major, which Ptolemy (Ptol. 5.13) places to the W. Eustathius, in his commentary on Dionysius Periegetes ( Geog. Graec. Min. vol. 4. p. 124), in his account of the changes made by the Emperor Justinian in the division of Roman Armenia, mentions a subdivision of Armenia IV. by the name of Balbitene (Βαλβιτηνή), which probably represented the Bolbene of Ptolemy. (St. Martin, Mém. sur l'Armenie, vol. 1. p. 24.)
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