Eudokia’daki Surp Hovagim ve Surp Anna Manastırı Geleneğinde Ötekilerin İzleri

According to the tradition of the monastery of Saint Joachim-Saint Anne, which was the centre of Eparkhia Eudokia in the hierarchy of the Armenian Apostolic Church during the Ottoman period, the founders of the monastery were the apostles Saint Thaddeus, Saint Bartholomew and Saint Andrew. The fact that the monastery was founded by Saint Andrews suggests the possibility that it was preceded by a Greek foundation, since the Armenian attributes of Saint Thaddeus and Saint Bartholomew are the same as the Greek attribute of Saint Andrew. The topic of this article is why the narrative of the founding of the monastery in the Armenian monastic tradition bears traces of the other community, the Greeks. The aim of the article is to analyse the question of why there is such a connection in the founding narrative, which will be treated as a designed reality with traces of real reality. The theories of Max Weber, Everett Cherrington Hughes and Fredrik Barth are taken as the basis for analysing the identity elements of the ethnic groups mentioned in the foundation narratives of this monastery in Eudokia; in addition to these theories, the theory that the ethnic group that emerges as a result of collective political action, after defining the other and establishing the boundaries of its own definition, takes some of the elements of ethnic identity directly from the groups that constitute it, and some of them are designed is put forward. In order to better define the groups in Eudokia, the administrative and religious boundaries of the region Monastery of Saint Joachim-Saint Anne is located have been analysed since antiquity; especially the place of the Greek Orthodox Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church in the city hierarchies has been tried to be revealed. Based on the thesis that in order for the monastic tradition to bear traces of the other, at least one of the elements of identity must be common, it is highly probable that the group called Hay-Horoms, who derived their ethnic origin and religious beliefs from the Greek Orthodox and their language from the Armenians, whom they defined as the other, played an important role in the establishment narrative of the monastery of Saint Joachim-Saint Anne within these borders. The belief that they have common ancestors was also influential in the design of the narrative. Regarding the exchange of the monastery of Saint Joachim-Saint Anne between Greeks and Armenians, Arshag Alboyadjian suggests that this could have taken place in the XIth or XIIth century at the earliest, with the permission of the Dânishmend or Seljuk Sultan. Judging by this narrative in the tradition, even if the other was the Dânishmendids or Seljuks, the Armenians probably did not clearly define the boundaries that separated them from them.