One of the latest achievements in the study of historical geography is the consideration of ancient maps through the prism of geographical orientations of their authors — ancient historians-geographers (Hecateus, Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, etc.). Thus, such an angle of research allowed scientists to conclude that Ptolemy, when describing geographical locations of localities, was guided by the northern orientation [Ptol., V, 13, § 9, 13, 18, 20; Podosinov and Chekin, 1990, p. 211; Podosinov, 1999, p. 4. 244, 263-267, 313-315, 327-329, 397-398]. This approach makes it possible to determine with a high degree of probability the authorship of the ancient Armenian map, known as "Armenian Geography", or "Ashkharatsuyts" (Ancient Army), which is still controversial to date. "Showing the World"). Keywords: historical geography and cartography, "Ashkharatsuyts", western orientation, enumeration of administrative divisions, Movses Khorenatsi, Anania Shirakatsi. Summing up the results of the analysis of Shirakatsi's work, E. L. Danielyan came to the conclusion I share: "Ashkharatsuyts" was created by the father of Armenian historiography Movses Khorenatsi (V century), but the final image was obtained due to the correction, refinement and addition of Ananias Shirakatsi (VII century) [Danielyan, Melkonyan, 2007, p.143]. Shirakatsi's work clearly reflects the role of God in the creation of the world. Already at the beginning of Ashkharatsuyts, he writes: "Having found nothing detailed in the Holy Scriptures about land surveying, except for rare, scattered, and at the same time difficult to comprehend and obscure information, we are forced to turn to pagan writers who established geographical science based on Travel and Navigation, and confirmed it with Geometry, which owes its origin to Astronomy" (Patkanov, 1877,p. 4). p. 1]. The author divides the scientific world into pagan researchers and Christian researchers, to which he belongs. God created this world "not aimlessly ... Read more