Armenian Highlands lands, including Cilicia. The apricot was known by the Romans as the "prunus armenicus" (the Armenian plum) and was brought to Europe from the Armenian plateau. Armenian Highlands The Armenian Highlands (; also known as the Armenian Upland, Armenian plateau, Armenian tableland, or simply Armenia) is the central-most and highest of three land-locked plateaus that together form the northern sector of the Middle East. To its west is the Anatolian plateau which rises slowly from the lowland coast of the Aegean Sea and converges with the Armenian Highlands to the east of Cappadocia. To its southeast is the Iranian plateau,
Plum-throated cotinga Plum-throated cotinga The plum-throated cotinga ("Cotinga maynana") is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the plum-throated cotinga in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected in Maynas Province, Peru. He used the French name "Le cotinga des Mayas" and the Latin "Cotinga Maynanensis". Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and