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	Armenia
		Although the name "Armenia" occurs twice in the Vulgate, the regular biblical designation of the country is "Ararat", a name which is doubtless identical with the "Urartu" of the cuneiform inscriptions.
		Armenia is the name given to a mountainous strip of land situated in the southwestern portion of Asia.
		Armenia was divided into two large jurisdictions, that of Sis in Cilicia and that of Etchmiadsin in Greater Armenia, each with its own catholicos.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/armenia.html (4389 words)

	Armenia - LoveToKnow 1911
		Under the Medes and Persians Armenia was a satrapy governed by a member of the reigning family; and after the battle of Arbela, 331 B.C., it was ruled by Persian governors appointed by Alexander and his successors.
		Armenia, although politically dependent upon Rome, was connected with Parthia by geographical position, a common language and faith, intermarriage and similarity of arms and dress.
		After the death of Timur, Armenia formed part of the territories of the Turkoman dynasties of Akand Kara-Kuyunli, and under their milder rule the seat of the Catholicus, which, during the Seljuk invasion, had been moved first to Sivas, and then to Lesser Armenia, was re-established, 1441, at Echmiadzin.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Armenia (5598 words)

	History of Armenia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Western Armenia quickly became a province of the Roman Empire under the name of Armenia Minor; Eastern Armenia remained a kingdom within Persia until 428, when the local nobility overthrew the king, and the Sassanids installed a governor in his place.
		So ended Christian leadership of Armenia for the next millennium with the exception of a period of the late 12th-early 13th centuries, when the Muslim power in Greater Armenia was seriously troubled by the resurgent Georgian monarchy.
		Although the native dynasty of the Bagratids to which the Arabs gave the royal crown of Armenia, was founded under favourable circumstances, the feudal system gradually weakened the country by eroding loyalty to the central government.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/History_of_Armenia (2103 words)

	About Armenia: Armenian history
		Armenia is one of the oldest countries in the world with a recorded history of about 3500 years.
		Armenia under the Yervanduni dynasty soon became a satrapy of the mighty Achemenide Persia, and later part of the Seleucid Empire.
		The title "King of Armenia" passed to the kings of Cyprus, thence to the Venetians, and was later claimed by the house of Savoy.
	www.armeniadiaspora.com /inside/arm/en_history.html (2867 words)

	Minni
		Armenia is nowhere mentioned under that name in the original Hebrew, though it occurs in the English version, 2Ki_19:37, for Ararat.
		Armenia Major was bounded on the North by the River Cyrus (Kour), Iberia, Colchis, and the Moschici Mts.; on the West by Asia Minor and the Euphrates; on the South by Mesopotamia and Assyria; on the East by the Caspian and Media.
		(Armenia Minor lay between the Euphrates and the Halys.) Ararat was originally the name of the central district.
	holycall.com /biblemaps/minni.htm (2270 words)

	Armenia (06/06)
		Armenia's embassy in the U.S. is at 2225 R Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20008; tel: 202-319-1976; fax: 202-319-2984.
		Armenia is a member of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Commonwealth of Independent States, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the World Trade Organization.
		Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to observe the cease-fire that has been in effect since May 1994, and in late 1995 both also agreed to OSCE field representatives being based in Tbilisi, Georgia, to monitor the cease-fire and facilitate the peace process.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5275.htm (3880 words)

	HyeEtch - The Armenians - Prominent Armenians
		Tigran was a member of the Parthian court and as the Prince of Armenia was the representative of Armenia in Parthia.
		Tigran was officially crowned king of Armenia in the year 95 B.C as Tigran II of the Artashesyan Royal House.
		Lucullus entered Armenia in the spring of 69 B.C. He knew that the most vulnerable point in the west was the province of Tsopk (Sophene) which along with the province of Korduk (Gordyene) had a history of separatist tendencies.
	www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au /armenians/prominent_p5.html (4058 words)

	Rome’s Involvement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Even though Armenia was a province for a short period, it was ruled by an Armenian king, usually appointed by the Roman emperor and watched by a proconsul.
		Armenia became a client state to Rome at this point and eventually was partitioned between the Romans and the Parthians.
		Armenia was used as a pawn between the two rivals all of its existence.
	www.usd.edu /~clehmann/pir/arm_rom.htm (378 words)

	Conditions in the Near East: Report of the American Military Mission to Armenia
		Armenia was evangelized by Apostles fresh from the memory of our Lord, as early as 33 A. D., and as a nation adopted Christianity and founded a National Church in 301 A. which has outridden the storms of the centuries, and is vital to-day.
		Armenia was the first nation to officially adopt Christianity, with all that act involved in a pagan world.
		The conclusion of the American military mission to Armenia is that the remedy for the existing conditions in Armenia and the Transcaucasus is a mandatory control to be exercised by a single-great power.
	armenianhouse.org /harbord/conditions-near-east.htm (14860 words)

	East Translates East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thergama of the three brothers represents the kingdom of Gurdi, Armenia Minor; Ascenaz is the eponym of Scythes that are situated either in Sakasens in Eastern Armenia or in Atropaten, in the country of Mana or near it.
		Another nation of Phrygia, the Odomants, that occupied the mouth of the river Strymon at the foot of the mountain Orbelos, also appear near Sinope in Asia Minor and in Armenia, where the region of Akilissen bears a name meaning Odonamtis and where two provinces of Asia Minor are called Orbisen and Orbalisen.
		At last, there are homonym settlements, in Asia Minor and in Armenia, such as Satala and Eriza on the frontiers of Phrygia, Kabala in Lydie, in Cilicia and in Armenia, river Harpasos in Caria and in Armenia.
	www.osi.hu /cpd/ete/armenia/nogokhayos.html (3776 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Armenia
		Gregory that the story of Christianity's growth in Armenia centres; for in him Armenia had its apostle.
		The vacant see of the catholicos was filled by the king, and the coveted position went to Housik, of the family of the Aghbianos, rival to that of St.
		Gregory and the History of Armenia said to have come from Agathangelus, are asserted to be the works of these and other well-known men.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01736b.htm (4369 words)

	History of Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Armenia's king Sarduri II Between 1500 - 1200 BC, a tribal confederation called Hayasa-Azzi existed in the western half of the Armenian Highland, often clashing with the Hittite Empire.
		Western Armenia was recognized as being part of the Republic of Armenia in the Treaty of Sevres in 1920.
		Armenia, a nation that was under foreign domination for hundreds of years, and was not ready for statehood in between hostile Turkish neighbors, was kept under control and put under Soviet protection from Kemalist Turkey, thanks to the Iron Curtain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Armenia (3936 words)

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		LUSIGNAN DYNASTY: Climax ARMENIA: Asia Minor was at this time, divided between the Eastern Roman Empire and the kingdom of Iconium under the Seljuk Turks.
		The native dynasty of Armenia, which was founded by Leo I at about the same time as the Lusignan dynasty in Cyprus, had maintained a precarious existence by alternate alliances with Rome and Constantinople.
		The Ottoman Turks, a tribe of Turcomans who had settled in Iconium at the end of the thirteenth century, were rising to the power by means of their powerful army of jannisaries, a force recruited from Christian children taken from their homes and trained to fight for the Turks.
	bornova.ege.edu.tr /~ncyprus/lusig3.html (3073 words)

	Important Dates in Armenian History
		Armenia becomes the 163rd country and the sixth former Soviet republic to sign the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund thus becoming a member of the organization.
		Armenia suspends its participation in the third round of the Preliminary Emergency Meeting of the Minsk Group, which had been convened by the CSCE to address the conflict in Nagomo-Karabagh.
		Armenia cites obstruction by the Turkish and Azerbaijani delegations in preventing consensus among the 11 participating countries and failure to find a way to allow the elected representatives of Nagorno-Karabagh to participate in the peace talks as the compelling reason
	www.saintsarkis.org /Important_Dates1.htm (1152 words)

	ARMENIAN HIGHLAND
		The new waves of Armenians to Armenia Minor, Cilician Armenia and neighboring lands further increased the already significant presence.
		The Principality of Cilicia became -- the Kingdom of Cilician Armenia or Lesser Armenia as it was referred to by the European historians [sometimes confused with neighboring Armenia Minor].
		The Kingdom of Cilician Armenia fell to the Mamluks, who previously successfully overran the Crusader states of Jerusalem and Antioch and had turned their attention to the remaining obstacle in their conquest of the Near East.
	www.armenianhighland.com /christendom/chronicle705.html (2107 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Creatable Kingdom of Armenia
		The CILI tag has been redefined as Armenia, as Kilikia was nothing more than the Armenian Kingdom in exile after Ani fell to the Turks.
		Armenia (CILI) contains most provinces with the spread of Armenian culture in the 11th century, or the rough bordaries of "Greater Armenia" (excluding Georgia).
		Kilika/Armenia Minor has been excluded as it was the kingdom in exile and realistically would have remained in the Roman Empire.
	forum.paradoxplaza.com /forum/showthread.php?t=234102 (245 words)

	Armenian Diocese of Canada
		Christianity began to be preached in Armenia in the middle of the first century by the Apostles St. Thaddeus and St. Bartholomew, who for that reason, are called the "The First Enlighteners of Armenia." The Church they founded in Armenia was small and scattered.
		As Tiridat was passing through Armenia Minor, which was under Roman control, most of the Armenian feudal lords, who had remained loyal to the throne and who had escaped the country accompanied Tiridat.
		Although there were bishops in Armenia long before St. Gregory, looking after their flock in the persecuted Church in Armenia, yet it was St. Gregory who became the first Â“Catholicos of All Armenians.Â” He governed the Armenian Church for about 25 years.
	www.armenianchurch.ca /ourchurch.php?m=ge (1941 words)

	Caucasus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lesser Armenia was between the Euphrates and the upper reaches of the Lycos, in Galatia and southern Pontus.
		An entirely different Lesser Armenia, often called Armenia Minor, was in southern Anatolia around the province of Cilicia.
		These rulers were essential district governors, and should be viewed alongside local nobility of the era, in Armenia (primarily Bagratunids and Mamikonians), and Azerbaijan (the Mihranids).
	www.hostkingdom.net /caucasus.html (1888 words)

	The Turco-Mongol Invasions I, Medieval Armenian History, Turkish History, Turkey
		While it appears that most of [68] historical Armenia had been subjected to sack by 1070, it must be stressed that in several remote mountain areas, small Armenian principalities continued their existence throughout the11th and 12th centuries, although encircled by inimical forces and under perpetual attack.
		However, it must be stressed that despite what appears to have been large-scale emigration from Greater Armenia, those departing (principally families of means) nonetheless constituted a minority of the total indigenous population of eastern Asia Minor which remained in situ [75] and overwhelmingly Armenian in the period covered by this study (125).
		In the east, embracing parts of eastern Armenia, Caucasian Aghbania, and Azarbaijan was the emirate of Ganjak (ruled independently from 1148 to 1225) (128).
	rbedrosian.com /atmi1.htm (1641 words)

	ARMENIAN HIGHLAND
		This was a common practice at the time, the Parthians knew that King Tigran I would in all probability not risk his sons life -- the heir apparent to the throne --, and once again initiate hostilities against Parthia as long as the Prince remains in their royal court.
		It is important to note here that the Parthians stood very close to Armenia, many of the Parthian noble houses had their branches in Armenia.
		The Arsacid Royal House of Armenia was formally established in the year 66 A.D. with the recognition by the Emperor Nero of King Trdat I [Tiridates] Arakuni, as the sovereign monarch of the Kingdom.
	www.armenianhighland.com /tigranthegreat/chronicle500.html (448 words)

	ARMENIA (old Persian A... - Online Information article about ARMENIA (old Persian A...
		Under the Medes and Persians Armenia was a satrapy governed by a member of the reigning family; and after the See also:
		Armenia, although politically dependent upon Rome, was corrnected with Parthia by geographical position, a common language and faith, Under later intermarriage and similarity of arms and See also:
		Armenia was invaded by the Persians in 1575, and again in 1604, when Shah Abbas transplanted many thousand Armenians from Julfa to his new capital See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /APO_ARN/ARMENIA_old_Persian_Armina_Arme.html (5339 words)

	Armenian Songs - Special Items
		They attacked urartus and divided armenia into two states, high armenia or great armenia, and minor armenia.
		They gave the name of a certain country called thessalia, were there was a city called armenia, and the king's name was armenos.
		It was the first of the arts of armenia to be seriously studied, and to this day armenian architecture receives more scholarly attention than all of the other arts combined.
	www.stvartanbookstore.com /Armenian-Songst.html (238 words)

	HyeEtch - The Armenians - History - Artashesian Dynasty
		Also during this time, Armenia started to advance toward a political power never again to be equalled in that country, not even during the more fortunate economic and cultural periods that followed.
		One of Artashes' most important accomplishments was the construction of the new capital, Artashat (Artaxata), not very far from the present capital of Armenia, Yerevan, which is to the south, at the entrance to the plainlands of the River Araxes, at a point where the watercourse forms a near peninsula.
		In addition to Sophene, he annexed Armenia Minor, sharing the territorywith his father-in-law, Mithridates Eupator, the famous king of Pontus.
	www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au /armenians/artashesian_p1.html (719 words)

	Armenia
		1514 Western Armenia part of the Ottoman Empire.
		22 Feb 1828 Eastern Armenia (Yerevan) ceded to Russia by
		Armenia supports ethnic Armenian secessionists in Nagorno-Karabakh and militarily occupies 16% of Azerbaijan; traditional demands regarding former Armenian lands in Turkey have subsided; Azerbaijan seeks transit route through Armenia to connect to Naxcivan exclave; border with Turkey remains closed over Nagorno-Karabakh dispute; ethnic Armenian groups in Javakheti region of Georgia seek greater autonomy.
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Armenia.html (1236 words)

	Detail Page
		A mountainous region to the northeast of Asia Minor, Armenia's inhabitants came under Median and then Persian control (forming a satrapy).
		Armenia Minor was a small kingdom to the west, forming part of Asia Minor.
		Tigranes surrendered, and Armenia became a protectorate kingdom of Rome.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=HLAG0376 (165 words)

	Amazon.com: The Armenian People From Ancient To Modern Times: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Armenia is a cradle of civilization situated on one of the world's most turbulent crossroads.
		Asia Minor, Greater Armenia, Movses Khorenatsi, King of Kings, P'awstos Buzand, Black Sea, Lake Sevan, Armenia Minor, Caucasian Albania, Gregory the Illuminator, Ibn Hawkal, Movses Khorenats'i, Smbat Bagratuni, Matthew of Edessa, Near East, Ammianus Marcellinus, Armenia Interior, Middle East, Caspian Sea, New Julfa, Tovma Metzopetsi, Vardan Areveltsi, Anania Mokac'i, Bagarat Bagratuni, Der Nersessian
		Armenia is an incredibly fascinating study in the context of the Middle East, and the world's history at large.
	www.amazon.com /Armenian-People-Ancient-Modern-Times/dp/0312101694 (1196 words)

	“Ultimate Crime, Ultimate Challenge—Human Rights and Genocide”
		In the case of Armenia, he has examined the role and legacy of the Genocide on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
		He was Co-director of The Voice of Armenia at the Radio of the National University of Córdoba, and member of several Armenian youth organizations.
		In 2000/2001 she was coordinator of the working group “Affirmation”, which appealed to the German Parliament for Recognition of the Genocide of the Armenians.
	www.armeniaforeignministry.com /conference/discussants.html (3389 words)

	Armenian History, chapter 6: Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia
		While the inhabitants of the Greater Armenia eye-witnessed the loss of their national statehood and numerous foreign invasions, the Cilician Armenians lived in wealth and prosperity.
		Meanwhile, the enormous Empire of Mongols expanded on the East, and the Turks were consecutively ousted from the Greater Armenia, Syria and Mesopotamia.
		The surrounding Moslem states feared new possible Crusades and often considered the Cilician Armenia as an eternal source of conflicts and an eternal pretext for European Kingdoms to interfere.
	www.armenianhistory.info /cilician.htm (1024 words)

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