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  Armenia - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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.
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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.
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 Constantine VI of Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Constantine IV of Armenia or Gosdantin III (died 1373) ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1362 to 1373.
Constantine came to the throne on the death of his cousin Constantine V of Armenia.
Constantine was the second husband of Marie of Armenia, daughter of Oshin of Corycos and Jeanne of Anjou.
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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Republic of Armenia Official Site
The "renaissance of Armenia" was accomplished during the reign of Tigran the Great (95-99 B.C.), who proclaimed himself "King of Kings." Under Tigran II, Armenia grew to a great degree of military strength and political influence.
On May 28, 1918, the inde-pendent Republic of Armenia was established, after the Armenians forced the Turkish troops to withdraw in the battles of Sardarapat, Gharakilisse and Bashabaran.
Armenia was made part of the Trans-Caucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic in 1922, and in 1936, it became one of the Soviet Union's constituent republics.
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 Armenia
This monastery is in the Alaverdi region of Armenia at the foothills of mountains on the country’s northern border.
Armenia is bordered by Georgia on the north, Azerbaijan on the east and the Azerbaijani exclave of Naxçivan (Nakhichevan’) on the southwest, Iran on the south, and Turkey on the west.
Armenia was the largest producer in the former USSR of perlite and extracts quantities of clay, construction stones, and semiprecious gems.
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 Armenia and Georgia, Culmen Europae
Armenia has thus traditionally been regarded as the first officially Christian country, though, with uncertainties in dating, Ethiopia may be able to challenge this.
The Kingdom of Armenia in the Taurus Mountains of Cilicia is called "Lesser" Armenia in contrast to the "Greater Armenia" of the Armenian homeland to the northeast.
A daughter of Constantine I was married to Joscelin I, Count of Edessa, ushering in a long history of association and intermarriage between the Armenians and the Crusader states.
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 Armenia, Armenian, Armenian History, Armenians, Armenian Cause, Armenian research, Armenian facts, Armenian people, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
After having depopulated the Western Armenia, the Turkish military were now about to destroy the rest of Armenia and achieve their goal of eliminating the Armenian nation.
A referendum was organized in Armenia on September 21, 1991, the Armenian residents voting overwhelmingly for the secession from the USSR.
In response to that, a joint session of deputies of Armenia and Artsakh adopted a document proclaiming the reunification of Armenia and Artsakh.
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 Constantine V of Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Constantine V of Armenia (died 1362) ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1344 to 1362.
Constantine came to the throne on the death of his cousin Constantine IV of Armenia who had been killed in an uprising in 1344.
Constantine was the first husband of Marie of Armenia, daughter of Oshin of Corycos and Jeanne of Anjou.
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 Armenian Youth Federation, AYF, Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Armenia regained independence after the death of Alexander the Macedonian, when the monarchy of the latter was split into many parts.
After Armenia was officially recognized by the governments of Allies and by the United States, the US President Woodrow Wilson was invited to determine the borders of the Armenian State.
On December 1, 1989 the Armenians of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh responded with a mutual decision of their parliaments, proclaiming the reunification of Armenia and Artsakh.
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 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.
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 Armenia Heads
After Constantine IV of Armenia, the first Latin king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia was killed in an uprising in 1344 after two years in office, she was regent.
The new king was a distant cousin, Constantine V of Armenia, who died of natural causes in 1362.
She then married Constantine VI another distant cousin, who formed an alliance with Peter I of Cyprus, offering him the port and castle of Corycus.
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 Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Constantine was also born in this room, although his mother Zoe had not been married to Leo at that time.
Constantine succeeded to the throne at the age of seven in 913, under the regency of the Patriarch Nicholas Mysticus.
It also provoked the Arabs to attack Byzantine land in Syria, Armenia, and Italy, but the land in the east was eventually recovered by the Greek general John Tzimisces.
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 Chronology of the History of Armenia - Armenica
Prince Constantine I dies and is succeeded by his sons Toros I (Theodor) and Levon I. During the rule of Toros I (1100-1129) Armenia is transformed into a duchy, a safe heaven for the exhausted crusaders.
Constantine V, also a Catholic, comes to power, but is murdered by the people where after the country, under a short period, is ruled by his widower, Marie de Gorigos.
Armenia is transformed to a constant war scene between Persia and the Ottoman Empire and is devastated.
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 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).
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 constantine
Constantine is a movie based on the comic book Hellblazer whose main character is called John Constantine.
If Constantine Maroulis is going to become an American idol with his music, he's determined to do it on his own.
Dona Martinsen was also arrested and charged with one count of conspiracy for her alleged role in the operation.
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 ARMENIAN HIGHLAND
In 1347, King Constantine II led the Armenian Knights and the allied Knights Hospitallers in the liberation of Cilician Armenia from the Mamluks of Egypt [who ironically were overwhelmingly made up of and often led by Armenians who were captured from Armenia and were raised as Muslim warriors].
In 1373, Levon VI (1373-75) succeeded Constantine IV (1365-75) and was destined to be the last king of Cilician Armenia.
King Levon, the last monarch of the Kingdom of Cilician Armenia, “disappointed in his labors and expectations” passed away in Paris, on November 29, 1393.
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 CHURCH FATHERS: Ecclesiastical History, Book VI (Sozomen)
A drop fell upon the robe of Valentinian; he scarcely could restrain himself, for he was a Christian, and he rebuked his asperser; it is even said that he cut off, in view of the emperor, the portion of the garment on which the water had fallen, and flung it from him.
From that moment Julian entertained inimical feelings against him, and soon after banished him to Melitine in Armenia, under the plea of misconduct in military affairs; for he would not have religion regarded as the cause of the decree, lest Valentinian should be accounted a martyr or a confessor.
Aones had a monastery in Phadana; this was the spot where Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, on his journey from Palestine, met the damsel whom he afterwards married, and where he rolled away the stone, that her flock might drink of the water of the well.
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 Oriental Fathers: Armenian Literature
Under the direction of the Patriarch Sahak the Great (390-439) and Mesrob a group of young clerics who had been trained chiefly at Constantinople and Edessa—they were later called the "holy translators"—translated the writings of eminent Greek and Syriac authors.
The history of Gregory the Illuminator and the conversion of Armenia was written under the probably fictitious name Agathangelus, perhaps towards the end of the fifth century.
Eznik addressed perceived threats to Christianity in Armenia from heretical and non-Christian movements, among them Valentinian Gnosticism and the schools of Greek philosophy, Marcionism, Manichaeism and Zoroastrian Zurvanism.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> 1373   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Philip II of Taranto & Achaea hands over the rule of Achaea (now southern Greece) to his cousin Joan I of Naples.
Leo VI succeeds his distant cousin, Constantine VI, as King of Armenian Cilicia (now southern Turkey).
A city wall is built around Lisbon, Portugal to resist invasion by Castile.
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 Popes & Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, etc.
the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Armenia, and the East; Archbishops of Canterbury and Prince Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, Cologne, and Salzburg
The Patriarchate of Armenia was thus regarded by the Roman Church as heterodox.
Constantine then donated it to the Bishop of Rome and built adjacent to it the church of San Giovanni in Laterno, which has remained ever since the actual episcopal church of Rome (not St. Peter's).
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 Pope Pius IX  6 January 1873  The Church in Armenia
Since the faction from Armenia is like this, they are schismatics even if they had not yet been condemned as such by Apostolic authority.
Further more, as Our predecessor Pius VI warned in his Apostolic letter condemning the civil constitution of the clergy in France,[25] discipline is often closely related to doctrine and has a great influence in preserving its purity.
We are confident, furthermore, that such distressful times will never befall the Catholic churches of Armenia as to compel the Roman Pontiffs to impose bishops on them who have not been recommended by the synod of bishops.
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 HyeEtch - The Armenians - History p3
The treaty of Turkmencay - Eastern Armenia annexed by Russia under the rule of Czar Paul I. Tanzimat movement, promoted by Sultan Mahmud II as a stimulus and program for an approach by the Ottoman Empire to the Western culture.
Heavy taxes were imposed, hundreds of Armenian civilians were cast into Turkish prisons, stripped of their clothes and tortured in the most diabolical manner.
Robert Kocharyan was elected the second President of the Republic of Armenia
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 Emperors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Antioch and most of the remaining fortresses in Syria, Mesopotamia and Armenia were captured in 611.
641 Constantine III and Heraclonas 641 Heraclonas 641-668 Constans II 668-685 Constantine IV Political Development : Reorganisation of the Empire with the introduction of themes.
741-775 Constantine V 775-780 Leo IV 780-797 Constantine VI 797-802 Irene 802-811 Nicephorus I 811 Stauracius 811-813 Michael I Rangabe 813-820 Leo V 820-829 Michael II 829-842 Theophilus 842-867 Michael III Political Development : End of the inonoclast controversy.
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 Armenian History Timeline - Little Armenia
The timeline and this book are intended to introduce the reader to the significant elements of our Armenian heritage and to provide him with a greater understanding of and appreciation for Armenian history and culture".
401 BC Yervant I Crowned King of Armenia
1992 AD Armenia Admitted to the United Nations
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