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	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 (5602 words)

	Armenia
		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.
		Lesser Armenia is a field cultivated chiefly by Jesuit missionaries, and, unlike the rest, their efforts are confined to the Armenians.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/armenia.html (4389 words)

	Armenia - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Armenia is bounded by Turkey on the west, Azerbaijan on the east (the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan is on its southwestern border), Iran on the southwest, and Georgia on the north.
		Armenia is generally understood to have included NE Turkey, the area covered by the modern republic of Armenia (the eastern part of ancient Armenia), and parts of Iranian Azerbaijan.
		Armenia declared itself independent of the USSR in Aug., 1991, and Levon Ter-Petrossian was elected as first president of the republic.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-armenia.html (1779 words)

	RUSNET.NL :: Encyclopedia :: A :: Armenia
		Armenia is generally understood to have included north-eastern Turkey, the area covered by the modern republic of Armenia (the eastern part of ancient Armenia), and parts of Iranian Azerbaijan.
		From 1922 to 1936, Armenia was combined with Azerbaijan and Georgia to form the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, after which it became a separate constituent republic of the USSR.
		Armenia declared itself independent of the USSR in Aug., 1991, and Levon Ter-Petrosian was elected as first president of the republic.
	www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/a/print/armenia.shtml (1005 words)

	Armenia (region) - MSN Encarta
		Armenia (region), historic region of western Asia, which in ancient times was an independent country comprising the southern Caucasus and northeastern Asia Minor.
		In the Republic of Armenia portion, the mineral and agricultural resources are intensively exploited, but the Turkish and Iranian sections of historic Armenia are poorly developed.
		The major enemies of medieval Armenia were the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuks, who overran the country in the 11th century.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555976/Armenia_(region).html (807 words)

	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.
		The Kingdom of Lesser Armenia was the last independent Armenian state until the former Soviet Republic of Armenia became independent in 1991.
	www.friesian.com /armenia.htm (4265 words)

	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.
		In order that we may realize the real implications of the history of Armenia and grasp the soul of this people, we must turn our gaze upon the beginning of the 4th century, which was momentous in its consequences for the growth of the nation.
		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.
	www.armeniaforeignministry.com /arm/history/main.html (2322 words)

	World InfoZone - Armenia Facts
		Armenia's Ararat Valley has been inhabited since the Stone Age and is one of the world's oldest settled regions.
		Armenia is said to be one of the first centres of metallurgy.
		Armenia is said to be the first country in the world to make Christianity a state religion.
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=Armenia (636 words)

	Armenia - History
		Armenia's borders extended from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean.
		Armenia was made part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic in 1922, and in 1936, it became one of the Soviet Union's constituent republics.
		That same year, in 1988, Armenia was rocked by severe earthquakes that killed thousands, and supplies from both the Soviet Union and the West were blocked by the Azerbaijani Government fighting the Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh.
	richardsmith.net /armenia/sako.html (2284 words)

	Geography of Armenia - Topography and Climate
		Armenia is bordered on the north by Georgia, on the east by Azerbaijan, on the southwest by the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan, on the south by Iran, and on the west by Turkey.
		In independent Armenia, environmental issues divide society (and scientists) sharply into those who fear "environmental time bombs" and those who view resumption of pollution-prone industrial operations as the only means of improving the country's economy.
		Newly independent Armenia needed the income from foreign sales of Nairit rubber and chemical products, many of which had been assigned exclusively to that plant under the Soviet system and were still unavailable elsewhere to the former Soviet republics in the early 1990s.
	worldfacts.us /Armenia-geography.htm (1098 words)

	Armenia, country, Asia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		B.C. The Romans distinguished between Greater Armenia and Lesser Armenia, respectively east and west of the Euphrates.
		It was superseded by the Treaty of Sèvres (see Sèvres, Treaty of; 1920), which created an independent Greater Armenia, comprising both the Turkish and the Soviet Russian parts.
		Armenia’s economy has been hurt by Turkish and Azerbaijaini blockades, and the nation has become somewhat dependent on Russia.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ar/Armenia.html (1552 words)

	HyeEtch - The Armenians - History p1
		The "renaissance of Armenia" was accomplished during the reign of Tigran the Great (94-54 B.C.), who proclaimed himself "King of Kings." Under Tigran II, Armenia grew to a great degree of military strength and political influence.
		Under this common threat, the princes, nobility and the people of Armenia rallied, and in 451 under the leadership of the Commander-in-Chief Vartan Mamikonian, the Armenians heroically faced the Persians at Avarair in defense of their faith and national heritage.
		That same year, in 1988, Armenia was rocked by severe earthquakes that killed thousands, and supplies from both the Soviet Union and the West were blocked by the Azerbaijani Government fighting the Armenians in Nagorno Karabagh.
	www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au /armenians/history_p1.html (2200 words)

	The Crusades
		Cilician Armenia, or Lesser Armenia as some historians referenced the region, had formed principalities in Cilicia after Armenia proper had fallen to the wrath of the Seljuk onslaughts.
		Throughout the entire period of the Crusades, lesser Armenia was literally in the middle of successes and failures of the Latins.
		Lesser Armenia was able to maintain its boundaries until the Mamluks conquered the fortress of Sis in 1375.
	www.armenianheritage.com /hicrusad.htm (1091 words)

	Lesser Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lesser Armenia (also known as Armenia Minor and Armenia Inferior) refers to the Armenian populated regions, primarily to the west and north west of the ancient Armenian kingdom and north east of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.
		Lesser Armenia was the portion of historic Armenia and the Armenian Highland lying west of the river Euphrates.
		The Armenian population of Lesser Armenia continued its existence in the area until the Armenian Genocide of 1915-23.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lesser_Armenia (337 words)

	Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստան, Hayastan, Հայք, Hayq), officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked mountainous country in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, located in the Southern Caucasus.
		A former republic of the Soviet Union, Armenia is a unitary, multiparty, democratic nation-state and one of the oldest and most historic civilizations in the world with a rich cultural heritage, as well as the first nation to adopt Christianity as its official religion.
		Armenia is interested in cooperating with other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, a group of 11 former Soviet republics) and with members of the international community on environmental issues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armenia (5455 words)

	Armenia - The Society and Its Environment
		Armenia is located in southern Transcaucasia, the region southwest of Russia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
		Modern Armenia occupies part of historical Armenia, whose ancient centers were in the valley of the Aras River and the region around Lake Van in Turkey.
		Most of Armenia is drained by the Aras or its tributary, the Razdan, which flows from Lake Sevan.
	countrystudies.us /armenia/20.htm (446 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)

	Sis - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was rebuilt in 1186 by Leo II, king of Lesser Armenia, who made it his capital.
		After the constitution of the kingdom of Lesser Armenia, the catholicate returned to Sis (1294), the capital, and remained there 150 years.
		The lofty castle and the monastery and church built by Leo II, and containing the coronation chair of the kings of Lesser Armenia, were noteworthy in the early 20th century.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Sis (453 words)

	History
		Armenia broke into two parts: The Greater Armenia (comprising most of the Armenian plateau) and Lesser Armenia (the territory of upper Euphrates).Lesser Armenia became a part of Alexander's empire, while Greater Armenia restored its independence and descendants of Yervandouni continued to reign there.
		The king of Greater Armenia Artashes I, the founder of the Artashesid dynasty, converged into a united state most of the Armenian populated lands of the Armenian plateau.
		From the second half of the 12th century Armenia succumbed to devastating raids of successive foreign conquerors: The Seljuk tribes, the Mongols, the hordes of Tamerlane.
	www.armentour.am /e_history.html (919 words)

	Armenia Heads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The kingdom is known as Lesser Armenia, Armenia Minor or Armenia Cilicia.
		Her name is also spelled Zarmandux, she was widow of King Pap (known as homosexual), who was killed on the orders of the Byzantine general Terent who probably acted on the instigation of Musheg Mamikonean, after he had ordered the death of the Catholicos, Nerses the Great, in 373.
		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.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /Armenia_Heads.htm (648 words)

	Caucasus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

	HyeEtch - Religion & Church - Etchmiadzin & Treasures p2
		In Armenia’s Syunik province, in the monastery of Tatev, they alone destroyed more than 10,000 priceless, illuminated manuscripts, centuries of knowledge and research were destroyed in one large blaze, by the barbaric Seljuks.
		Etchmiadzin, as other parts of Armenia were being abandoned, by large number of Armenian families, who were forced to leave their homes because of the treats from the nomads.
		President of the Republic of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosian, elected by a popular vote in the democratic elections was blessed by one of the longest reigning and most favored Catholicos of all time, Catholicos Vazgen I.
	www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au /religion/h_see_p2.html (2104 words)

	ARMENIAN HIGHLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

	ARMENIAN HIGHLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Beginning from the XVth century Armenia was plundered and conquered by the nomadic Turkic tribes that came from the steppes of Central Asia.
		The ancestral lands in Western Armenia were cleansed of their native population during the Genocide which to the criminal Young Turks was the initiation for the realization of their grand dream of seeing a pan-Turkist Turan.
		Holy Mount Ararat -- the Twin Mountains -- the sacred symbol of Armenia was orphaned, losing its native farmers of the soil that always prayed in the early hours facing the sun, rising between the twin peeks of holy Masis...
	www.armenianhighland.com /christendom/chronicle706.html (1617 words)

	Antioch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		1194) to Alice, a niece of Leo II of Lesser Armenia, a vassal to Antioch.
		Henry of Champagne, who had been in the Levant since 1190 and who was nephew to both Richard I and Philip II, traveled to Lesser Armenia and persuaded Leo, in exchange for Antioch renouncing its overlordship to Lesser Armenia, to release Bohemond, who in 1201 died.
		With the death of Bohemond III, a 15-years struggle between Tripoli and Lesser Armenia over control of Antioch ensued.
	crusades.boisestate.edu /antioch/07.shtml (311 words)

	Armenia & The Armenians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Under prince Levon II (1187-1219) and subsequently under King Levon V of Lusignan, the principality was transformed into a kingdom which managed to survive for nearly 200 years.
		Meanwhile, the Mongols had displaced the Seljuks in Armenia Proper, and the country was subjected to unparalleled devastation and slaughter.
		Lesser Armenia on the other hand, hung on tenaciously until 1375 when it was incorporated into the Mameluk Empire; thus the last kingdom of Armenia came to and end.
	mousaler.com /armenia/data/conquest.html (168 words)

	ARMENIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION - CAL POLY SAN LUIS OBISPO
		Arsacids dynasty (Arshakuni Dynasty), a branch of the Parthian Arsacids, came to power, and the country as a whole soon became a buffer zone over which the Romans and Parthians fought for domination.
		Ruben (Rubenian Dynasty), the Kingdom of Cilicia or Lesser Armenia.
		hat same year, in 1988, Armenia was rocked by severe earthquakes that killed thousands, and supplies from both the Soviet Union and the West were blocked by the Azerbaijani Government fighting the Armenians in Nagorno Karabagh.
	www.calpoly.edu /~asaclub/history.htm (2191 words)

	Armenia
		1375 Kingdom of Lesser Armenia falls to the Mameluke
		1514 Western Armenia part of the Ottoman Empire.
		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)

	St. Meletius
		He was of one of the best families of Lesser Armenia, and born a Melitene, which Strabo and Pliny place in Cappadocia; but Ptolemy, and all succeeding writers, in Lesser Armenia, of which province it became the capital.
		The Arians hoped that he would declare himself of their party, out were undeceived when, the emperor Constantius arriving at Antioch, he was ordered, with certain other prelates, to explain in his presence that text of the Proverbs,[1] concerning the wisdom of God: The Lord hath created me in the beginning of his ways.
		By the order of Valens, he was conducted into Lesser Armenia, where he made his own estate at Getasus, near Nicopolis, the place of his residence.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/MELETIUS.htm (1922 words)

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