Introduction At the end of the 12th century, there was no statehood of its own in Eastern Armenia. The Bagratuni kingdom had fallen long ago, Ani was in the hands of the Shaddadid emirs, and a part of the Armenian nobility had migrated to Georgia and was serving at the Georgian court. It was from the environment of this migrated nobility that came th...
Introduction There are few episodes in the history of Armenia that are repeated so often and examined so little. The sentence "Hannibal built Artashat" is found in textbooks, travel guides, and hundreds of articles. But when we turn to the primary sources, the picture is much more...
In the Adıyaman province of southeastern Turkey, at an altitude of 2134 meters above sea level, there is a bare and rocky peak. There is neither water nor trees there, and no reason for a person to climb it. And right there, two thousand years ago, a king decided to build his eternal home. Today, on that peak, weighing tens of tons...
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