Introduction: In the history of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, the figure of Zabel holds a unique place. She ascended the throne not by conquest or election, but because her father had no male heir. Her biography was almost entirely determined by the decisions of others—regents, councils of nobles, and exter...
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 A code is usually written by the state for its courts. In the case of Mkhitar Gosh, it was the opposite: he wrote a book of laws at a time when Armenian statehood in Eastern Armenia was in the phase of restoration, and a significant part of the Armenian population lived under foreign rule. It was this circ...
Introduction: In Armenian medieval literature, very few authors have left a first-person account of their own life. Anania Shirakatsi has. His autobiographical work, "Vasn vorpisut'ean kenats' iwrots'" ("On the Circumstances of His Life"), is a rare document; the seventh-century scientist himself wrote...
Introduction. The most revered deity of the Armenian pagan pantheon was Anahit, the goddess of fertility, healing, and motherhood, whom Agathangelos calls "the glory and life-giver of our nation." Her temples were among the richest in the entire country. And it was this very wealth that became the cause of one episode...
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...
The year is 1184. Every summer, fever breaks out in the swamps of the lowland regions of Cilician Armenia. People shiver, burn with fever, many die. No one knows why. That year, commissioned by Catholicos Grigor IV Tgha, the country's chief physician Mkhitar Heratsi finishes a book that will become... Armenian medicin...
In June 1098, when Antioch finally fell, the Crusaders did not know that the Armenian princes who had come to their aid in the Taurus Mountains had just laid the foundation of a state destined to last for almost three centuries. Constantine I Rubinyan received the titles of count and baron. The titles themselves meant little. Import…
PART A. TESTIMONY OF THE ARMENIAN SOURCE 1. The name that lived for 1,400 years This is the strongest Armenian fact in this entire story, and it is almost never mentioned. In Urartian cuneiform inscriptions, the capital is called Tushpa (Ṭušpa). In Assyrian annals — Turushpa. The city was destroyed in 6... BC.
In the heart of the Caucasus region, nestled between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, lies a small yet culturally rich country with an ancient legacy — Armenia. Officially known as the Republic of Armenia, this land has preserved its distinct identity through millennia, absorbing influences from p…
Introduction: Tsitsernakaberd, the commanding memorial complex overlooking the city of Yerevan, transcends its physical presence to become a sanctuary of remembrance, paying homage to the resilience of the Armenian people in the wake of one of the 20th century's most heinous crimes—the Armenian Geno…
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