History of Armenia
The history of Armenia and Armenians is very ancient and can go back at least 2000 BC. Archaeologists say the Shulaveri-Shomu culture of the central Transcaucasus region, and Armenia today, as the earliest known prehistoric culture in the area, carbon-dated to around 6000 - 4000 BC. But, a newer discovered tomb has been dated to 9000 BC. Another early culture in the Armenian Highlands and surrounding areas—the Kura-Araxes culture is in the period of ca. 4000 - 2200 BC, and is believed to have to go into the Trialeti culture (ca. 2200 - 1500 BC), and meaning Armenians are one of the oldest Indo-European subgroups.
Urartu[change | change source]
Urartu was an ancient kingdom in the Armenian Highlands.
Some experts say that the Armenians started as a mixture of the different peoples to move through the area in history: The Hurrians, Urarteans, Luvians and Mushki. This last group, also knowns as Phrygians may have brought their Indo-European language to Armenia. The Armenian language today is Indo-European, but shows a lot of influence from the earlier languages, especially Urartean. [1]
Ancient period[change | change source]
The Armenians had friendly relations with the Parthian empire.[2] The fighting between the Roman Empire and Parthia was centered in Armenia. Armenia was in between Parthian and the Roman Empire. The Armenians had already played a role in the early history of the Roman-Parthian relations. Tigranes put military and political relations with Rome and Parthia on an international legal foundation.[3] The Parthians were allies to Armenians in many times. Many Parthian noble families had moved out and they went to Armenia. [4][5]
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References[change | change source]
- ↑ “Armenians” in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture or EIEC, edited by J. P. Mallory and Douglas Q. Adams, published in 1997 by Fitzroy Dearborn.
- ↑ The New Englander - Page 524 by William Lathrop Kingsley
- ↑ Armenian Perspectives - Page 282 by Nicholas Awde
- ↑ King of Kings by Gevork Nazaryan
- ↑ Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt Page 913 by Wolfgang Haase, Hildegard Temporini
Other websites[change | change source]
- Armenia at Livius.Org Archived 2007-10-01 at the Wayback Machine (ancient history)
- All about Armenia by www.haias.net Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Rulers.org — Armenia list of rulers for Armenia
- History of Armenia Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- A book about the history of Armenia from 1827. It was written by a priest.