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The first Arab invasion under the leadership of Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rabiah devastates the region of Taron . 642. Arabs storm the city of Dvin killing 12,000 its inhabitants and taking 35,000 into slavery . 645. Theodorus Rshtuni and other Armenian nakharars accepted Muslim rule over Armenia. 650.
1904: Second Sasun Resistance. 1905 January 22: Revolution of 1905 starts in Russia. 1905–1907: Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1907. 1905 July 21: Yıldız assassination attempt in Constantinople. 1906 March: 1906 Russian legislative election. 1907 May: Battle of Sulukh with the Kurds, Kevork Chavush killed.
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Architect (s) Alexander Sahinian (reconstruction, 1969–75) The Garni Temple[ b] is the only standing Greco-Roman colonnaded building in Armenia. Built in the Ionic order, it is located in the village of Garni, in central Armenia, around 30 km (19 mi) east of Yerevan. It is the best-known structure and symbol of pre-Christian Armenia.
t. e. Armenia, also the Kingdom of Greater Armenia ( Armenian: Մեծ Հայքի թագավորություն, romanized : Mets Hayk’i t’agavorut’yun ), [ 6] or simply Greater Armenia or Armenia Major (Armenian: Մեծ Հայք Mets Hayk; [ 7] Latin: Armenia Maior) sometimes referred to as the Armenian Empire, was a kingdom in the Ancient ...
The ceremony was held to coincide with the start of the killings, ending at the symbolic time of 19:15 with a bell ringing 100 times. Armenian churches around the world likewise rang a bell 100 times at 19:15 local time. The ceremony, which created around 1.5 million new saints, was the first canonization by the church in 400 years.
Recent studies have shown that Armenians are indigenous to the Armenian Highlands and form a distinct genetic isolate in the region. [5] Analyses of mitochondrial ancient DNA of skeletons from Armenia and Artsakh spanning 7,800 years, including DNA from Neolithic, Bronze Age, Urartian, classical and medieval Armenian skeletons, [6] have revealed that modern Armenians have the least genetic ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Armenia: Armenia – landlocked mountainous country, located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. A former republic of the Soviet Union, Armenia is a unitary, multiparty, democratic nation-state with an ancient and ...