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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.
Agulis(or Augulis, Aguillar, or Akoulis) was a historical Armenian village located in the Nakhichevanregion of present-day Azerbaijan.[1] The village played an essential role in Armenian history due to its cultural, strategic, and historical significance. [2][3]Dozens of Armenian churches existed up until 1919 when the Armenian population was ...
Anti-Armenianism Hidden Armenians. First Nagorno-Karabakh War Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. v. t. e. The culture of Armenia encompasses many elements that are based on the geography, literature, architecture, dance, and music of the Armenian people. Armenia is a majority Christian country in the Caucasus .
Prior to the establishment of the Armenian written language, a rich oral literature developed, fragments of which documented from the 5th to the 8th centuries. Following the introduction of the national alphabet in 405-406 by Mesrop Mashtots, [ 2] the first original works of Armenian literature were composed in the mid-5th century.
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 ...
In the Armenian Orthodox Church the parable is the main theme of Holy Monday. A special Church service enacting the parable of the ten virgins is celebrated on Tuesday evening of the Holy Week. [citation needed] In the Syriac Orthodox Church, the parable is used to commemorate the Sunday vespers service of Nahire. They believe Nahire symbolizes ...
The Armenian calendar is the calendar traditionally used in Armenia, primarily during the medieval ages. The Armenian calendar is based on an invariant year length of 365 days. Because a solar year is about 365.25 days and not 365 days, the correspondence between the Armenian calendar and both the solar year and the Julian calendar slowly ...
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 ...