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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 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 distance to ...
Armenian was also official in the Republic of Artsakh. It is recognized as an official language of the Eurasian Economic Union although Russian is the working language. Armenian (without reference to a specific variety) is officially recognized as a minority language in Cyprus, [5] [6] Hungary, [7] Iraq, [8] Poland, [9] [10] Romania, [11] and ...
Stone tools from 325,000 years ago have been found in Armenia which indicate the presence of early humans at this time. [16]In the 1960s, excavations in the Yerevan 1 Cave uncovered evidence of ancient human habitation, including the remains of a 48,000-year-old heart, and a human cranial fragment and tooth of a similar age.
One of the theories about the emergence of Armenian in the region is that Paleo-Balkan-speaking settlers related to Phrygians (the Mushki or the retroactively named Armeno-Phrygians), who had already settled in the western parts of the region before the Kingdom of Van was established in Urartu, [11] [12] [13] had become the ruling elite under ...
Armenian genocide: An estimated 1,500,000 are killed. (to 1923) 1918: 3 March: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk gives Kars, Ardahan and Batum regions to the Ottoman Empire. 22 May: Battle of Sardarapat: 28 May: The Armenian Congress of Eastern Armenians declares the first Republic of Armenia. 4 June: Treaty of Batum: 30 October
Classical Armenian (Armenian: գրաբար, romanized: grabar, Eastern Armenian pronunciation [ɡəɾɑˈpʰɑɾ], Western Armenian pronunciation [kʰəɾɑˈpʰɑɾ]; meaning "literary [language]"; also Old Armenian or Liturgical Armenian) is the oldest attested form of the Armenian language. It was first written down at the beginning of the ...
The history of Armenian letters and the art of the handwritten book are considered in the book The Art of Writing among Ancient Armenians by G. Hovsepyan (1913). [24] This facsimile album contains 143 samples [ 25 ] of Armenian writing from the 5th to 18th centuries, produced on soft materials such as parchment, stone, or metal.
Armenians (Armenian: հայեր, romanized: hayer, ) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia. [44] [45] [46] Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and constituted the main population of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh until the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and the subsequent flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians. [47]