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Arminiya, also known as the Ostikanate of Arminiya (Armenian: Հայաստանի Օստիկանություն, [1] Hayastani ostikanut'yun) or the Emirate of Armenia (Arabic: إمارة أرمينية, imārat armīniya), was a political and geographic designation given by the Muslim Arabs to the lands of Greater Armenia, Caucasian Iberia, and ...
Armenian Principality of Cilicia 1080–1198 118 15 Sis: Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia: 1198–1375 177 16 Yerevan: Republic of Armenia (1918–1920) Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1920–1991) Republic of Armenia (since 1991) 1918–present 107 16–17 Stepanakert: NKAO (1921–1991) Artsakh (1991–2023) 1921–2023 101
Armenia, [c] officially the Republic of Armenia, [d] is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. [ 12 ]
Dvin (Classical Armenian: Դուին Duin or Դվին Dvin; Greek: Δούβιος, Doύbios or Τίβιον, Tίbion; [1] Arabic: دبيل, Dabīl or Doubil) was a large commercial city and the capital of early medieval Armenia.
The Armenian capital was chosen for the quality and variety of the programme it presented to the selection committee, which met at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris on 2 July 2010. The National Archives of Armenia founded in 1923, is a scientific research centre and depositary, with a collection of around 3.5 million units of valuable documents.
The history of Armenia covers the topics related to the history of the Republic of Armenia, as well as the Armenian people, the Armenian language, and the regions of Eurasia historically and geographically considered Armenian. [1] Armenia is located between Eastern Anatolia and the Armenian highlands, [1] surrounding the Biblical mountains of ...
Prior to Yerevan becoming the capital of Armenia, there were 12 other historical capitals of Armenia: Van, Ani, Armavir, Yervandashat, Artashat, Tigranakert, Vagharshapat, Dvin, Bagaran, Shirakavan, and Kars. Sis was the capital of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.
The Satrapy of Armenia (Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎡𐎴 Armina or 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎡𐎴𐎹 Arminiya), a region controlled by the Orontid dynasty (570–201 BC), was one of the satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC that later became an independent kingdom.