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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.
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.
1897 July 25–27: Khanasor Expedition. 1901 November: Battle of Holy Apostles Monastery. 1903 June 12: depriving the Armenian Church of the right of administering its own property. 1904: Second Sasun Resistance. 1905 January 22: Revolution of 1905 starts in Russia. 1905–1907: Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1907.
Medieval Armenia refers to the history of Armenia during the Middle Ages. It follows Ancient Armenia and covers a period of approximately eight centuries, beginning with the Muslim conquest of Armenia in the 7th century. Key events during this period includes the rebirth of an Armenian Kingdom under the Bagratid dynasty, followed by the arrival ...
Armenia (/ ɑːr ˈ m iː n i ə / ⓘ ar-MEE-nee-ə), [14] [a] officially the Republic of Armenia, [b] is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. [15] [16] 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. [17]
Ancient Armenia refers to the history of Armenia during Antiquity. It follows Prehistoric Armenia and covers a period of approximately one thousand years, beginning at the end of the Iron Age with the events that led to the dissolution of the Kingdom of Urartu, and the emergence of the first geopolitical entity called Armenia in the 6th century ...
The Red Army invasion of Armenia [a] was a military campaign which was carried out by the 11th Army of Soviet Russia from September to 29 November 1920 in order to install a new Soviet government in the First Republic of Armenia, a former territory of the Russian Empire. The invasion coincided with two concurrent events, the Turkish invasion ...
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 ...