The fourteenth month of the Persian army’s siege of the impregnable Armenian fortress of Artager was underway, but it seemed that neither deprivation, generous promises, enemy threats, or even the exceptionally harsh winter of 367 could break the spirit of its defenders – Queen Parandzem and her eleven thousand brave companions… However, something unforeseen happened: …
The last monarch of the great Artashesid dynasty, daughter of Tigran III, full-blood sister and wife of Tigran IV. Date of birth unknown. Date of death after 12 AD. Erato was the second child in the family of Tigran III. She was born and raised in Rome (where her father lived and was in exile …
According to the Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi, the Median Empire was defeated by the Armenian King Tigran in alliance and with the assistance of Cyrus II. The historical grain of this message unfolds when compared with the account of Xenophon, a Greek historian of the 5th to the early half of the 4th century BC, …
Tigran I Yervandid and Cyrus II Achaemenid – Defeat of the Median Kingdom Read More »
It is believed that Armenians know their history well, easily navigating the events before and after the Birth of Christ. Perhaps, in the recent past, it was so. Today, considering the general decline in the level of education, the weakness of the school, the sharp decrease in interest in non-applied, “useless” knowledge, history is receding …
The figure of Tigran the Great still excites the imagination not only of scholars, cultural figures, military leaders, politicians, but also of virtually any Armenian. Tigran the Great has become a national pride of the Armenian people, a symbol of victory and belief in their own strength. Tigran II not only proved the possibility of …
The history of Cappadocia dates back to 5,000 BC. Throughout this time, the region was at the crossroads of civilizations, alternately part of the Hittite, Persian, Roman, and Ottoman Empires, and other states, and served as the arena for numerous wars. Cappadocia (Greek: Καππαδοκία, Latin: Cappadocia, Armenian: Գամիրք, Turkish: Kapadokya, Persian: کاپادوکیه, Katpatuka — “Country …
Turkey continues to distort history and appropriate Armenian historical and cultural heritage. As stated at a press conference in Yerevan by the main scientific advisor of the Oxford University expedition program “Stones and Stars”, candidate of biological sciences Vachagan Vagradjan, today Turkey presents the Portasar temple complex located in Western Armenia to the world community …
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One of the medieval philosophers once noted that a person grows attached to the earth when his ancestors rest in it. Armenians are bound to their land by such powerful centuries-old chains that this bond can be destroyed only by annihilating its bearers. Reiterating over and over the well-known thesis about the need to know …
Sasun, along with Taron, Ayots Dzor, and Maseatsotn, can rightly be called the heart of Armenia. This province embodies not only our centuries-old history – Sasun is the birthplace of the world-famous Armenian epic “Sasna Tsrer” (“Sasun Madmen”, an alternative name – “Sasuntsi David”) – this quintessence of the ancient pre-Christian Armenian tradition and the …
Those regions of Historical Armenia, which adjoin the Euphrates in its middle course, below the Ashkhar of Greater Armenia and the Gavar of Melidu-Malatia of Lesser Armenia, have been called Euphratesic, i.e., lands near the Euphrates, since ancient times. In 3-2 thousand BC. Here, one of the early Armenian states, Mitanni (miatun – single-domed, in …