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A famous seascape painter Ivan Aivazovsky visited Istanbul several times, where he painted a series of paintings with views of the Bosporus and Sea of Marmara. A part of his paintings was bought by Sultan Abdul-Hamid II, who awarded the artist the Orders of Medjidie and Osmanieh, highest awards of the Ottoman Empire. In 1896, …
Rusahinili was the capital of the Kingdom of Van located on the fortified rock “Toprakkale” (modern name of the city as well) east of the city of Van. Rusahinili was built by King Rusa I (Armenian: Հրաչյա, Hrachya, according to the notes of Movses Khorenatsi. The distorted name Rusa is much more known today) after …
Tosp (Armenian: Տոսպ ) is an ancient city, the capital of the Kingdom of Van (Urartu) in its heyday. Tosp was located on the shore of Lake Van, on the western outskirts of the modern city of Van. The main element of the architecture of Tosp was the Van rock, the residence of the kings. …
Mkhitar Gosh’s judiciary was quite progressive for its time. The progressivity of a product determines its ability to adapt to a developing society. This condition implies a constant dynamic development of the product in time. In other words, if the product is progressive at some point, then it is progressive for all times. One needs …
The Armenian and Chinese people knew about each other’s existence from immemorial times. The word “Armenia” in Chinese sounds “Ya-mei-ni-ya,” hieroglyphs of which mean “the beautiful maid of Asia.” In Armenian sources, legends, and fairy tales, China is called a country of chenes, Chinumachin, or Chinastan. According to the preserved thousands-years-old information, Armenians visited China …
The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia fell with the overthrow of Levon VI in 1375. For almost three centuries, Cilicia has served as a stronghold of Christianity in the Middle East working with the crusaders, while trying to maintain a balanced relationship with the strengthening Muslim neighbors. Levon VI, who was the last king of Cilicia …
The Armenians, whose kingdom once reached the Euphrates and Tigris, both the Black and Caspian Seas, and had their northern border at Tiflis, lost their sovereign identity in 428. It is possible to decisively connect the era of the decline of the Armenian Kingdom with the fall of the Arsacid dynasty. The power of the …
Zarmayr Haykazuni (Armenian: Զարմայր Հայկազունի) was the 29th king of Ancient Armenia from the Haykazuni dynasty. He ruled in 1192-1180 BC. During his reign, Zarmayr brought his army to Troy to help the king of Troy Priam to defend it. He died by the walls of Troya. His death caused great unrest in Armenia and …
At the beginning of the 7th century BC, Hrachya II (commonly known as Rusa II. The name “Hrachya” instead of “Rusa” was mentioned by Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi) made a successful attempt to restore the former power and prestige of the Kingdom of Van (Urartu), which had been in a state of decline due to …
In 745 BC, the king of Assyria Tiglath-Pileser III gave a beginning to a conflict between his state and Kingdom of Van. It was a part of his policy of reforming Assyria and strengthening its positions in Western Asia. In 735 BC, Tiglath-Pileser III assaulted the capital of Kingdom of VanTosp, but was unable to …
The map featured in the video below was drawn by Roman historians almost two thousand years ago. It depicts the whole world known to Romans and the Great Silk Road in particular. The Great Silk Road was a network of trade routes established during the rule of Han Dynasty of China, which at that time …
Born Ashot Malakyan, Henri Verneuil was born in the small Turkish town of Rodosto (modern Tekirdağ) on October 15, 1920. When he was four years old, the Malakyan family moved to Marseilles, where it settled at 109 Rue Paradis. In France, Malakyan graduated from college and managed to work as a journalist for a while. …
The poet and the commander met in 1904 in the house of one Sako from the village of Sev Kar. After plenty of gatherings and talks, Hovhannes Tumanyan and Andranik Ozanyan became close friends. Andranik often visited Tumanyan in his home village of Dsegh to maybe hide from pursuit. According to the work “Life, war, …
A Gallo-Roman historian Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus described Armenia in this way: “You cannot ignore such a large kingdom, since its territory, after Parthia, is larger than the territory of all other kingdoms. Greater Armenia stretches from Cappadocia to the Caspian Sea for eleven hundred thousand steps and is seven hundred thousand steps from north to …
“Many once great cities have become insignificant, and those that in my time have been powerful had been void before. And since I know that human happiness is changeable, I will equally mention every of them.” Thus one of the fathers of world historiography Herodotus has spoken of great cities. It’s hard to disagree with …
After the appearance of the Armenian question in the international diplomatic and political arenas, there has been a sharp rise in national-patriotic movements among the Western Armenian population. That has been the time when the first parties (Armenakan Party, Social Democrat Hunchakian Party, Armenian Revolutionary Federation) have been founded. New schools, newspaper and magazine publishers …
Armenian historian of the 5th century Movses Khorenatsi claimed that Armenia was established in 2492 BC, which is considered a legendary date in the Armenian history and mythology. His statements were based on the notes he familiarized himself with during his visit to Babylon. Regardless of whether he just guessed the year or actually based …
1. “No doubt, Armenians are physically more similar to the ancient inhabitants of Asia Minor depicted in Hittite and Urartian sculptural friezes than Scythians or other Indo-European nomads of Southern Russia” (David Marshall Lang, “Armenia: Cradle of Civilization”, 1970). 2. “The Armenoids are similar to the Sumerians, the inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia” (V. A. Ketkovich, …