Numerous toponymic traces of all these civilizations are found in Armenia, providing sufficient grounds to claim that one of the first, if not the very first civilization on Earth is the Armenian civilization. From Armenia, the traditions of land cultivation, irrigation facilities, fortified urban-type settlements, etc., spread to Mesopotamia and, most likely, to Egypt.
Geographical names are not born randomly, they are the result of a long intellectual process of an autochthonous (in this case, Armenian) people. This process attaches certain events that occurred in a particular area, anchors the features inherent to a certain locality, and reflects various aspects of their worldview in their toponymic creativity.
And the fact that the Armenian Highlands, which for several millennia has been the homeland of the Armenians, the arena of our civilizational-cultural, state, and other activities, features place names of neighboring countries, can testify to only two vectors of development in the Ancient world: either there was no population in the Armenian Highlands and the Mesopotamian-Egyptian civilizations colonized it – then we would not be Armenians, but Babylonians with Copts, or everything happened exactly the opposite…
Last time, we provided a few toponymic facts in favor of the hypothesis that the origins of the Sumerian civilization with its homeland – Nibiru should be sought in Armenia.
Below we will discuss a few more significant names, the traces of which again lead to our homeland. So, meet: Elam, one of the first states in the world, which arose somewhere in the 4th-3rd millennia BCE in the area of present-day Iranian Khuzestan, to the east of the lower reaches of the Tigris, in the basin of the Dez river and its tributaries.
By the way, the name of the river comes from the ancient Armenian “Dits,” which means a pantheon of gods – “ditsatun,” as well as the center of their worship.
In the future, this term served as the basis for the formation of many Armenian place names throughout the Highlands (one of the oldest – Mount Dizapayt in Artsakh with the Katarovank monastery at the top, a former temple), and in Persian it also gained the meaning of a fortified settlement, a fortress (in this capacity it is especially often found in Nakhichevan).
More to come: the capital of the state of Elam was a city, which in modern Western languages sounds like Susa, in Russian – Suzy, in Persian – Shush (near its ruins there is still the city of Shush), and in the native language of Elam, that is, in Armenian – Sos (with multiple versions – Sose, Sosi, Sosyats, Shosh, Shushi).
Yes, indeed, the modern Artsakh cities Shushi, Shosh, Sos, as well as hundreds of similar toponyms throughout Armenia – this is the ancient Armenian root meaning, firstly, the tree Sosi – plane or chinara, and secondly, a shrine that invariably appeared in ancient times near these gigantic, and therefore – sacred trees.
Moreover, it often happened that a plane grove was founded next to the erected temple, and the whole locality was named Sosyats. Like the Armenian people who first named it, the Sosi tree (plane or chinara) lives for millennia – examples of this are the famous Sosi in Shtorashen in Artsakh and in Vorduare (Nakhichevan).
In addition to the capital, Elam had several other cities, the names of which either directly, without any changes, sounded in Armenian – Avan (settlement), Adamatun (house of Adam), Anshan (designated, built), or underwent minor transcriptional changes – Simashki (from Dzmen, Dzmavsh), Parakhse (from Parakh), etc.
The Akkadians called the state Elamtu – a name derived either from the Armenian “tu” – giving, bestowing, bringing (katnatu – milk giving, ptkhatu – fruit bearing), or from the Armenian “tun” – house, homeland, as well as dynasty.
Finally, the name Elam itself is preserved in dozens of Armenian toponyms in Armenia itself – Mount Elama in the Armenian Taurus, the village of Elami in the Harberd region, mountains and villages in Gegharkunik, the Kars region, etc. Transcriptional options or distortions are also common – Alaman, Avlaman, etc.
The toponym itself, it seems, dates back to the ancient Armenian “alk”, “al” – a root originally denoting evil spirits of the underworld (as opposed to “kajk” – spirits of good and heaven).
Thus, in Armenia, not only the name Elam itself is preserved (it even derives from an Armenian root) – the names of the cities of this state that sounded in ancient Armenian leave no doubt about the origin of its founders… And the legendary ancient Armenian Shushi is just additional confirmation of this.
In Mesopotamia, at different periods of ancient history, there were many cities that either were independent state units or were part of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria, etc. at one time or another.
Some of them again bore Armenian names, which can also be found in the Armenian Highlands. For example, the cities of Ur and Uruk, whose names derive from the ancient Armenian root “h-ur” – fire (with a soft “r”) or “h-uri” – spirits of forests and rivers, and are also common in Armenia.
First of all, this is the famous Orekavank in Artsakh, in addition, there are toponyms Oryats, Urut, Uri, etc. (but do not confuse with Urenut or Urekan – from “ureni”, linden). The name of the city and state of Nippur goes back to the same Armenian “naver”, and from the latter – to Nibiru, which were discussed in our first article.
The names Dur-Sharrukin, Dura-Europos and similar, undoubtedly, derive their pedigree from the Armenian “dur” – the most ancient topoforming root with meanings of a gate, a passage in the mountains, a convenient path through a pass.
As a second definition, an ethno- or geo-orienting word was often added to it, such as: Dur Alanats – Alan Gate, Dur Kilikio – Cilician Gate, or a definition of the nature of the area: Erkatadur – Iron Gate, etc.
First, the root was used with a soft “r” (and so it is still written, for example, the names Gaili Dur or Drunk – Wolf Gate), then – with a hard one. By the way, in many languages this term, borrowed from Armenian, denotes a door – English “door”, Russian “dver” and so on.
The origin of the hydronym Euphrates – Armenian Eprat, Indo-European (read – ancient Armenian) and cuneiform Purat, Purattu, Uprata, derived from them Arabic Furat and Turkic Fyrat – all have the meaning of fresh flowing water.
But it overlooks the fact that, firstly, linguistically the Armenian and all the cuneiform, that is, the most ancient versions, are closest to each other, and secondly, only in Armenian toponymy today are preserved versions that most fully reveal the essence of the most ancient “Indo-European” hydronym.
Hundreds of Armenian rivers, and following them, the coastal villages have been named from the ancient Armenian root “akh-bur” – spring, source of water, and hence life, since time immemorial.
Hundreds of Armenian toponyms start with “Akhbra” – that is, spring, river, spring source (excuse the difficult pronunciation).
The cutting off of the first syllable, inherent in some Armenian dialects, leaves here “byur”, “br”, “bra” – and we get, for example, the Artsakh Bradjur (primary Akhbradjur, spring water).
This linguistic transformation intersects with the ancient Armenian root “byur” – ten thousand, many, mainly applicable precisely to hydrography, to springs (Byurakan – many springs, from another root “ak-n” – spring, hence the eye – eye), and what happens?
What we get is the oldest Armenian meaning of the name of the oldest Armenian river – Akhbratu, Bratu, Pirattu, Uprata, Eprat, Euphrates, Firat – water given by springs, a fresh stream, born in springs. By the way, both the Euphrates itself and its largest left tributary – Aratsani, start with several dozens of springs.
Thus, only with the use of the mother Armenian language can the meaningful, and therefore the civilizational essence of the names of the Ancient World be revealed – names that were given thousands of years ago in the ancient Armenian language either by the ancient Armenians or by the Mesopotamian peoples who were close to them in kinship and under their powerful influence.
And the first book of Christianity, which in all languages is simply called “book”, and only in Armenian – “spirit of God”, contains a complete geographical description of Armenia, which will be discussed in the next article.
by Grigor Beglaryan
Translated by Vigen Avetisyan
2 thoughts on “All Place Names Lead to Armenia”
Stop the lies that you are fabricating about Armenia. Lies will not lead you any where. Make all the false claims that you want but leave the Assyrian Civilization alone. Stop falsifying history, your reputation is at stake, that is if you care about that.
Please calm down and clarify your position. Here is everything that the article says about Assyria: “In Mesopotamia, at different periods of ancient history, there were many cities that either were independent state units or were part of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria, etc. at one time or another.” Do you want Assyria not to be mentioned at all? And please provide more arguments, preferably without hysteria.