History

Ancient Castle at the Cilician Gates

Castle located in eastern Lycia in a village that they call the ‘Cilician Gates. When the Latin and Byzantine empires destroyed Armenian temples, re-wrote our history during the Renaissance period, and then framed and blamed the Armenian Paulician-Christians for it, they took over many of these regions in “Anatolia” and Cilicia.

So many ancient temples, castles, structures, and villages have been given Turkish or Greek names during the last few centuries that were originally Armenian.

Ancient Armenoids

Vigen Avetisyan

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