| Armenians are an indo-european race, whose origins are not clearly now. Specialists speculate that the Armenians migrated to the Armenian Highlandvia the Balkans or the Caucasus. At that time the erea was in habiteed by the Urartians, who seem to have absorbed the language of the newcominer Armenias. An advanced Urartian nation existed at the turn of the first Mellennium befor Christ. Later replaced by the first Armenian Kingdom in the sixth century B.C. This kingdom united the tribes of Hayasi and Great. |
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| Short History of Armenia |
| Origins |
| Tigran the Great |
| Armenia was independent on and off stating in the ninth century B.C. The Armenian nation was throughtout the Caucasus and Anatolia form teh Mediterreaeasn, to the Black and Caspian seas. At its largest, the Armenian Empire encompassed that entire area under the fule of Tigran the Great, shortly before the time of Christ's birth. During the time of Tigran the Great was the best for the Armenian people. |
| Cilicia |
| As large parts of Armenia became parth of the Persian and Byzantine Empires, the Armenian kingdom of Cilica was born on the Mediterranean coast in 1080. It existed for hundred of years and was very helpfull to the crasafers. Eventually it was conquered by the mameluks in 1375. |
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