Three of the documents ( the chronicle of Jacobus Malvecius, the Cronaca Rampona and the Armenian chronicle ) make reference relatively explicitly to conjunctions between the moon and stars, of which one is identified ( Jupiter, in the Armenian chronicle ).

This is evident in the most workable document, the Armenian chronicle, where the usual conjunction between the moon and Jupiter is not recognised as such, as is the case for numerous other conjunctions.

The transfer of the property of the 4th Army ( except for part of the property of the 366th Motor Rifle Regiment of the 23rd Motor Rifle Division captured by Armenian armed formations in 1992 during the regiment's withdrawal from Stepanakert ) and the 49th arsenal was completed in 1992.

Azerbaijani sources insist that Armenian victory was largely due to military help from Russia and the wealthy Armenian diaspora.

All churches apart from the Armenian Apostolic Church must register with the government, and proselytizing was forbidden by law, though since 1997 the government has pursued more moderate policies.

Despite marked progress, Armenia still suffers from a large trade imballance and is still largely dependent upon foreign aid and remittances from Armenian nationals working abroad, and members of the diaspora donating aid through non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) such as churchES.

The Armenian economy's competitiveness is low and stagnating according to the Global Competitiveness Index, in which Armenia's ranking slipped from 80th out of 132 countries in 2006-2007 index to 93rd out of 131 countries in the 2007-2008 index ( just below Libya, Namibia, Georgia, Serbia and Pakistan ).

However, data from the National Statistical Service shows that there were only 65, 000 foreigners staying in Armenian hotels in 2009.

The Armenian government receives foreign aid from the government of the United States through the United States Agency for International Development and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

With the Armenian government needing more anti-crisis loans from the World Bank and other foreign donors, the debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to exceed 40 percent in 2010.

The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).

On November 1, 2006, the Armenian government handed de facto control of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to Russian company Gazprom and increased Gazprom's stake in the Russian-Armenian company ArmRosGazprom from 45 % to 58 % by approving an additional issue of shares worth $ 119 million.

The main factors defining Armenian foreign policy consist from geopolitical location, decreasing population, economic crisis, and ties with Armenian diaspora throughout the world.

The current conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh ( NK ) began in 1988 when Armenian demonstrations against Azerbaijani rule broke out in both Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Supreme Soviet voted to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia.

Both suffixes derive from Classical Armenian.

Another Indo-European example is star ( English ), str-( Sanskrit ), tara ( Hindi-Urdu ), étoile ( French ), ἀστήρ ( astēr ) ( Greek or ἀστέρι / ἄστρο, asteri / astro in Modern Greek ), stella ( Italian ), aster ( Latin ) stea ( Romanian and Venetian ), stairno ( Gothic ), astl ( Armenian ), Stern ( German ), ster ( Dutch and Afrikaans ), starn ( Scots ), stjerne ( Norwegian and Danish ), stjarna ( Icelandic ), stjärna ( Swedish ), stjørna ( Faroese ), setāre ( Persian ), stoorei ( Pashto ), seren ( Welsh ), steren ( Cornish ), estel ( Catalan ), estrella Spanish, estrella Asturian and Leonese, estrela ( Portuguese and Galician ) and estêre or stêrk ( Kurdish ), from the PIE, " star ".

After the excavations of the early 1970s, the Armenian authorities converted this archaeological space into the Chapel of Saint Vartan, and created an artificial walkway over the quarry on the north of the chapel, so that the new Chapel could be accessed ( by permission ) from the Chapel of Saint Helena.

Baldwin brought with him an Armenian wife, traditionally named Arda ( although never named such by contemporaries ), whom he had married to gain political support from the Armenian population in Edessa, and whom he quickly set aside when he no longer needed Armenian support in Jerusalem.

Aside from Latin, the standard written language of medieval Europe, the populace of crusader Jerusalem communicated in vernacular forms of French and Italian ; Greek, Armenian, and even Arabic were used by Frankish settlers.

The word entered English from a French word which probably derived from Italian moschea, a variant of Italian moscheta, from either Armenian mzkiṭ or Greek μασγίδιον, from Arabic masjid, meaning " place of worship " or " prostration in prayer ", from the Arabic sajada, meaning " to bow down in prayer " or " worship ", probably ultimately of Aramaic origin.

The region came under the control of the Armenian Orontids in the 7th century BC and later Persians in the mid 6th century BC.

The Armenian medieval atlas Ashkharatsuits ( Աշխարացույց ), compiled in the 7th century by Anania Shirakatsi ( Անանիա Շիրակացի, but sometimes attributed to Movses Khorenatsi as well ), categorizes Artsakh and Utik as provinces of Armenia despite their presumed detachment from the Armenian Kingdom and their political association with Caucasian Albania and Persia at the time of his writing.

In the same 7th century, Armenian poet Davtak Kertogh writes his Elegy on the Death of Grand Prince Juansher, where each passage begins with a letter of Armenian script in alphabetical order.

The knotted pile carpet probably originated in the 3rd or 2nd millennium BC in West Asia, perhaps the Caspian Sea area or the Armenian Highland, although there is evidence of goats and sheep being sheared for wool and hair which was spun and woven as far back at the 7th millennium.

Hagios Demetrios in Thessaloniki, St Catherine Monastery on Mount Sinai, Jvari Monastery in present-day Georgia, and three Armenian churches of Echmiadzin all date primarily from the 7th century and provide a glimpse on architectural developments in the Byzantine provinces following the age of Justinian.

According to anonymous 7th century Armenian " Geography " ( Ashkharatsoyts ) Artsakh comprised 12 cantons ( gavars ):

According to the Encyclopædia Iranica, the proto-Armenians had settled in Artsakh already by the 7th century BC, though until the 6th-5th centuries BC the Armenians in the strict sense must have lived only on the western half of the Armenian Plateau ( in areas between Cappadocia, the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the lake of Van ).

Its people spoke a local Eastern Armenian dialect, the Artsakhian dialect ( today known as the Karabakh dialect ), which was mentioned by 7th century grammarian Stepanos Syunetsi in his earliest record of the Armenian dialects

From 5th to 7th centuries Artsakh was ruled by Armenian noble family of Arranshahiks.

The region came under the control of the Armenian Orontids in the 7th century BC and later Persians in the mid 6th century BC.

In an Armenian geography of the 7th century, the Barsils are described as living on an island, distinct from the Bulgars and Khazars and at odds with both nations.

The first Armenian churches were built between the 4th and 7th Century, beginning when Armenia converted to Christianity, and ending with the Arab invasion of Armenia.

Hovannisian, The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Century and Armenian Manuscripts-Mehmet Tezcan

Century and Armenian Manuscripts " Dr. Mehmet Tezcan.

The Iranian government, especially in its post-1979 Revolutionary Islamist form, is highly suspicious of all Christian sects not native to Iran, namely the Assyrian Church of the East and the Armenian Apostolic Church, both of which have been present in the lands of the Persian Empire since the 4th Century, A. D.

ԺԵ դարի հայերեն ձեռագրերի հիշատակարաններ, մաս 1 ( Fifteenth Century Armenian Colophons, Part 1 ).

The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development of Armenian Political Parties through the Nineteenth Century.

* Garsoian, N., " The Byzantine Annexation of the Armenian Kingdoms in the Eleventh Century ".

Even though there are no records of the Kurdish language prior to the 13th century, the presence of Armenian loanwords indicates that there must have been Kurdish-Armenian contacts by at least 1100 CE.

Armenian Cilicia and the Levant in 1135 Common Era | CE.

It must have been replaced by an early form of Armenian, perhaps during the period of Achaemenid Persian rule, although it is only in the fifth century CE that the first written examples of Armenian appear.

Following the decline of the Seleucids in Persia in 247 BCE, an Armenian Kingdom exercised control over parts of modern Azerbaijan between 190 BCE to 428 CE.