However, the majority Armenian population of the region refers to it by its previous Armenian name, Artsakh.

The Greek writer Theophylact Simocatta refers to a migration of Zabender from Asia to Europe in about 598 ; in addition, an Armenian book on geography attributed to Moses of Chorene mentions a town " M-s-n-d-r " in the land of Huns located to the north of Derbent.

According to an Armenian source, he had lost an eye on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem before the First Crusade, but this statement probably refers to the fact that he was one-eyed ( monoculus ).

Some of these names can be translated from Armenian as common words: e. g. Taguhi means “ queen ” and Varaz means “ wild boar .” In fact, Armenians to this day use the first name Aghvan ( Աղվան ) that directly refers to the Kingdom of Aghvank.

The Armenian diaspora ( Western Haygagan spyourk ; Eastern Haykakan spyurk ' ) refers to the Armenian communities outside the Republic of Armenia and self proclaimed de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

Today, the Armenian diaspora refers to communities of Armenians living outside the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, since these regions form part of Armenians ' indigenous homeland.

Today, Mount Zion refers to a hill south of the Old City's Armenian Quarter, not to the Temple Mount.

" In speaking about Armenia in his Geography, the classical historian Strabo refers to an Armenian region which he calls " Orchistene.

Ruki ( or iurk ) refers to a sound change in Balto-Slavic, Albanian, Armenian, and Indo-Iranian, wherein an original phoneme changed into after the consonants,, and the semi-vowels,, or:

Lesser Armenia (), also known as Armenia Minor and Armenia Inferior, refers to the Armenian populated regions, primarily to the west and northwest of the ancient Armenian Kingdom.

The name Khamsa, which was used by Arabs for the state, refers to the five Armenian Melikdoms who ruled the state.

The Armenian side refers to Ayaz Mutalibov's interview to claim that the massacre had been committed not by Armenian soldiers but by Popular Front of Azerbaijan militants who allegedly shot their own civilians escaping through the corridor.

Another Armenian chronicler, Vahram, a personal secretary of King Levon II refers to Roupen as ‘ a famous chief of the blood royal, Rouben by name ’.

An apricot kernel ( Prunus armeniaca, " Armenian plum " in Latin ) refers to the kernel of a species of Prunus, classified with the plum in the subgenus Prunus.

Ottoman Armenian casualties refers to the number of deaths of Ottoman Armenian people between 1914 to 1923.

In the letter conveyed by Appius, Lucullus addressed Tigranes simply as " king " ( basileus ), something received as an insult, and probably intended as such in order to provoke the proud Armenian monarch to war.

In Armenian, " Saudade " is represented by " կարոտ " ( karot ) that describes the deep feeling of missing of something or somebody.

In a Turkish bath, he overhears a group of Turks, among them the district governor, the Kaimikam, discussing the central government ’ s plan to do something about its Armenian problem.

Although it echoes the Bagratids ' claim of Davidic descent and the Artsruni's claim of the royal Assyrian ancestry, some Armenian historians tended to interpret it as something more than a piece of genealogical mythology.

These gods were neither the Asian heavenly demons nor the precious and the delicate Greek gods, but something that reflected the characteristics of the Armenian people which they have been polishing through the ages, namely ambitious, wise and good-hearted .”

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.

In 1861, Robert Ellis proposed that Etruscan was related to Armenian, which is nowadays acknowledged as an Indo-European language.

Some Indo-Europeanists claim that Greek seems to be most closely related to Armenian ( see also Graeco-Armenian ) and the Indo-Iranian languages ( see Graeco-Aryan ) among the living Indo-European languages.

It has even been suggested that Gothic haiþi is not related to " heath " at all, but rather a loan from Armenian hethanos, itself loaned from Greek ἔθνος ethnos.

The name rose comes from French, itself from Latin rosa, which was perhaps borrowed from Oscan, from Greek ρόδον rhodon ( Aeolic βρόδον wrodon ), related to Old Persian wrd -, Avestan varəda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr, Armenian vard.

Phrygian, for example, was possibly related to the Armenian, which belongs to a different branch of the Indo-European language family than the one to which Hittite belongs.

In the United States and Canada, there are also Prelacies and Dioceses that are related to the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, so there is duality of representation of Armenian Apostolic churches in these two countries.

In 2009 International Association of Genocide Scholars used the quote in a letter to Barack Obama related to the Armenian Genocide recognition.

A related Armenian dish is tarna, literally meaning “ to turn ”.

All words related to Christianity are Armenian: terter ( priest, instead of Persian kešiš ), zam ( church, instead of Persian kilse ), knunk ( christening, instead of Persian ghosl ta ’ mid ), zatik ( Easter, instead of Persian fesh ), pas ( Lent, instead of Persian ruze ) etc.

The word is recorded in English since 1586, meaning " Oriental council of state ," from Turkish divan, from Arabic diwan, is a Middle-Persian loan-word in Arabic and was borrowed also at an earlier date into Armenian dīvān " bundle of written sheets, small book, collection of poems " ( as in the Divan-i Hafiz ), related to debir " writer.

For the related but different Pontian Greek, Turkish or Armenian instrument see Kemenche.

Note that each ArmSCII encoding also has several minor variants, depending on the revision of the related Armenian standard ( which was not made official before 1997, and was defined informally before that ; this has caused various confusions and the mappings described below are just best practices according to the latest 1997 revision of the Armenian standard ); that may change the exact mapping and usage of a few punctuation characters and symbols.

Its founder's temperament and natural gifts for scholarly pursuits immediately set the Mekhitarist Order in the forefront of Oriental studies: the monastery published Armenian historical, philological and literary works and related material, renowned for their scholarship and accuracy as well as for the beauty of the editions, on its own multilingual presses, which shut down in 1991, although an eighteenth-century printing press may still be seen.

It lacks a grammatical gender and has 7 grammatical cases ; its grammar is closely related to Armenian, with the vocabulary being almost exclusively Indic.

Armenian and its most closely related relatives.

The Republic of Armenia and several other nations recognize the deaths to have occurred during an Armenian Genocide. Most estimates of related Armenian deaths between 1915 to 1918 range from 300, 000 to 1. 5 million.

Notable holdings include Russian revolutionary movements and revolutions, Russian and East European dissident writings, modern Armenian and Central Asian history and literature ; the South Asia Division, which includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tibet, and Afghanistan ; and the Southeast Asia Division, which is especially strong in materials related to the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia, but also has substantial holdings in English and Aboriginal language materials from Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania.

Historically, the term was influenced by the Gothic term * haiþi, appearing as haiþno in Ulfilas ' bible for translating gunē Hellēnis, " Greek ( i. e. gentile ) woman " of Mark 7: 26, probably with an original meaning " dwelling on the heath ", but it was also suggested by Jacob Grimm in his Deutsche Mythologie ( Teutonic Mythology ) that it was chosen because of its similarity to Greek ethne " gentile " or even that it is not related to " heath " at all, but rather a loan from Armenian hethanos, itself loaned from Greek ethnos.

The list of publications ( see a list of selected publications below ) include more than 10 books ( translations ) of Greek literature, 10 books on the Armenian Question and five books related to the Jews in Turkey.

* an extensive display of photographs, maps, and Turkish documents ( with translation ) related to the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey.