Armenian militia, or " fedayee " played a major role in the independence of various Armenian states, including the now inexistent Western Armenia, the Democratic Republic of Armenia, and the currently de-facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

* May 10 – Zahrad, Western Armenian poet ( d. 2007 )

* King Yazdegerd II summons the leading Armenian nobles to the Persian capital Ctesiphon, pressuring them to cut their ties with the Western Church.

Gyula ( Jules ) Halász ( the Western order of his name ) was born in Brassó, Transsylvania, Kingdom of Hungary ( since 1920 Braşov, Romania ), to an Armenian mother and a Hungarian father.

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Modern historians, however, state that the truth of the matter is this: There are indeed numerous ancient records of Mongol raids and occupations of Jerusalem ( from Western, Armenian, or Arab sources ), and in 1300 the Mongols did achieve a brief victory in Syria which caused a Muslim retreat, and allowed the Mongols to launch raids into the Levant as far as Gaza for a period of a few months.

The Fasli, Qadimi and the Shahanshahi all ( notionally ) start each of the 30 day long months with the Sun entering a new constellation, similar to the Vedic ( Hindu ) Solar calendars as reflected in the Jyotisha ( Vedic Astrology ), and the Armenian calendar, but different from the Iranian ( Jalaali ) Calendar, the Julian Calendar, the Mayan Haab Calendar and the French Revolutionary Calendar, whose epochs of the months are fixed to the equinoxes / solstices, as are the signs of Western Astrology.

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.

Most Armenians in the diaspora are not from the Republic of Armenia but from Western Armenia ( modern day Eastern Turkey ), mainly those who descended from the survivors of the Armenian Genocide.

As late as the early twentieth century, Kurdish chieftains ( khafirs ) in Western Armenia reserved the right to bed Armenian brides on their wedding night.

The control of the Darial Pass switched to the Western Turkic Kaganate in 628, when Tong Yabgu Kagan ( Djebukagan of Armenian annals ) signed a treaty with Albania, transferring over to the Kaganate the control of all its cities and fortresses, and establishing free trade.

Over 60 years had passed since the Ottoman Empire had embarked on the campaign to exterminate its Armenian population, which was largely concentrated in its eastern provinces and referred to at the time as Western Armenia.

The Jewish Quarter (, HaRova HaYehudi, known colloquially to residents as HaRova,, Ḩārat al-Yahūd ) lies in the southeastern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Zion Gate in the south, along the Armenian Quarter on the west, up to the Cardo in the north and extends to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount in the east.

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Eastern Armenian ( arevelahayeren ) is one of the two standardized forms of modern Armenian ( an Indo-European language ), the other being Western Armenian.

Due to migrations of speakers from Armenia and Iran to the Armenian Diaspora, the dialect is now very prominent in countries and regions where only Western Armenian was used.

Eastern Armenian and Western Armenian are easily mutually intelligible.

Western Armenian (,, sometimes — most often during the first half of the 20th century — referred to also as, " Turkish-Armenian ") is one of the two standardized forms of modern Armenian, the other being Eastern Armenian.

It is the majority language of the western half of South Africa — the provinces of the Northern Cape and Western Cape — and the primary language of the coloured and white communities.

Little is known of its origins but it is likely that an early form of the Basque language was present in Western Europe before the arrival of the Indo-European languages to the area.

The bestiary, then, is also a reference to the symbolic language of animals in Western Christian art and literature.

One language, Interlingua, was developed so that the languages of Western civilization would act as its dialects.

Drawing from such concepts as the international scientific vocabulary and Standard Average European, linguists developed a theory that the modern Western languages were actually dialects of a hidden or latent language.

It should be noted, however, that the vocabulary of Interlingua extends beyond the Western language families.

The system is widely used in Western study of the Chinese language and by international bodies such as the United Nations and the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO 7098 ).

Native to the southern Balkans Western Asia Minor and the Aegean, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records.

The Greek language holds an important place in the histories of Europe, the more loosely defined Western world, and Christianity ; the canon of ancient Greek literature includes works of monumental importance and influence for the future Western canon, such as the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey.

Greek was also the language in which many of the foundational texts of Western philosophy, such as the Platonic dialogues and the works of Aristotle, were composed ; the New Testament of the Christian Bible was written in Koiné Greek.

The language is also spoken by Greek emigrant communities in many countries in Western Europe, especially the United Kingdom and Germany, in Canada and the United States, Australia, as well as in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and others.

Ironically, given the status of the Western Isles as the last Gàidhlig-speaking stronghold in Scotland, the Gaelic language name for the islands – Innse Gall – means " isles of the foreigners " which has roots in the time when they were under Norse colonisation.

However, since it also shares similarities with other Western Indo-European branches ( particularly Germanic ), some linguists prefer to consider it an independent Indo-European language.

It is generally believed that it was during this centuries-long eastward migration that the Inuit language became distinct from the Yupik languages spoken in Western Alaska and Chukotka.

The arguments of Scotus, combined with a better acquaintance with the language of the early Fathers, gradually prevailed in the schools of the Western Church.

For example, in the Japanese language up to and including the first half of the 20th century, the phonemic sequence was palatalized and realized phonetically as, approximately chi ; however, now and are distinct, as evidenced by words like tī " Western style tea " and chii " social status ".

His first work in Rome was an account of the Jewish War, addressed to certain " upper barbarians " – usually thought to be the Jewish community in Mesopotamia — in his " paternal tongue " ( War I. 3 ), arguably the Western Aramaic language.

The Kyrgyz language belongs to the Western Turkic group of languages.

However, they also remarked that the language spoken in Macedonia had somewhat of a distinctive character — often described as a " Western Bulgarian dialect " as other Bulgarian dialects in modern western Bulgaria.

Mokèlé-mbèmbé, meaning " one who stops the flow of rivers " in the Lingala language is a legendary water-dwelling creature of Congo River basin folklore, sometimes described as living creature, sometimes as a spirit, and loosely analogous to the Loch Ness Monster in Western culture.

The result is a language easy to understand at first sight for individuals acquainted with several Western European languages.

Elsewhere, ethnic Poles constitute large minorities in Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine: Polish is the most widely used minority language in Lithuania's Vilnius County ( 26 % of the population, according to the 2001 census results ) and is found elsewhere in southeastern Lithuania ; in Ukraine it is most common in the Lviv and Lutsk regions, while in Western Belarus it is used by the significant Polish minority especially in the Brest and Grodno regions and in areas along the Lithuanian border.

Known as Tractarians after their production of Tracts for the Times on theological issues, they advanced the case for the Church of England being essentially a part of the ' Western Church ', of which the Roman Catholic Church was the chief representative.

While this prohibition remained in force in general throughout the middle and early modern ages, this is no longer the case and Western women are often seen wearing trousers, ties, and men's hats.

While some anti-imperialist narratives notably those of historians within the People's Republic of China as well as Western Marxist histories incorporate anti-imperialist narratives in their histories, many anti-imperialist narratives are non-Marxist or as in the case of the Kuomintang in the 1960s, actively anti-Marxist.

In the case of both Catholics – ( Western and ) Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox, they are usually leaders of territorial units called dioceses ( or its equivalent in the east, an eparchy ).

Stalin intended these to be a buffer in case of another war, as the USSR was beginning to enter a struggle for global dominance with the Western world.

Jewellery can also be symbolic of group membership, as in the case of the Christian crucifix or Jewish Star of David, or of status, as in the case of chains of office, or the Western practice of married people wearing a wedding ring.

Riding to battle had two key advantages: it reduced fatigue, particularly when the elite soldiers wore armour ( as was increasingly the case in the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman empire ); and it gave the soldiers more mobility to react to the raids of the enemy, particularly the Muslim invasions which reached Europe in 711.

Morocco protested the proposed referendum and took its case to the International Court of Justice at The Hague, which ruled that despite historical “ ties of allegiance ” between Morocco and the tribes of Western Sahara, there was no legal justification for departing from the UN position on self-determination.

The term " nominative case " is most properly used in the discussion of nominative – accusative languages, such as Latin, Greek, and most modern Western European languages.

On 19 September 2006, the Federal Court of Australia brought down a judgment recognising Noongar native title over the Perth metropolitan area, in the case of Bennell v State of Western Australia FCA 1243.

In the case of Afghanistan, the Soviets could achieve a dual purpose: by strengthening relations with the leadership in Kabul, they could also threaten Britain, which was one of the Western states supporting counterrevolution in the Soviet Union.

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English ( and in other Western European languages ) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas ( of nine ) from a poem by Isaac Watts ( from 1719 ) cited immediately below ( in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708 ):

WNV has now spread globally, with the first case in the Western Hemisphere being identified in New York City in 1999 ; over the next 5 years, the virus spread across the continental United States, north into Canada, and southward into the Caribbean Islands and Latin America.

( This latter is still the case in many Western countries, though the lifting of legal penalties and social stigma regarding illegitimacy has rendered this irrelevant to social acceptance.

No case of stigmata is known to have occurred before the thirteenth century, when the depiction of the crucified Jesus in Western Christendom emphasized his humanity.

They have compared production and investment in a range of Western and non-Western countries and presented case studies of growth and performance in important individual industries and market-economic sectors.

So although intricate combinations of pitches sounding simultaneously do occur in Indian classical music, they are rarely studied as teleological harmonic or contrapuntal progressions, which is the case with notated Western music.

In return for the government's agreement not to pursue its case against AT & T as a monopolist, AT & T agreed to divest the controlling interest it had acquired in the Western Union telegraph company, and to allow non-competing independent telephone companies to interconnect with the AT & T long distance network.

Traditionally, the processes of making ukiyo-e — the design, carving, printing, and publishing — were separated and done by different and highly specialized people ( as was also traditionally the case with Western woodcuts ).

Business schools often obtain case studies published by the Harvard Business School, INSEAD, the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario, the Darden School at the University of Virginia, IESE, other academic institutions, or case clearing houses ( such as European Case Clearing House ).

In the " evil empire " speech, which also dealt with domestic issues, Reagan made the case for deploying NATO nuclear armed missiles in Western Europe as a response to the Soviets installing new nuclear armed missiles in Eastern Europe.

In standard Western musical notation, the staff, or stave, is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch — or, in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.