* Abul-Faraj, Armenian historian ( b. 1226 )

When discussing Karabakh and Shusha in the 18th century, the Russian diplomat and historian S. M. Bronevskiy ( Russian: С. М. Броневский ) indicated in his Historical Notes that Karabakh, which he said " is located in Greater Armenia " had as many as 30 – 40, 000 armed Armenian men in 1796.

The sources do not agree on how Hormizd was killed: Theophylact Simocatta states ( iv. 7 ) that Khosrau killed him a few days after his father was blinded ; the Armenian historian Sebeos ( History, Ch. 10. 75 ) states that Hormizd's own courtiers killed him.

" A more favorable explanation is offered by the medieval Armenian historian Matthew of Edessa, who states that " Tzimiskes was from the region of Khozan, from the area which is now called Chmushkatzag.

The Armenian historian of the region, Movses Kaghankatvatsi, who left the only more or less complete historical account, also explains the name Aghvank as a derivation from the word ału ( Armenian for sweet, soft, tender ), which, he said, was the nickname of Caucasian Albania's first governor Arran and referred to his lenient personality.

In the 5th century, Armenia ’ s foremost early medieval historian Movses Khorenatsi ( Մովսես Խորենացի ) testifies that the population of Artsakh and Utik spoke Armenian, with the River Kura, in his words, marking the “ boundary of Armenian speech ” (… զեզերս հայկական խօսիցս ).

In his article “ The Albanian Myth ” Russian historian and anthropologist Victor Schnirelmann demonstrated that Azerbaijani academics have been “ renaming prominent medieval Armenian political leaders, historians and writers, who lived in Karabakh and Armenia into “ Albanians .” Victor Schnirelmann argues that these efforts were first launched in the 1950s and were directed towards “ ripping the population of early medieval Karabakh off from their Armenian heritage ” and “ cleansing Azerbaijan of Armenian history .” In the 1970s, Azerbaijan made a transition from ignoring, discounting or concealing Armenian historical heritage in Soviet Azerbaijan to misattributing and mischaracterizing it as examples of Azerbaijani culture by arbitrarily declaring “ Caucasian Albanians ” as ancestors of modern Azerbaijanis.

Armenian carpets were renowned by foreigners who traveled to Artsakh ; the Arab geographer and historian Al-Masudi noted that, among other works of art, he had never seen such carpets elsewhere in his life.

Art historian Hravard Hakobyan notes that " Artsakh carpets occupy a special place in the history of Armenian carpet-making.

The art of carpet weaving was in addition intimately connected to the making of curtains as evidenced in a passage by Kirakos Gandzaketsi, a 13th century Armenian historian from Artsakh, who praised Arzu-Khatun, the wife of regional prince Vakhtang Khachenatsi, and her daughters for their expertise and skill in weaving.

These events are known to us chiefly through the Armenian historian Matthew, who had been born at Edessa.

According to Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi writing in c. 482 AD, Tigranes captured Jerusalem and deported Hyrcanus to Armenia, however most scholars deem this account to be incorrect.

Modern historian Suren Yeremyan disputes this assertion, arguing that ancient Armenian tradition placed Nakhichevan's founding to the year 3669 BC and, in ascribing its establishment to Noah, that it took its present name after the Armenian phrase " Nakhnakan Ichevan " ( Նախնական Իջևան ), or " first landing.

According to the early medieval Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi, from the 3rd to 2nd centuries, the region belonged to the Muratsyan nakharar family but after disputes with central power, King Artavazd I massacred the family and seized the lands and formally attached it to the kingdom.

According to the Armenian historian Faustus of Byzantium ( 5th century ), when the Sassanid Persians invaded Armenia, Sassanid King Shapur II ( 310-380 ) removed 2, 000 Armenian and 16, 000 Jewish families in 360-370.

Due to diplomatic relations with the Mongol Empire, Hethum himself traveled to the Mongol court in Karakorum, Mongolia, which was recorded in the famous account " The Journey of Haithon, King of Little Armenia, To Mongolia and Back " by Hetoum's companion, the Armenian historian Kirakos Gandzaketsi.

Angus Donal Stewart points out that the source of the tradition, a medieval account by the Armenian historian Nerses Balients, does not match with any other accounts by any other historians of the time period, and was simply written as Armenian propaganda of the time.

A Life of Gregory by the Vartabed Matthew was published in the Armenian language at Venice in 1749 and was translated into English by the Rev.

The contemporaneous Armenian chronicler Matthew of Edessa mentions David's brother Totorme, who, according to the modern historian Robert W. Thomson, was his sister.

In the Armenian chronicles of Matthew of Edessa Pechenegs are mentioned a couple of times.

The Armenian Easter Vigil also preserves what is believed to be the original length of the traditional gospel reading of the Easter Vigil, i. e., from the Last Supper account to the end of the Gospel according to Matthew.

According to the contemporary historian Anna Comnena, who knew Pakourianos personally, Gregory was " descended from a noble Armenian family ," while the Armenian chronicler Matthew of Edessa, from 12 century, saying Pakourianos was of " Vrats '" origin had in mind the religious affiliation of Pakourianos.

In 1507 Matthew ( or Matheus ) an Armenian, had been sent as Ethiopian envoy to Portugal to ask aid against Adal.

Likewise Eleni, understanding the increasing threat that Ethiopia faced from the growing Ottoman influence in the region, with the counsel of Pero da Covilhã sent Mateus ( also known as Matthew the Armenian ) as an ambassador to the King of Portugal and the Pope in Rome, a fact that the Portuguese only understood after they arrived in Ethiopia, and which complicated Dom Rodrigo da Lima's mission to the Ethiopian Emperor.

Matthew of Edessa (, Matteos Uṛhayetsi ; born in the second half of the 11th century – 1144 ) was an Armenian historian in the 12th century from the city of Edessa (, Uṛha ).

A man of strong convictions, Matthew was born in Edessa sometime in the second half of the 11th century and was a member of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

In an article published in 1971 by Armenian academician Levon Khachikyan, the author established that one of the sources Matthew used to write his work was that of an 11th century vardapet named Hakob Sanahnetsi ( Hakob of Sanahin ).

Matthew was also a fervent Armenian patriot, lamenting the martyrdom of his people and exalting their heroic deeds.

According to Ibn al-Athir, the intermediary was not Drosus, but the Kurdish emir Nasr ad-Daulah, while the Armenian chronicler Matthew of Edessa asserts that Liparit was released after the Georgian, in the sultan's presence, had defeated a formidable " Negro " champion in single combat.

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.

Her father Baldwin was a crusader knight who carved out the Crusader State of Edessa and married Morphia, daughter of the Armenian Prince Gabriel of Melitene, in a diplomatic marriage to fortify alliances in the region.

To the north are the County of Tripoli, Principality of Antioch, County of Edessa, Principality of Armenian Cilicia, the Byzantine Empire, and the Sultanate of Rum.

The legend of the healing of Abgar V of Edessa by the facecloth of Jesus has been appropriated by the Armenian Church in claiming that Abgar was a prince of Armenia.

Count Baldwin's wife had died in Maraş in 1097, and after he succeeded to Edessa he married Arda, a granddaughter of the Armenian Roupenid chief Constantine.

Edessa was Armenian Mesopotamia's capital city.

In 1914 Edessa had an Armenian population numbering 35000.

Şanlıurfa,, often simply known as Urfa in daily language ( Kurdish Riha, Arabic الرها Ar-Ruhā, Syriac ܐܘܪܗ Urhoy, Armenian Ուռհա Or ' ha ), in ancient times Edessa, is a city with 482, 323 inhabitants ( 2009 estimate ) in south-eastern Turkey, and the capital of Şanlıurfa Province.

He was Armenian and founded a principality from Antioch to Edessa.

The Chronique Rimée de la Petite Arménie (“ The Rhymed Chronicle of Armenia Minor ”) of Vahram of Edessa records that he was the son of Thoros I, lord of Armenian Cilicia.

After the Byzantine withdrawal from the region in the later eleventh century, it was held by Armenian princes until it was absorbed into the Frankish county of Edessa in the years following the First Crusade, and when it was known as ' Ranculat '.

The legend of the healing of Abgar V of Edessa by the facecloth of Jesus has been appropriated by the Armenian Church by claiming that Abgar was a prince of Armenia.

Having thus annexed Raban, Baldwin II of Edessa decided to suppress the remaining Armenian principalities in the Euphrates valley ; thus Toros soon found himself the only independent Armenian potentate that remained.

# Armenian Mesopotamia or Hayots Midjagetq ( with now days cities Urha or Urfa or Edessa or Yedesia, Nisibin or M ' tsbin or Migdonia )

This was a politically convenient marriage, as Baldwin was the first Count of Edessa, a crusader state carved out of Armenian territory in Mesopotamia.