[rktman]

Mrs rktman went to Armenia not long after the Soviet Union fell apart to help teach capitalism/free market practices at the university in Yeravan. Her bosse's husband was Armenian so he went along to help as an interpreter. Both scary and beautiful at the time. Intermittent electricity and water and the Armenian black market/mafia was on full display. An experience of a life time in a place where Christianity is still number one surrounded my moose limbs. She recalls the people there being very kind and giving.

[faithhopecharity]

In a very dangerous location. Needs to be strong and alert at all times.

[2banana]

From the beginning...the diversity was embraced

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In 1064, Muslim Sultan Alp Arslan and his Seljuk Turkish army invaded and destroyed the city of Ani. Arab historian Sibt ibn al-Jawzi recorded: “The army entered the city, massacred its inhabitants, pillaged and burned it, leaving it in ruins. … Dead bodies were so many that they blocked the streets; one could not go anywhere without stepping over them. And the number of prisoners was not less than 50,000 souls.

[bramps]

Thanks for a very interesting read. I’m Armenian and very likely learned where my name(Gregory) came from in the article. Never a bad thing to have pointed out just how evil Islam is and what Muslims are capable of and actually mandated to do.

[bramps]

Thanks for a very interesting read. I’m Armenian and very likely learned where my name(Gregory) came from in the article. Never a bad thing to have pointed out just how evil Islam is and what Muslims are capable of and actually mandated to do.

[imardmd1]

In Isaiah 3738 the word translated in the KJV to "Armenia" is in the Hebrew language of the OT actually sounded out as "Ararat" (Strong's Number H780 אררט )

[Publius]

Armenia was first mentioned by name in 520 B.C. by Darius the Great of Persia in his Behistun inscription, as being one of the countries he sent troops into to put down a revolt.

When Xenephon retreated from Persia, the Armenian tribesmen gave his army a brutal shellacking.

[billakay]

I was in Yerevan last March, and it is a beautiful place filled with very warm people. I planned on three days to process a visa renewal at another country’s embassy, but got “stuck” for almost two weeks because the process ended up being longer. Not a bad case of being stranded, for sure.

[Rebelbase]

A timely article as I am in the midst of reading A History Of The Balkans by Ferdinand Schevill

[gundog]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y7wrwctQS3s

[imardmd1]

FWIW, more on Biblical "Armenia" :

Albert Barnes' "Notes on the Bible"
Isaiah 37:38 (see 2 kings 19:37
Into the land of Armenia - Hebrew, as Margin, ‘Ararat.’ The Chaldee renders this, ‘The land of קרדוּ qaredû, that is, Kardi-anum, or, the mountains of the Kurds. The modern Kurdistan includes a considerable part of the ancient Assyria and Media, together with a large portion of Armenia. This expression is generally substituted for Ararat by the Syriac, Chaldee, and Arabic translators, when they do not retain the original word Ararat. It is a region among the mountains of Ararat or Armenia. The Syriac renders it in the same way - ‘Of Kurdoya’ (the Kurds). The Septuagint renders it, ‘Into Armenia.’ Jerome says that ‘Ararat was a champaign region in Armenia, through which the Araxes flowed, and was of considerable fertility.’ Ararat was a region or province in Armenia, near the middle of the country between the Araxes and the lakes Van and Oroomiah. It is still called by the Armenians Ararat. On one of the mountains in this region the ark of Noah rested Gen_8:4. The name ‘Ararat’ belongs properly to the region or country, and not to any particular mountain. For an account of this region, see Sir R. K. Porter’s Travels, vol. i. pp. 178ff; Smith and Dwight’s Researches in Armenia, vol. ii. pp. 73ff; and Morier’s Second Journey, p. 312. For a very interesting account of the situation of Ararat, including a description of an ascent to the summit of the mountain which besrs that name, see the Bib. Rep. for April, 1836, pp. 390-416. ‘The origin of the name Armenia is unknown. The Armenians call themselves after their fabulous progenitor Haig, and derive the name Armen from the son of Haig, Armenag. They are probably a tribe of the ancient Assyrians; their language and history speak alike in favor of it. Their traditions say also that Haig came from Babylon.

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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge Armenia: Heb. Ararat, Gen. 8:4; Jer. 51:27 Genesis 8:4

Ararat: Ararat is generally understood to be Armenia, as it is rendered elsewhere, in which there is a great chain of mountains, like the Alps or the Pyrenees, upon the highest part of which, called by some, "The Finger Mountain," the ark is supposed to have rested. 2 Kings19:37; Isa.37:38; Jer.51:27

Jeremiah 51:27

Ararat: Bochart reasonably concludes Ararat and Minni to be the greater and lesser Armenia; and Ashchenaz he thinks formed part of Phrygia near the Hellespont, part of that country being called Ascania by Homer. Cyrus had conquered Armenia, defeated Croesus king of Lydia (bc 548), and subdued several nations from the Egean sea to the Euphrates, before he marched against Babylon; and Xenophon also informs us that there were not only Armenians, but both Phrygians and Cappadocians in the army of Cyrus.

[imardmd1]

If I could travel abroad, I have a great desire to see the terrain and condition of the geography that gave rise to human culture, Anatolia, and the Chaldean mountains, Lake Van, as well as the area that lies near the Turkey/Syrian border: Sanliurfa, and so on. Even more so than touring Israel (which would be next high on my list), which is where most Bible students tritely insist on visiting.

Thanks for posting articles on this region, it is so interesting for me.