The Byzantine Empire How did the Byzantine Empire come to existence?After the split of the Roman Empire in 395 A.D., There remained a Western Roman Empire (with its capital in…

Ottoman Empire Beginning: The Appearance of Turks in Anatolia Seljuk Turks During the 11th century, the first Turks appeared around Anatolia, which was populated by Greeks, Armenians, Persians, Arabs, Kurds,…

Armenian Alphabet Creation The Armenian alphabet was invented in 405 A.D. by Mesrop Mashtots, who was helped by king Vramshapuh and Catholicos Sahak (Issac) Partev. They gathered groups of translators…

General Remarks of Life in Soviet Armenia Life in the Soviet Armenia was not easy, but living in the Soviet Union had great benefits to it; the education was of…

Background Armenia was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also known as the Soviet Union, from 1920 to 1990. It was called the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic…

Earliest Records Before the foundation of Armenia, the first record of an Armenian state is "Aratta", which existed in approximately the 27th to 28th century B.C. Thanks to Sumerian inscriptions,…

Summary of Battle of Avarayr The Battle of Avarayr took place in 451 A.D. The war was fought between the Sassanid Persian army and the Christian Armenian army. The war…

Biography Tigran the Great, also known as Tigranes II, was the King of Armenia from 95 B.C. until his death in 55 B.C. Tigranes II was born in 140 B.C.…