According to the Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi, the beginning of Armenian history was laid in the 15th century BC.t. d.answer: a. 2492, when the ancestor Hayk, a descendant of Abet, named after the Armenian people, won independence by defeating the Assyrian dictator Bell in the battle of the Armenian gorge. [9] From a scientific point of view, it is generally accepted that Armenian-speaking tribes of Indo-European origin lived in the southwestern regions of the Armenian Highlands before our era. Since the end of the 2nd millennium.
Through the efforts of King Aram, the Van kingdom of Urartu was founded in 860 BC, and during its existence, in 782 BC, Menua’s son, King Argishti, founded the impregnable fortress of Erebuni on Arin-Berd hill on the site of the modern capital of Armenia, Yerevan. In the 1st century BC, during the reign of Tigranes II the Great, the kingdom of Great Armenia, united by Artashes the Pious, reached the peak of its power, stretching from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, from the Caucasus Mountains to the Mesopotamian deserts. In the 4th century AD in 301 AD, During the reign of the king of the Arshakunians, Trdat the Great, through the efforts of Gregory the Illuminator, Armenia became the first state in the world to adopt Christianity as the state religion.
The Armenian Apostolic Church, the oldest national church in the world, is still the main religious institution of Armenia. [10] After the fall of the Arshakuni kingdom in the 5th century, Armenia was divided between Sassanid Persia and the Byzantine Empire. In the 9th century, the Bagratuni princes, waging a determined struggle against the Arab conquerors, restored the independent Armenian kingdom, which, however, , It fell into disrepair in 1045 due to wars and internal schisms against the Byzantine Empire. It was during this period that independent state formations were formed in parallel with the central kingdom of Ani in Vaspurakan, Vanand, Lori, Syunik, Artsakh and other places. In the 11th and 14th centuries, the Armenian principality of Cilicia and then the kingdom existed on the Mediterranean coast.
In the 16th and 19th centuries, the Armenian homeland, consisting of Eastern and Western Armenia, fell under the rule of the Ottoman and Persian powers. In the 19th century, Eastern Armenia passed to the Russian Empire., and Western Armenia continued to remain under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
