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ARMENIA and IRAN i. Armina, Achaemenid province. ii. The pre-Islamic period. iii. Armenian religion. iv. Iranian influences in Armenian Language. v. Accounts of Iran in Armenian sources. vi. Armeno-Iranian relations in the Islamic period.   See also: ARMENIANS IN MODERN IRAN.

ARMENIA and IRAN i. Armina, Achaemenid Province Armina is named as a province (satrapy) of the Achaemenid empire; the inhabitants are called Arminiya- “Armenian.” As a by-form of the country’s name, the form Arminiya-, is attested six times in DB 2.33-63, but only in the locative form Arminiyaiy (on this word…

ARMENIA AND IRAN  ii. The Pre-Islamic Period 1. The Achaemenid period. The Armenians probably originated from Phrygia (Herodotus 3.19, and see below; Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnika, ed. A. Meineke, Berlin, 1849 [repr. Graz, 1958], s.v. Armenia). In the first half of the 6th century B.C., when they were subjugated by…

ARMENIA and IRAN iii. Armenian Religion The Armenian people, whose language is related probably to the Thraco-Phrygian branch of the Indo-European family, invaded the Armenian Plateau from the west. Stephen the Byzantine (5th century) cites Eudoxus (ca. 370 B.C.): “The Armenians are a people from Phrygia and in their speech…

ARMENIA AND IRAN iv. Iranian Influences in Armenian i. General ARMENIAN, the language of the Armenians, which is attested in written sources since the 5th century A.D. (after the invention of the Armenian alphabet by St. Mesrop Maštocʿ) and which is characterized from the very beginning of the literary documentation…

ARMENIA and IRAN v. Accounts Of Iran in Armenian Sources From the very beginning of the Arsacid period (247 B.C.-A.D. 226) Armenia, from Achaemenian times within the Iranian zone, found itself influenced by Rome. Christianity came to Armenia first, before the conversion of Constantine, from the Syrian south; after 314,…

ARMENIA AND IRAN vi. Armeno-Iranian Relations in the Islamic Period Before the coming of the Saljuqs. The Arab invasions brought about a major transformation in the political life of the countries of the Near East and had a profound influence upon the relations between the peoples living there. The expansion…

Armenian Šuštari title Armenian Šuštari genre/topic maqām language   performer Hoseyn Hamidi instrument Bālābān composer   author/poet   first line of poem   recorded by   place of recording   date of recording   duration 2:05 source Bālābān. Mahoor Institute of Culture and Art, 2007(M.CD-50), track 9. Used with permission…

ARMENIANS OF MODERN IRAN. Armenians can be found in almost every major city of Iran, engaged in a variety of professions and occupations, as university professors, physicians, high-school teachers, businessmen, engineers, skilled workers, truck drivers, artists, technicians, artisans, professional athletes, etc. Their traditional centers of Azerbaijan and Isfahan (since the…

ARMENO-IRANIAN RELATIONS in the pre-Islamic period. The appearance of Armenian literature in the second half of the fifth century CE, in the generation which followed the great revolt of the Armenian nobles in 450 against Yazdgird II’s attempt to re-impose Zoroastrianism on their already Christian country (see EIr. II, pp….

ARMIN, the fourth son of Kay Qobād in certain texts of the Šāh-nāma (ed. Mohl, 11, v. 228; Borūḵīm, II, p. 314; Gozīda-ye loḡat-eŠāh-nāma, v. 191), apparently a misreading of the Av. Kavi Byaršan (Yt. 13.132 and Yt. 19.7) found as Kay Āḏaraš, Kay Āras, Āraš in some other texts…

ARMOR. In this article the following terms are used with specific definition: Lamellar armor—armor built up of small rectangular plates laced together both horizontally and vertically; Laminated armor—armor built up of metal strips. Mail—armor built up of interlocking metal rings. Scalearmor—armor built up of small metal scales laced to a…

ARMOR ii. IN EASTERN IRAN By the 6th, or even 7th, century BCE, the Scythian and Northern Caucasian nomads had formed a complete complex of defensive armor (Chernenko, 1968, p. 164). A series of indirect data indicate that one can also assume a similar time frame for the formation of…