NAXARAR, term given to the para-feudal, social pattern that early Armenia apparently shared with Parthian Iran, although it was preserved…

SMBAT BAGRATUNI, distinguished Armenian prince and head of the Bagratid house (see BAGRATIDS) at the turn of the 6th to…

TIGRAN II, THE GREAT, king of Armenia (r. 95-55 BCE). Tigran (Tigranes) II was the most distinguished member of the…

MOVSĒS XORENAC‘I  (Moses of Khorene), from the later Middle Ages, and down to the present, honored as the “Father of…

MAMIKONEAN FAMILY, the most distinguished family in Early Christian Armenia after the ruling Arsacid house. Their power survived the fall of…

ARMENO-IRANIAN RELATIONS in the pre-Islamic period. The appearance of Armenian literature in the second half of the fifth century CE,…