Beautiful Armenia

From Britannica:

Armenian Highland, Russian Armyanskoye Nagorye, also spelled Arm'anskoje Nagor'e, mountainous region of Transcaucasia. It lies mainly in Turkey, occupies all of Armenia, and includes southern Georgia, western Azerbaijan, and northwestern Iran.

Lord Byron (1816-1817 AD)

During the winter of 1816-1817, the English poet Lord Byron studied the Armenian language at the Mkhitarist monastery on the island of San Lazzaro under Father Paschal Aucher. During this time he assisted the Armenian monks in the preparation of an Armenian-English grammar, which he attempted to get published in England. So impressed was Byron with his experience among the Armenian monks that he wrote: These men are the priesthood of an oppressed and noble nation.... It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny ... their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe; and perhaps their language only requires to be more studied to become more attractive.

Armenian is the language to talk to God.

G.G. Byron

There is no other land in the world so full of wonders as the land of Armenians... George Gordon Byron

Lord Byron to Mr. MURRAY

Venice, March 3rd, 1817

If the Scriptures are rightly understood it was in Armenia that Paradise was placed, Armenia, which has paid as dearly as the descendants of Adam for that fleeting participation of its soil in

the happiness if Him who was created from its dust. It was in Armenia that the flood first abated and the dove alighted. But with the disappearance of Paradise itself may be dated almost the unhappiness of the country, for though long a powerful kingdom, it was scarcely ever an independent one, and the satraps of Persia and the pachas of Turkey have alike desolated the region where God created man in his own image.

Some books on Armenia by Foreigners

Our Nordic Race, by Richard Kelly Hoskins. Depicted on the original hardcover of the book is the Armenian goddess of fertility and life, Anahit.

Ewald Banse, Nordic Race in Armenia and Northern Iran (Northern Iran is part of Armenian Highland)

David M. Lang, Armenia: Cradle of Civilization (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1970)

Peoples of the Hills: Ancient Ararat and Caucasus by Charles Allen Burney and D.M. Lang (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971)

The Armenians: A People in Exile (London: Allen and Unwin, 1981)

Armenia and Karabagh: the Struggle for Unity (London: Minority Rights Group, 1991)

Armenian Origin Of The Etruscans

by Robert Ellis

Books/Project on Armenian Aryans written by

German Armenologists Yohannes Lepsus,Paul Rohrbakh

Many German Orientologists like Hans Haynrikh Sheder, Yohannes Fon Lears, Karl Rot, Rev. Gerhard Klinge, and Evar Shteer

"Armeniertum-Arivertum, meaning Armenism-Aryanism

....

Jacquetta Hawkes, "The First Great Civilizations," London, 1967

"Yet the Hurrians did not disappear from history. Away to the North in their Armenian homeland, they entrenched themselves and build up the kingdom of Urartu."

M. Chahin, "The Kingdom of Armenia," London, 2001

"The new kingdom of Urartu, which proved to be the stronghold of the Hurrian race."

Luigi Villari

FIRE AND SWORD IN THE CAUCASUS

"The Land of Ararat"

"We are now in the true Armenia, the original home of the Haik people.

Trdat the Architect (Armenian: Տրդատ ճարտարապետ, circa 940s -- 1020; Latin: Tiridates) was the chief architect of the Bagratuni kings of Armenia, whose 10th century monuments have been argued to be the forerunners of Gothic architecture which came to Europe several centuries later.

After a great earthquake in 989 ruined the dome of Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine officials summoned Trdat to Byzantium to organize repairs. The restored dome was completed by 994.

"Armenian Architecture as Aryan Architecture: The Role of Indo-European Scholarship in the Theories of Joseph Strzygowski." Visual Resources, 13, pp. 361--78.

An appraisal by Langlois and others

That this last episode in the story of Armenia is full of romance, is admitted by all those who have studied the subject. In a passing remark about the monuments of Cilicia, Gustave Schlumberger refers to it as "the glorious kingdom of Lesser Armenia." Here is the testimony of Victor Langlois: "Numerous are those events, those brilliant traditions, — and however lamely we may follow the course of Armenia's victories and progress; however hastily we may examine the organization of her aristocracy and clergy; however slightly we may study her relations with the Western nations and the wars which she waged against the enemies, still shall we see that . . . the historical documents of this country contain the memories of a glorious past."

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