Heinrich Schliemann, an excavator of ruins of the famed city of Troy "For Europe, the tragedy was to choose as the basis of its civilization the ancient Greek culture and not the ancient culture of Armenia."

2492 B.C. the official age of the Armenian nation.

Friedrich Nietzsche about Armenians

"Alas!Even for the stalwarts of aryan stock, Armenians, the Christianity have rendered them into subdued weaker self, abolishing once a race of the immense cultural glory and candid splendor!"

Lenormant pictures the early Armenians as "a vigorous, hardy and warlike people, accustomed to the rigors of an ice-cold climate, attached to its homeland, but ready to sacrifice possession, even life, for liberty."

First Christian Nation on earth Armenia, declared 301 A.D. by King Tiridates III

According to the Greek historian Herodotus who lived in the 5th century BC, the Armenians were the first to store and transport wine in wooden barrels.
Herodotus described coracles floated from Armenia down the Euphrates and Tigris rivers to Babylon with the principal cargo of wine in palm wood casks for export.


Robert Ellis -- Armenian Origin of the Etruscans

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


Thutmose III of Egypt, also mentions the people of Ermenen (Armenia) in 1446 BC, and says in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars" (Thutmose was the first Pharoah to cross the Euphrates to reach the Armenian Highlands)


According to the Swedish legend dating from the 10th century, a navigator by the name of Petrus was so enchanted by the beauty of an Armenian princess, that he travelled to Armenia and married her.

Strabo, Geography, 11.13.5: "In ancient times Greater Armenia ruled the whole of Asia, after it broke up the empire of the Syrians."

Elisabeth Bauer (b. 1948)- Austrian Armenologist
In general, much too little has been known about Armenia, even though, culturally speaking, Europe owes her a considerable debt. At the dawn of history, Armenia was one of the cradles of civilization... Millennia before the Christian era, the economy, arts and popular traditions of Armenia had developed to such an extent that her culture stimulated Egypt, Greece and Rome both materially and spiritually.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)- English novelist

1879, "Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche".
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

"If the scriptures are rightly understood, it was in Armenia that paradise was placed. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in the future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe...... And perhaps their language requires to be more studied to become more attractive. Armenian is the language to speak with God." - Lord Byron


Imago Mundi (Babylonian Map of the World) the worlds first map, 6 nations existed on it, today the only nation that exists off of it is Armenia, physical proof for the worlds oldest existing nation.


As you know while Azerbaijan had 3 times more people with much better military equipment when they attacked Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) they aslo had several thousands of Mujahedins from various countries including Chechnya.

In 1995, a Russian journalist asked Shamil Basayev, "Where have you faced defeat?"

He replied, "In 1994, I saw defeat in Martakert, and then suffered an even bigger loss in Fizuli at the hands of the Dashnaks ." Basayev said, "If I'd had twenty boys like the Dashnaks, I would've conquered the whole of Russia."

Shamil Basayev left the war and said, "These people are fighting with belief in their territories, while those on my side do not believe that this land belongs to them. The land is running out from under them."


Naram-Sin recorded the Akkadian's wars against the Armani or Armeni people in Ararat. The Armeni is a reference to Armen who was the ruler of the Armenian tribe (Armen's followers, the Armenians, were refered to as Armeni or Armens at the time). It is not known if Sargon, grandfather of Naram-Sin, and Manishtushu, father of Naram-Sin, also fought against the Armeni people of Ararat during their rule of the Akkadian Empire. It is highly probable however considering that Naram-Sin recorded multiple wars with the Armeni people of Ararat.
In the Assyrian period, the Armenian people of Nairi formed the kingdom of Ararat (well known in Assyrian as Urartu). One of the earliest record of Armenians is from a text which says Armani, Արման (most common Armenian name Arman, the older variant of Armen, Արմեն) together with Ibla, as land conquered by Naram-Sin (2300 BC) identified with an Akkadian colony in the Diarbekr region. To this day the Assyrians speak about Armenians by saying Armani.

Jacques de Morgan remarks; ". . . . Their (Armenians) brothers the Phrygians, are now only a vague memory. The Hellenes, the Italiots and the Gallians alone from among their contemporaries survive at present. . . . Titles of nobility in this race are more than 3000 years old, older than those of the majority of the European nations. (Even) India and China can hardly claim such antiquity of origin."