[image ALT: Much of my site will be useless to you if you've got the images turned off!]

Armenia

A country in southwestern Asia: 29,800 sq. km. Population in 2004: 3,000,000. Capital: Yerevan

[image ALT: A view of most of a medium-sized church — the ground is not visible — comprising several roughly cubical sections, each surmounted by arched cupolas, the largest of which is twelve-sided. It is the cathedral of Etchmiadzin in Armenia.]

The icon I use to indicate this subsite is a cropped and colorized version of the photograph of the cathedral of Etchmiadzin that follows p432 of my edition of Kurkjian's History. Etchmiadzin is appropriately described by Kurkjian (pp120‑121) as "the holy city, as well as the intellectual center of the Armenian nation".

Gosh, there ought to be some intro text here. Well, for now, there is none — other than to alert you to the important Armenia resources listed at the bottom of this page — but I do have a large book for you to read:

[ 526 pages of print presented as 59 webpages;
29 photos, 66 engravings ]
A History of Armenia by Vahan Kurkjian covers its topic from the Paleolithic to the mid‑20c. This being the Web, here and there I've added some useful links — and if I ever go to Armenia, there will be some better pictures, too.

Images with borders lead to more information. The thicker the border, the more information. (Details here.)

UP TO: [Link to my homepage]
Home

OFF
SITE: [An offsite link]
Government
of Armenia
President
of Armenia
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

Hye Etch
Cilicia.Com
Society for Armenian Studies
R. Bedrosian's Armenian History [An offsite link]
Armenica.Org
Armeniapedia

Artsakh World
ArmenianHouse.Org
Armenian Research Center
P. Yergir's site
G. Frysinger's site
Syunik Regional Web Site

[An offsite link]
Armenia: Catholic Encyclopedia
Armenian General Benevolent Union

A page or image on this site is in the public domain only if its URL has a total of one *asterisk.
If the URL has two **asterisks, the item is copyright someone else, and used by permission or fair use.
If the URL has none the item is © Bill Thayer. See my copyright page for details and contact information.