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What is being done to Armenian monuments in Artsakh now is not new and it is not vandalism. Seda Parsamyan traces the demolition policy of the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s and puts the legal question directly: when a state sets out to erase a people's churches, at what point does that become cultural genocide? She works through how the concept has been defined, redefined and quietly narrowed by people who would rather it did not apply. The frame she builds is the one now being reached for over Artsakh.

Mass Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage during the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)

Parsamyan, Seda A. · 2023 · International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 5–34 (AGMI, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0043
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Topic:Armenian etymology
Showing 2 of 2 matching publications (200 total) · catalogue updated 2026-07-22
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Armenian Toponyms Based on Plant-Names in the Province of Syunik

Martirosyan, Hrach · Aramyan, Anna, 2025
ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 19 (2025), pp. 298–319

The authors take a linguistic route into the question of Armenian continuity in Syunik and Artsakh, arguing from dialect evidence rather than political claim. Their material is toponyms formed from plant designations, drawn chiefly from the tax list of the twelve regions of Syunik in Stepanos Orbelean's History of Syunik. Many preserve phonological developments and lexical items specific to the Syunik-Artsakh dialect region, which the authors read as evidence of long-term continuity of Armenian there. They frame the study against Classical Armenian sources, the seventh-century Ashkharhatsoyts, khachkars, inscriptions and colophons, and read the plant-derived names as showing a close tie between communities and the landscape they inhabited.

Armenian toponymyArmenian etymologySyunik-Artsakh dialectologyhistorical geographyethnobotany
English
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Étymologie et usages du feu (krak) en arménien classique (Etymology and Uses of 'Fire' (krak) in Classical Armenian)

Arzoumanov, Jean, 2024
Revue des Études Arméniennes, Vol. 42 (2023-2024), pp. 77–98 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/REA.42.0.3293638

Reassesses how the two Classical Armenian words for 'fire', krak and howr, differ in usage. A close reading of Eghishe's History of Vardan shows krak in distinct contexts, especially connected with Zoroastrian fire worship, a distinction visible in the Buzandaran as well. Reviewing krak and its cognates in the Armenian Bible reveals semantic overlap, including an instance where krak means 'embers'. On that basis Arzoumanov proposes a Middle Iranian etymon for Armenian krak and its Georgian counterpart, reconstructed via a Middle Persian word for 'oven', with a semantic shift from 'oven' to 'fire' plausibly in a Zoroastrian ritual setting where fire altars resembled ovens.

Armenian etymologyClassical Armenian lexiconIranian-Armenian contactKartvelian parallelsZoroastrianism in Armenia
French

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