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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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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 toponymy Armenian etymology Syunik-Artsakh dialectology historical geography ethnobotany

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Communication Network of the Ararat Plain, Armenia: Geographical, Economic, Political Dimensions (1st Millennium BC – 1st Millennium AD)

Zardaryan, Mkrtich H., 2025

ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 18 (2025), pp. 48–75

Zardaryan reconstructs the road system of the Ararat Plain across two millennia, arguing that the valley's role as the economic hub of the Armenian Highlands was set by geography: its river lines and accessible passes channelled traffic along south-north and east-west axes. With the consolidation of statehood under Urartu the trade-route system expanded sharply, and was inherited and extended by the Ervandid, Artaxian and Arsacid kingdoms; from the sixth century BC these routes integrated into networks reaching the Near East, Central Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean. Narrative, archaeological and numismatic evidence confirms their incorporation into the Silk Road. His clinching illustration: five of the six capitals of Classical and Early Medieval Armenia sit in the Ararat Plain.

Ararat Plain ancient trade routes Urartu Armenian capitals Silk Road

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