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2400 BC - 590 BCName of Armenia Hayk Hayasa-Azzi Nairi · Urartu Antiquity
591 BC - 428 ADOrontid Armenia Kingdom of Armenia Kingdom of Sophene Kingdom of Commagene Lesser Armenia Roman Armenia Dynasties: Orontid · Artaxiad · Arsacid Middle Ages
429 - 1375Marzpanate Period Byzantine Armenia Sassanid Armenia Arab conquest of Armenia Emirate of Armenia Bagratid Armenia Kingdom of Vaspurakan Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia Zakarid Armenia Dynasties: Bagratid · Rubenid · Artsruni Foreign Rule
1376 - 1918Persian · Ottoman · Russian Armenian Oblast Armenian national movement Hamidian massacres Armenian Genocide Contemporary
1918 - presentDemocratic Republic of Armenia Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Nagorno-Karabakh War Republic of Armenia
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The name Armenia enters English via Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἀρμενία. The Armenian endonym for the Armenian people and country is hayer and hayk’, respectively. The exact etymology of the name is unknown, and there are various speculative attempts to connect it to older toponyms or ethnonyms.
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Etymology
The earliest attestations of the exonym Armenia date around the 6th century BC. In his trilingual Behistun Inscription, Darius I the Great of Persia refers to Urashtu (in Babylonian) as Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
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