The Armenians
by Redgate, A. E., (Anne Elizabeth)
"This is a 3000 year history of one of Europe's most fascinating and important peoples. Situated on the south-east coast of the Black Sea, Armenia has been a pivotal point between the forces of the east and of the west over most of its long history. That history has thus been very largely one of conquest by rival empires. In the classical period Armenia was conquered successively by the Persians, Seleucids and the Greeks (under Alexander). The flourishing of an independent and powerful Armenian…
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- Full title :The Armenians / A.E. Redgate.
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"This is a 3000 year history of one of Europe's most fascinating and important peoples. Situated on the south-east coast of the Black Sea, Armenia has been a pivotal point between the forces of the east and of the west over most of its long history. That history has thus been very largely one of conquest by rival empires. In the classical period Armenia was conquered successively by the Persians, Seleucids and the Greeks (under Alexander). The flourishing of an independent and powerful Armenian society in the last three centuries before Christ was dissipated by successive invasions of Romans, Parthians and Persians. Book jacket."--Jacket
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- Publication Date:2000.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Blackwell
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2000.
The Physical Object
- Description:xviii, 331 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0631220372, 9780631220374, 0631143726, 9780631143727
- oclc:ocm48166013
- LC Classification:DS175
- Dewey Decimal:956.6
Table of Contents
1. Origins -- 2. Early History: The 'Armenian' Environment c. 1165-590 BC -- 3. Foreign Rule: Medes, Persians and Greeks, 590-190 BC -- 4. Autonomy and Empires: Artaxias I to Tiridates I, 18 BC -- 63 AD -- 5. Arsacid Rule: Tiridates I -- Tiridates IV, AD 66-AD 298/9 -- 6. The Establishment of Christianity and the End of the Monarchy, c. 300-c. 428 -- 7. Culture and Repression: Partitioned Armenia c. 428-c. 640 -- 8. Arab Rule and the Revival of Kingship, c. 640-884 -- 9. Kings and Migrants, 884-c. 1071 -- 10. Armenians and Europe, to c. 1100 AD -- 11. The Third Millennium 1071-1995.
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