Ancient sources of Europeans about their ancestral homeland – Armenia
03/12/2019
Preface. Armenia is one of the oldest countries in the world. The indigenous inhabitants of the Armenian Highlands are Armenians (hay-Armenians). Armenians are one of the most ancient nations of Asia Minor, and research, as studies show, is one of the most ancient languages in the world, spoken by more than 9000 years ago in the Armenian Highlands and in the surrounding regions.
According to new research, these territories are also the ancestral home of the ancestors of Indo-Europeans (Aryan tribes), and since this era the tribes have been resettled from their original homeland to their current places of residence – vast territories from Europe to India.
The oldest maps of the world also indicate that the Armenians are the oldest inhabitants of West Asia, and Armenia is one of the oldest countries in the world. The most ancient image of Mother Earth and the Cosmos known to us – the Sumerian picture of the world, drawn on a clay tablet, dates from the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. The plate shows the mountains (Armenian Highlands), originating in these mountains of the Tigris and Euphrates and Mesopotamia rivers (see page 96).
These ancient territories known to Sumerians were inhabited by Hay-Armenians even before the Semitic tribes (Akkadians, later Babylonians, Assyrians; the middle of the 3rd millennium BC) appeared in Mesopotamia;
It is known that the original places of settlement of the Sumerians were the southern parts of the Armenian Highlands, and from here they, having made a small displacement, appeared in the South, or Lower Interfluve.
The results of archaeological excavations show that in the V – IV millennium BC the Sumerians already lived in the Lower Mesopotamia.
In the poems – the Sumerian heroic epic “Gilgamesh” (“Gilgamesh and the Land of Immortals”), the tales “Enmerkar and the High Priest of Aratta”, “Lugalbanda and Mount Hurum” and others have evidence of “a country of high mountains,” a country of gods, ” the land of the immortals, the land of the holy laws and the sacred rites of the land of Aratta.
Aratta is one of the most ancient names of Armenia. Note that the movement of the Sumerians to the south is the first known migration from the Armenian Highlands.
Armenia is also represented on the Babylonian star-shaped map (6th century BC), on the map of Hecatey of Miletus (517 BC), on a map drawn up on the basis of Herodot’s “History” work (5th century BC). .e.), etc.
From the Armenian Highlands and the nearby territories they also moved to the east, west and north. It is known that in the middle of the II millennium BC From the west, tribes came to India that called themselves ari or arya, as well as ayu and (h) ayu.
They used horses, war chariots and were armed with metal weapons. This is evidenced by the ancient Indian written sources “Rigveda” and “Mahabharata”.
In the scientific world, it is considered that Iranian tribes (Medes, Persians, Parthians) appeared in Iran in the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. The Iranian tribes left their ancestral home, taking with them the gods’ cults, customs, traditions, way of life, as well as the awareness of belonging to the Ari tribe and the self-name Ari.
This is evidenced by the written in VII. BC. the holy book “Avesta” (later, in the early Middle Ages, on the basis of oral traditions, the Zend-Avesta was written – the translation of the “Avesta” into Middle Persian and comments on the text).
The tribes that left their homeland, having established themselves in the new territories, remember the gods of their ancestral homeland, their fellow tribesmen, their belonging to the Aryan tribe, their customs, life, etc. With special love and respect, they remember their relatives who remained in their homeland and try to keep memories of both of them and their ancestral homeland.
Preserved written sources provide important information about the history of ancient Armenia and Armenian / Aryan tribes. Note that this is a story not only of the tribes that have left, but also of the “mother” tribe of hay-Armenians remaining there.
The tribes moved to the east and went to the north. Some of them through the Caucasus, the other part – bypassing the Caspian Sea, reach the north-western region of the Caspian region and the northern regions of the Black Sea region. Then the ancestors of the Indo-Europeans (Aryan tribes) move to the west – to Europe, as indicated by archaeological excavations.
During these movements, a part of the tribes found themselves in the Balkans. They appeared in the western parts of Asia Minor, from where they also moved to Europe. As we can see, the ancestors of the Indo-Europeans – the Aryan tribes – from the ancestral homeland – the Armenian Highland and its neighboring regions – came to Europe from the east, through the Caucasus and from the south-west of Asia Minor.
Roman written sources (Tacitus) contain information about the ancient history of European peoples, especially about the Gauls (Celts), about the German, British and other tribes.
Later (IX – XV centuries, even XVIII centuries) written sources of European nations (English, German: “The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”, “Das Annolied”, “Kaiserkronik”, “Das Rolandslied des Pfaffen Konrad”, “Chronica Baioariorum ”) set forth the history of their people, repeatedly testifying that their ancestors (Britons Welsh, Bavarians, as well as Basques, Slavs) came from Armenia.
In these written sources, they constantly mention “brave and proud Armenia”, “sacred Mount Ararat and Noah’s Ark”, “Arax River”, etc. The names Armenia and Ararat are mentioned with love and pride. The same is noted by medieval travelers, geographers and cartographers.
Armenian Natural Environment
On all maps, both ancient and medieval, the authors, referring to the information of the Greek, Roman, European (as well as Arab and other) historiographers and geographers, constantly depict Armenia, Earth Paradise located there, Mount Ararat with Noah’s Ark, etc. . However, by the second half of the nineteenth century. the situation is changing dramatically.
Armenia in ancient and middle ages
Armenia in ancient and middle ages
After the fall of the royal house of Bagratuni (1045) and Cilician Armenia (1375), the struggle for the restoration of an independent Armenian state has not been crowned for many centuries.
If in the medieval written sources of the peoples of Europe “freedom-loving”, “devotional”, “proud”, “country of brave warriors” Armenia was referred to as their ancestral homeland, then from the second half of the XIX century. In the ruling circles of a number of European countries, a different attitude towards Armenia is noted, due to the new geopolitical situation created in Front Asia: the desire to prevent the “sick” Ottoman Empire from dismembering to use this country against Russia, preventing the creation of an Armenian state on the territory of Armenia.
On the maps and in the books, even the toponyms Armenia (Western Armenia, Hayastan) and the Armenian Highlands are replaced with the fictitious names of Anatolia and Kurdistan.
Since the end of the XIX century. with the connivance of the ruling circles of England and Germany, and also with the tacit consent of Russia, which has shown evasiveness and indifference to the fate of Armenia, the most difficult and tragic times occur in Armenian history.
Armenian pogroms are periodically organized in Western Armenia, in Cilician Armenia and on other territories within the Ottoman Empire, which end with the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923.
Many European scientists (Arnold Toynbee, Count August von Gagstgausen, Henryx Hübschman, Johannes Lepsius), referring to information from ancient written sources, write works and articles about the ancient history of Armenia and about the great role of the Armenian people in the development of modern civilization.
However, other researchers appear who are trying to deny the testimony of ancient sources about Armenia and Armenians, ignoring the historical facts testifying to their ancestral homeland.
In the XX and the beginning of the XXI century. scientists again turn to Armenians and Armenia. Based on the results of new anthropological, linguistic and archaeological research, scientists come to the conclusion that the Armenian Highland is the cradle of civilization (David Marshall Lang, Armenia:
Cradle of Civilization, London, 1970), the Armenians with their language are one of the oldest nations in the world, and the Armenian Highlands and nearby territories are the ancestral home of Indo-Europeans (Aryan tribes). At the same time, linguistic studies confirming the antiquity of the Armenian language, which was spoken more than 9000 years ago, are of particular importance.
We note, however, that some authors, by falsifying the facts of historical and geographical science, continue to politicize history, using instead of names Armenia, Armenian Highlands the names “Eastern Turkey”, “Eastern Anatolia”, “territory of modern Turkey”, etc.
Numerous archeological, linguistic, anthropological, and other data suggest that Armenia is the ancestral home of the Hay Armenians and descended from their Aryan tribes. Armenia is also a kolbel of modern civilization.
Today, at the beginning of the XXI century, it is necessary to take as a fact the fact that most of the original homeland of the Aryan tribes – the Armenian Highlands and nearby territories – is in the hands of others.
This is a great pain for Armenians and a great shame for Indo-Europeans – descendants of Aryan tribes. They, especially on today’s Englishmen and Germans, have a large share of the blame, because, acting in the interests of others, they have forgotten their ancestral homeland and “their fellow tribesmen who remained there”.
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