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unusual facts about Greater Armenia


Greater Armenia

United Armenia, a political goal of Armenian irredentists, sometime known as "Greater Armenia"


Names of Asian cities in different languages

also written as Erzerum or Erzeroum in some texts until the early 20th century, formerly known as Arzen during the Roman period, Theodosiopolis (after Theodosius I) during the Byzantine period and Karin (Կարին) in Armenian (hence Karnu-kalaki, კარნუ-ქალაქი, of the medieval Georgians)


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Hethum I, King of Armenia

In 1254, Hethum himself traveled through Central Asia to Mongolia to renew the agreement, passing through the Turkish states of eastern Asia Minor, the Mongol camp at Kars in Greater Armenia, the Iron Gates of Derbent at the western short of the Caspian Sea, and from there across Asia to Karakorum.

Lesser Armenia

Lesser Armenia was reunited with the kingdom of Greater Armenia under the Arshakuni king Tiridates III in AD 287, until the temporary conquest of Shapur II in 337.