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PUBL.- Rouben Paul Adalian, Historical Dictionary of Armenia

Historical Dictionary of Armenia
Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East #41
Rouben Paul Adalian 2002
$85.00 Cloth 552 pages 0-8108-4337-4

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At once one of the most ancient countries and one of the newest states of
the modern world, Armenia is rich in history; a history full of drama,
conflict, tragedy, and creativity. The history of few other peoples is so
replete with sustained triumphs across centuries and so many reversals that
unraveled the fruits of those successes. This diverse, complex, and
fractured history of Armenia is covered in all its facets in Historical
Dictionary of Armenia. A history spanning more than three thousand years is
viewed from numerous angles: politics, religion, culture, and ideology. The
principal political institutions, concept and conflicts that shaped and
reshaped the country over the centuries are identified. The political
crises of the modern period that so thoroughly reconfigured the map of
Armenia and determined the international relations of the country are
examined closely. No less attention is paid to prominent figures who
provided leadership and direction to an emergent nation long submerged by
vast empires.

Against this background of the modern history of the Armenian people, the
continuities of their long history are explored through their other
institutions that were formed in the ancient and medieval periods. Founders
of dynasties, key sovereigns, guiding figures in the cultural and religious
life of Armenia, and military leaders are identified in the context of the
main geographic, and especially urban, localities, where they acted out
their pivotal roles. Armenia's ancient kingdoms, medieval principalities,
and modern states are all viewed and examined in the framework of the
prevailing international and hegemonic systems that constantly influenced
the course of events in the Caucasus region.

The life of the Armenian people outside their country is covered also. The
Armenian diaspora is explored as a development integral to the overall
history of the Armenians. Lastly, the web of events from the final years of
the Soviet Union, when Armenia constituted one of its constituent 
republics,
through the turmoil of its breakup and the conflicts among the emergent
nations along the southeasternmost corner of Europe are disentangled and 
the
main developments, personalities, government leaders, political parties and
key policies are all identified and methodically described in relation to
one another for the first time.

Rouben Paul Adalian is Director of the Armenian National Institute in
Washington, D.C. He is the author of From Humanism to Rationalism: Armenian
Scholarship in the Nineteenth Century, the editor of Armenia and Karabagh
Factbook, and associate editor of Encyclopedia of Genocide.

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