CONTENTS
Acknowledgment 1
Preface 2
The Land 4
Before the Dawn 8
The Neighbors of Armenia 14
Ancestral Stocks 18
The Hittite Empire 24
The Country of Hayasa-Khayasha 29
The Kingdom of Urartu 33
The Beginnings of Armenia 42
Armenia as Xenophon Saw It 47
Alexander the Great and his Successors 51
Artashesian and Zarehian Kingdoms of Armenia 54
The Armenian Kingdom 57
Tigran the Great 62
Aravad - The Last Tigrans 70
Rivalry between Parthia and Rome 75
Persian Civilization 83
The Arsacids (Arshakunis) of Armenia 87
Trdat III and St. Grigor (Gregory) 94
Successors of Trdat — Partition of Armenia 102
Period of the Marzbans — Battle of Avarair 115
Vahan Mamikonian and the Patriotic Uprisings 126
Armenia in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries 134
The Arab Khalifate 141
The Bagratid Dynasty - The Bagratuni 152
Magnificence to be Soon Followed by Calamit 159
Destruction of Ani and Spread of the Turkish Power 168
The Barony of Cilician Armenia 174
Greeks, Crusaders and Moslems — Rise of Leon II 186
The Kingdom of Cilician Armenia — Mongol Invasion 192
The Memlouks Are Added to Armenia's Foe 201
French-Armenian Dynasty: End of Kingdom 211
Armenia after the Loss of her Independence 228
The Tragic Prelude 240
Armenian Mythology 245
The Feudal System in Armenia 255
The Armenian Church — Early History 269
The Paulikians and the Tondrakians 281
New Efforts Towards Church Unity 284
Leaning Towards Unity 287
The Armenian Language 297
Armenian Literature 300
Modern Armenian Literature 330
Architecture in Armenia 346
Armenian Sculpture and Painting 354
Armenian Music — Secular and Religious 359
History of Education among the Armenians 364
The Armenians Outside of Armenia 375
The Armenian Republic 388
Bibliography 400