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[Dave]

A language is a living object. It always evolves. Loan words from the greater family=evolution. Loanwords from foreign families=devolution.

Then why would we want to loan from another language if that word exists in Armenian, or if we can probably form a synonymous word anyway? This does not count the more scientific and technical words, of course...

When did the natives have America? The so called natives were migrants from Asia. They were part of the fauna and flora along with other mammals. Nobody took anything away from them, there were no states, flags or armies.

It is generally accepted that migrants from Asia reached America way before the Europeans or Caucasoids. Anyway, I'm not here to defend the natives.

Wait you believe there is a similarity between the first and only Holocaust and what turdish pundits threw at the French government?

I was just trying to say that certain people use similar arguments against those who say Western Armenia should be returned to us Armenians.

Greeks did not exist. There were no such people that called themselves Greeks!

OK, Hellenes. What's the difference.

Sigh, such ignorance.
Greeks did not exist. There were no such people that called themselves Greeks!
The Eastern Roman Empire was Hellenized by the son of the Armenian Patrician and Exarch of North Africa, Heraclius. Greek was the lingua franca like English today, so it was easier to use Greek than Latin when not many people spoke Latin. Even less knew Armenian. Greeks as we know them today came to be after the break up of the Latin states, and even then most of their nobility traced their roots to Mamikonians, Arsacids, Kamsarakans etc.

Nationalism was created much later - during the 18th or 19th century. This means that the Anatolian natives of the Byz. empire didn't really care about the language their ancestors used to talk, or their origins, so they spoke Greek. Thus, you can't consider it a multi-ethnic empire.

For example, why do you think the so-called Macedonian dynasty was called according to the Byzantine province in which it originated, and not according to the ethnic origin of the Armenian prince who started that dynasty?

Edited by Dave, 27 August 2005 - 11:57 PM.

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13:09 27/01/2014 » SOCIETY

The Atlantic: The Ancient Ghost City of Ani

The Atlantic has published an article about the city of Ani and photos of the city. 
Situated on the eastern border of Turkey, across the Akhurian River from Armenia, lies the empty, crumbling site of the once-great metropolis of Ani, known as "the city of a thousand and one churches".   
Founded more than 1,600 years ago, Ani was situated on several trade routes, and grew to become a walled city of more than 100,000 residents by the 11th century. In the centuries that followed, Ani and the surrounding region were conquered hundreds of times -- Byzantine emperors, Ottoman Turks, Armenians, nomadic Kurds, Georgians, and Russians claimed and reclaimed the area, repeatedly attacking and chasing out residents.
By the 1300s, Ani was in steep decline, and it was completely abandoned by the 1700s. Rediscovered and romanticized in the 19th century, the city had a brief moment of fame, only to be closed off by World War I and the later events of the Armenian Genocide that left the region an empty, militarized no-man's land. The ruins crumbled at the hands of many: looters, vandals, Turks who tried to eliminate Armenian history from the area, clumsy archaeological digs, well-intentioned people who made poor attempts at restoration, and Mother Nature herself. Restrictions on travel to Ani have eased in the past decade, allowing the following photos to be taken. [27 photos]

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