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What is this? What character encoding should I use...I'm using Mozilla Firefox and I tried Armenian, Unicode, Japanese and Western. Any sugestions? Is it a translator?

Dave and Accelerated, the webmaster of this website http://www.angelfire.com/hi/Azgaser/ had written an article years ago about the Armenian origin of the two wheeled, standing platform war chariot pulled by one or two horses. This unit has a name, but I don't recall what it is. Anyway, from what I remember of the article, this effective and highly mobile military unit had Armenian or proto-Armenian origins. If you email him I"m sure he may be able to give you more information on his sources. In fact I'm sure I have a copy of that article somewhere--meaning I'd have to do a lot of digging to find it. So if you can't get any info from him, let me know and I'll try to find it. Obviously, other similar chariots existed previous to this one, but I belive there was some specific innovation, which markedly increased its effectiveness, that was traced to Armenian origin. This is just some picture I found on the Internet, But I believe it looked something like this:

You know who spoke Japanese...Monte Melkonian.

Like I stated earlier..."But of course, they would not count as "invasion" dates, they are simply the dates for these offensive actions taken by the great liberating forces of Artsakh." So no, they do not constitute dates of "invasion" but they may be what the guy was referring to. What's my "PM"?

You may no longer be involved in this conversation but if you are, this might help. If you are looking for dates of the Kelbejar and Aghdam offensives during the war of liberation, then you can check out "My Brother's Road" by Markar Melkonian about his great brother Monte Melkonian. These dates are listed in the book. But of course, they would not count as "invasion" dates, they are simply the dates for these offensive actions taken by the great liberating forces of Artsakh. ISBN is 1850436355 BTW, could you link your conversation? I'd like to have a look at it. Oh and also, I highly recommend this book. I found it breathtaking.

Wow, I'm glad I mentioned this book. Looks like everyone's interested. By the way, I also took a look at the NKR website today, I saw a link to it somewhere in one of these posts, but don't remember what string. There is some good historical info it seems, but I haven't had a chnce to read through it yet. http://www.nkr.am/eng/ check it out... I also found a map of Greater Armenia which outlines the separate provinces. But unfortunately it doesn't have much other info. Just go to www.google.com and do an image search for "paytakaran"

I forgot to mention the ISBN - 1 85649 287 7 Hb 1 85649 288 5 Pb I don't know why it has two ISBNs perhaps one of them is for the French version.

Artsakhtsi chem, but I can recommend a book "The Caucasian Knot: The History and Geo-Politics of Nagorno-Karabagh", which covers some of the history of Artsakh. It has appeared in French and English, I haven't seen the French version but the English version has an extra Introduction, so I would recommend that version. It does a good job with the history that t covers although it does not go into too much depth. The Authors are Levon Chorbajian, Patrick Donabedian & Claude Mutafian and its from the much respected, hard to find "Politics in Contemporary Asia" Series by Zed Books. As far as Paytakaran, I am also looking for some good English language work on this, so if you find any please let me know.