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Orography of the Armenian Highland and the Caucasus.

The Armenian Highland (Template:Lang-hy; Russian Armyanskoye Nagorye; also known as the Armenian Upland or Armenian Plateau) is a plateau of Transcaucasia, connecting the Lesser Caucasus with the Taurus Mountains.

Geography

Its total area is about 400,000 km². Geologically recent volcanism on the area has resulted in large volcanic formations and a series of massifs and tectonic movement has formed the three largest lakes in the Highland, Lake Sevan, Lake Van and Lake Urmia.

Most of the Armenian Highland is in Turkey's Eastern Anatolia Region (Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi), and also includes northwestern Iran, all of Armenia, southern Georgia and western Azerbaijan. Its eastern parts are also known as the Transcaucasian highland (Zakavkazkoye nagorye).

Name

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The Armenian Plateau has been called the "epicenter of the Iron Age", since it appears to be the location of the first appearance of Iron Age metallurgy in the late 2nd millennium BC.

The apricot, a native to China, spread to Europe through the Armenia Highlands. It came to be known throughout the ancient world as the Armenian fruit, and its botanical name Prunus armeniaca ("the Armenian plum"), derives from the Latin vernacular for apricot, Armeniacum.

In the 1980s, the ministry of education in Turkey ordered that names that could be conceived as reminiscent of pre-Turkic peoples of Anatolia like "Armenian highland" (Armenians) and "Pontic range" (Pontic Greeks) be effaced in atlases in Turkish schools. The official term of the plateau in Turkish usage is "Eastern Anatolian Highland."

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External links

Notes

  1. "Armenian Highland." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia
  2. Emerald Network Pilot Project in Armenia, Council of Europe
  3. Clifford Embleton. Geomorphology of Europe. 1984, p. 393.
  4. Leslie Aitcheson, A History of Metals, vol. I, II, 1960
  5. David M. Lang, Armenia: Cradle of Civilization (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1970) 50-1, 58-59.
  6. Hovick Nersessian, «Highlands of Armenia», Los Angeles, 1998, Mr. Nersessian is in the New York Academy of Sciences
  7. Hewsen, Robert H. "The Geography of Armenia" in The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Volume I, The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century. Richard G. Hovannisian (Ed.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997, p. 14, ISBN 0-312-10169-4.
  8. Hovannisian, Richard G. "The Etiology and Sequelae of the Armenian Genocide" in Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions. George J. Andreopoulos (ed.) University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, p. 127.

Further reading

  • Hewsen, Robert H. "The Geography of Armenia" in The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Volume I, The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century. Richard G. Hovannisian (Ed.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997, pp. 1-18, ISBN 0-312-10169-4.

39°17′1″N 43°22′19″E / 39.28361°N 43.37194°E / 39.28361; 43.37194

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