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Eastern Armenia

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Eastern Armenia (Armenian: Արևելյան Հայաստան Arevelyan Hayastan) comprises the eastern part of the Armenian highlands, the traditional homeland of the Armenian people. Between the 4th and the 20th centuries, Armenia was partitioned several times, and the terms Eastern and Western Armenia have been used to refer to its respective parts under foreign occupation or control, although there has not been a defined line between the two.[1] The term has been used to refer to:

References

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  1. ^ a b Adalian, Rouben Paul (2010). Historical Dictionary of Armenia. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. pp. 336–337. ISBN 978-0-8108-7450-3.
  2. ^ Hacikyan, Agop Jack; Basmajian, Gabriel; Franchuk, Edward S.; Ouzounian, Nourhan (2000). The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the Oral Tradition to the Golden Age. Vol. 1. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-8143-2815-6.

Further reading

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Riegg, Stephen Badalyan. Russia's Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801-1914 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020). ISBN 9781501750113.

Suny, Ronald Grigor. Looking toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993). ISBN 9780253207739.