Greater Armenia

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In the history of Armenia, Greater Armenia was the name given to the greater eastern part of Armenia (Armenia maior), which in ancient times extended from the heartland of Armenia to the Caspian Sea . In addition to Greater Armenia to the west of the upper existed Euphrates located Lesser Armenia . At times, as long as the Sophene formed its own state, the designation Greater Armenia was even narrower, namely to exclude the Sophene.

The term Greater Armenia is also used in relation to the Middle Ages, whereby Lesser Armenia then means the High Medieval Kingdom of Armenia in Cilicia , which was located south of ancient Lesser Armenia.

In the Middle Ages, the name Armenia Magna , which can also be translated as Greater Armenia, or Armenia Maritima were used to designate areas in the Crimea after the Armenians who settled there in large numbers after the end of the medieval empire of the Bagratids .

  • Ancient Greater Armenia at the time of Tigranes'

  • Medieval Greater Armenia under the Bagratids

  • Greater Armenia and Lesser Armenia

The term is also used as a catchphrase for a political concept from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, for example in relation to the “expansionism” of the Russian tsarist empire and the Treaty of Sèvres or Armenian nationalism.

  • Spread of the Armenians before the Armenian massacres in 1894/96

  • Greater Armenia (1919 concept) including Lesser Armenia

  • Western border of Greater Armenia according to Wilson (1920)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Omeljan Pritsak : The Kipchak. In: Philologiae Turcicae Fundamenta. Volume 1, Wiesbaden 1959, p. 51.
  2. ^ A b Lutz Raphael : Imperial violence and the mobilized nation: Europe 1914-1945. CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-62352-3 , p. 48.
  3. ↑ Michael Schwartz : Ethnic "cleansing" in the modern age. Global interactions between nationalist and racist politics of violence in the 19th and 20th centuries. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-70425-9 . P. 96.
  4. ↑ a b Wolfgang Gieler, Christian Johannes Henrich (ed.): Politics and Society in Turkey. In the tension between past and present. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17249-1 , p. 55.