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    Mesrop Mashtots (listen; Armenian: Մեսրոպ Մաշտոց Mesrop Maštoc'; Eastern Armenian: [mɛsˈɾop maʃˈtotsʰ]; Western Armenian: [mɛsˈɾob maʃˈtotsʰ]; 362 – February...
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    The Matenadaran (Armenian: Մատենադարան), officially the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, is a museum, repository of manuscripts, and...
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    Mesrop Mashtots Monastery or St. Gr. Lusavorich Monastery was an Armenian monastery located in Nəsirvaz village (Ordubad district) of the Nakhchivan Autonomous...
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    Mesrop Mashtots Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Մեսրոպ Մաշտոց եկեղեցի) is an Armenian Apostolic church in Oshakan that contains the grave of Mesrop Mashtots,...
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    The Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots (Armenian: Սուրբ Մեսրոպ Մաշտոցի շքանշան) is awarded for significant achievements in economic development of Armenia,...
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    occasionally used to write other languages. It was developed around 405 CE by Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and ecclesiastical leader. The script originally...
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    pilgrims of the Armenian Apostolic Church as the site of the grave of Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet. During the Arsacid dynasty...
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    եչ) is the fifth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It is created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD. It has a numerical value of 5. It represents...
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    Armenian and the voiced alveolar tap (/ɾ/) Western Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of 1000. Its shape is...
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    Armenian alphabet. It has a numerical value of 800. It is created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century. In Eastern Armenian, it represents the voiceless...
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    scholars—the Georgian scripts. Koriun, a pupil of Mesrop Mashtots, in his book The Life of Mashtots, wrote about the circumstances of its creation: Then...
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    (/t͡sʰ/) in both Eastern and Western varieties of Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of 6000. Its shape in...
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    (/ʒ/) in both Eastern and Western varieties of Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of 10. Its shape is visually...
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    communities. The unique Armenian alphabet was invented in 405 AD by Mesrop Mashtots. Most Armenians adhere to the Armenian Apostolic Church, a non-Chalcedonian...
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    of Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of 40. Armenian alphabet Mesrop Mashtots X (Latin) Tʻagworean, Serovbē...
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    created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century CE. In the Armenian numeral system, it has a value of 70. Armenian alphabet Mesrop Mashtots "Transliteration...
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    writing system, the Armenian alphabet, introduced in 405 AD by Saint Mesrop Mashtots. The estimated number of Armenian speakers worldwide is between five...
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    romanized with the letter G. It was part of the alphabet created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century CE. In the Armenian numeral system, it has a value...
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    the youngest student of Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet. His sole known work is the Life of Mashtots (Vark’ Mashtots’i), a biography...
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    greatest progress came after the invention of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop Mashtots and the translation of the Bible and liturgy into Armenian in the fifth...
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    postalveolar affricate (/d͡ʒ/) in western varieties of Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of 100. Its shape is visually...
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    Catholicos of All Armenians, initiated a series of reforms with help from Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century that distinguished Armenia from its Greek and Syriac...
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    his Life of Mashtots contains many details about the evangelization of Armenia and the invention of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop Mashtots Elishe (410...
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    (symbol) is a direct projection of the Armenian alphabet – the work of Mesrop Mashtots. It is not hard to notice the clean-cut geometry of the Armenian letters...
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    Republic of Armenia in 2009. In 2012, he was awarded the Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots. In 2016, CNN called Aronian the "David Beckham of chess". Aronian...
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  • devised in 405 in the cities of Edessa and Samsat by the scholar-monk Mesrop Mashtots. As is the case with other writing systems worldwide, the graphic layout...
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    meaning "alphabet." It is one of the letters originally created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century. Its prototype is considered to be the Greek letter...
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    remembered for presiding over the creation of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop Mashtots. The name that Vramshapuh had prior to his kingship is unknown as he...
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    was one of the original letters in the Armenian alphabet created by Mesrop Mashtots in 405 AD. It is speculated to be derived from the Greek letter Beta...
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    sibilant (/s/) in both Eastern Armenian and Western Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD, it is homoglyphic to the Latin letter U. S s :...
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