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    History of the Armenians (Movses Khorenatsi) Movses Khorenatsi (c. 410–490s AD; Armenian: Մովսէս Խորենացի, pronounced [mɔvˈsɛs χɔɾɛnɑˈtsʰi]) was a prominent...
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    The Movses Khorenatsi Medal (Armenian: Մովսես Խորենացու մեդալ) is Armenia's highest cultural award. It is presented by the president of Armenia to people...
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    told in the History of Armenia attributed to the Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi and in the Primary History traditionally attributed to Sebeos. Fragments...
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    and the History of Armenia of the 5th-century Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi (died 490s AD). In the former, he is based on the Persian hyparch...
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    (Old Armenian: Պատմութիւն Հայոց, Patmut῾iwn Hayoc῾), attributed to Movses Khorenatsi, is an early account of Armenia, covering the legendary origins of...
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    and the History of Armenia of the 5th-century Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi (died 490s AD). In the Cyropaedia Orontes is unnamed, whilst in the...
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    population stands just over 37,000 based on 2016 estimates. According to Movses Khorenatsi, the area of Vagharshapat was known as Artimed (Արտիմէդ), derived...
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    of which are presented by the Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi in his History of Armenia. Movses notes that the story, which he directly quotes from...
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    Iberian-Armenian army. Artavasdes's son was then placed on the Iberian throne. Movses Khorenatsi writes that Artavasdes died having no children and was succeeded by...
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    who succeeded the latter on the throne of Assyria, according to Movses Khorenatsi. Legends narrated by Diodorus Siculus, who drew primarily from the...
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  • humanities. The law on the Movses Khorenatsi Medal has been in effect since July 26, 1993. It is named after Movses Khorenatsi. According to the September...
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  • Albania Movses Karapetyan (born 1978), Armenian wrestler Movses Khorenatsi (410–490s), Armenian historian and author of History of Armenia Movses Silikyan...
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    Armenia and the invention of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop Mashtots Movses Khorenatsi, was a prominent historian from late antiquity and the author of the...
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    Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great. The early Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi derived the name Armenia from Aramaneak, the eldest son of the legendary...
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    down as popular stories and were preserved in Armenia, as written by Movses Khorenatsi in the form of garbled legends in his 5th century book History of...
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    with Hermaphroditus and Cupid-Eros. In James R. Russell's view, Movses Khorenatsi's telling of the legend in particular is likely a version of the story...
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    tradition, probably basing it on the Pahlavi and Greek alphabets. Movses Khorenatsi (Moses of Khorene) was a prominent Armenian writer of the 5th century...
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    of Orontid Kings. According to the 5th-century Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi, Armavir was the first capital of the Kingdom of Armenia (although...
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    the Nysian god". According to the fifth-century Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi, Bardesanes of Edessa (AD 154–222), who founded the Gnostic current...
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  • from an unknown date until the late sixth century AD. According to Movses Khorenatsi, the dynasty of Aranshahik was established by the Armenian king Vagharshak...
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    Norehad. Movses Kalankatuatsi. History of Albania. Translated by L. Davlianidze-Tatishvili, Tbilisi, 1985. (in Georgian) Movses Khorenatsi. The History...
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    also recorded in history, by for instance the Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi, scholars have argued for the core of these being essentially authentic...
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    Procopius of Caesarea, as well as medieval Armenian writers such as Movses Khorenatsi, Agathangelos, Eznik of Kolb, Sebeos, and Anania Shirakatsi, as well...
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  • defeated by Fereydun. In his History of Armenia, the Armenian writer Movses Khorenatsi identified Azhdahak with the Median king Astyages (r. 564–550 BC)...
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  • history recorded by Movses Khorenatsi, was the last king of Armenia descended from the legendary Armenian progenitor Hayk. Khorenatsi writes that Vahe rebelled...
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    the son of the Parthian nobleman Anak; the later Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi identifies Anak as a member of the Parthian noble house of Suren....
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    Tiridates the Sun (Helios Tiridates) as the founder of the temple. Movses Khorenatsi incorrectly attributed the inscription to Tiridates III, but most...
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    on the place of old Armenian village called Arzni and mentioned by Movses Khorenatsi during the 19th century by Assyrian Christians who migrated to Eastern...
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  • Movses Kaghankatvatsi (Old Armenian: Մովսէս Կաղանկատուացի Movsēs Kałankatuac῾i 'Moses of Kaghankatuk'), or Movses Daskhurantsi (Մովսէս Դասխուրանցի Movsēs...
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  • believed to derive from Vahagn, god (dic) of fire and war. According to Movses Khorenatsi, the Vahevunis were ranked in the Gahnamak among the first noble houses...
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