(southern tip is where Sisian and Syunik Pr is located)CAPTION
“near the town of Sisian in the Syunik Province”, the country resembles a piece of paper that’s been rumpled into a ball and allowed to try to flatten itself back out.
http://www.google.com/search?q=map+of+armenia
The name *may* come from the much earlier Hurrians/Khar/Carians.
[snip] The ancient Greek historians Herodotus and Eudoxus of Rhodes related the Armenians to the Phrygians — who entered Asia Minor from Thrace [/snip] [url omitted]
[snip] Armenian is an Indo-European language [/snip] [url omitted]
[snip] Geneticists have scanned the genomes of 173 Armenians from Armenia and Lebanon and compared them with those of 78 other populations from around the world. They found that the Armenians are a mix of ancient populations whose descendants now live in Sardinia, Central Asia and several other regions... Armenians share 29 percent of their DNA ancestry with Otzi, a man whose 5,300-year-old mummy emerged in 1991 from a melting Alpine glacier. Other genetically isolated populations of the Near East, like Cypriots, Sephardic Jews and Lebanese Christians, also share a lot of ancestry with the Iceman, whereas other Near Easterners, like Turks, Syrians and Palestinians [sic], share less. [/snip] [ http://www.armeniapedia.org/wiki/Origin_Of_Armenians ]
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(southern tip is where Sisian and Syunik Pr is located)CAPTION
