На перших порах в Західній Вірменії та Східній Вірменії, була збережена номінальна влада вірменських царів, але вже в 428 році вона була скасована, і останній представник династії вірменських Аршакідів— Арташес IV, був позбавлений трону. З цього періоду Східну Вірменію також називали «Перс-Вірменією» і стала перським марзпанством[28].
II розділ Вірменії
У 591 році Вірменія знову була розділена[29][30][31][32]. Велика частина вірменських земель в складі держави Сасанідів була завойована Візантією в ході ірано-візантійської війни 571 -591рр.[27] .
Арабське панування
В середині VII століття Східна Вірменія потрапила під панування Арабського халіфату. Пізніше, в 639 році до халіфату були приєднані землі Західної Вірменії.
Н.Г. Волкова. «Этнические процессы в Закавказье в XIX—XX веках», Кавказский Этнографический сборник, IV часть, Институт Этнографии им. Н.Н.Миклухо-Маклая АН СССР, Москва, Наука, 1969, стр. 23:
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Восточная Армения — Араратская долина с прилегающими к ней горными областями Малого Кавказа (Лори, Иджеван, Зангезур и др.) — была центром формирования армянской нации.
Michael P. Croissant. The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict: causes and implications, p. 9:
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«At the time, much of the focus was on the heartland of Turkish Armenia, but two regions in Transcaucasian Armenia also stirred significant irredentist feelings: Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhichevan—both of which were attached to Azerbaijan under the imperial Russian system of administration.»
With the exception of the period of Arabic influence over Armenia during the Caliphate (7th-9th centuries A.D.), this Persian power extended from the time Darius the Great until the early 19th century, when the Russian Empire took over the control of Caucasian Armenia and, increasingly under the Soviet period ….
James Stuart Olson. An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires.— Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994.— С.40.:
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In present-day terms, historic Armenia comprised a large parts of eastern Turkey, the northeastern corner of Iran, parts of the Azerbaijan and Georgian republics, as well as the entire territory of the Armenian Republic. It was defined by a number of natural boundaries: the Kura River, separating the Armenian highlands from Caspian and Georgian lowlands in the east and northeast; the Taurus-Zagros chains, connecting to the Iranian Plateau and separating Armenia from Kurdistan and Iran in the south and southwest, and Euphrates River, marking and western boundary of historic Armenia
Thomas M. Leonard. Encyclopedia of the developing world, Volume 1,p 87:
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Historic or Greater Armenia includes not only the Republic of Armenia but also a small area in northeastern Iran, most of the eastern part of Turkey, and secitions of the present republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia
В.А.Гадло / mer.info/bibliotek_Buks/Culture/gadlo/08.php Армяне[недоступне посиланняз Июнь 2018] /Народы Закавказья/ «Этнография народов Средней Азии и Закавказья: традиционная культура» Изд-во Санкт-Петербургского университета, 1998г.— Стр.64-73 (94) ISBN 5288021619, 9785288021619
G. Boumoutian, раздел «Eastern Armenia from the 17th Century to the Russian Annexation» из «The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Volume II» под редакцией Richard G. Hovannisian. Стр. 81—82:
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At the start of the sixteenth century, Armenia became the center of conflict between the Ottoman sultans and the Safavid shahs of Persia. After continuous warfare between the two empires, a compromise was finally leached by the Treaty of Zuhab in 1639. Under this agreement, the Ottomans recognized almost all of Transcaucasia as being part of Persia. The plain of Shuragial and the Arpachai River became a sort of boundary; Armenian lands east of that zone were considered part of Persia, and all lands west of it fell into the Ottoman sphere. The terms "Eastern" or "Persian" Armenia and 'Turkish" or "Western" Armenia were soon coined by contemporary travelers, geographers, and historians. For the next eight decades Eastern Armenia remained under the control of the Safavids, who divided it into two administrative units: Chukhur-i Sa'ad, or the territory of Erevan and Nakhichevan; and Karabagh, formed from the combined regions of Karabagh, Zangezur (Siunik) and Ganja.
«Hence by the second haf of the eighteenth century, Eastern Armena was composed of four khanates: Erevan, Nakhichevan (which included a number of settlements south of Araxes River), Karabakh (which included Zangezur), and Ganja.»
Michael P. Croissant, The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict: causes and implications, p.11:
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Importantly, disunion amongst the five princes allowed the establishment of a foothold in mountainous Karabakh by a Turkic tribe around 1750. This event marked the first time that Turks were able to penetrate the eastern Armenian highlands…»
After repeated rebellions, independence, and reconquest, the last of the Armenian kingdom was conquered by the Arab Mamelukes in 1375. The only reamaining autonomous pockets of Armenian were in Karabakh and Zangezour, bothe in eastern Armenia
Анания Ширакаци. АРМЯНСКАЯ ГЕОГРАФИЯ VII ВЕКА ПО Р. Х. (приписывавшаяся Моисею Хоренскому). Пер. с др.-арм. и коммент. К.П.Патканова. Вступит. ст. К.П.Патканова = Աշխարհացույց. VII վ.— СПб: Типография Императорской Академии Наук, 1877.
Иран вынужден был заключить с Византией договор о дружбе и уступить ей часть Картли до Тбилиси и часть Восточной Армении до озера Ван. На освобождённой от персов части Картли утвердился местный князь. В Албании в конце VI в. возродилась местная государственность во главе с наследственным князем. В оставшихся под властью Ирана частях Картли и Армении иранское правительство также должно было пойти на значительные уступки местной знати. Но положение крестьянства оставалось по-прежнему тяжёлым. После победы Византии над сасанидским Ираном (628 г.) его владычество в странах Закавказья фактически пало, хотя и власть Византии являлась там лишь номинальной.
After the Byzantine-Persian partition of Armenia in A.D. 591, the emperor Maurice organized his newly acquired territories in east central Armenia into a Byzantine province, which, probably from its elevation relative to the rest of Armenia, was designated Lower Armenia (Armenia Inferior).
Nine of these territories were lost in 387, most of them forever; there others — Vaspurakan, Turuberan, and Tayk — emerged only after the Byzantine-Persian partition of Armenia in 591, when the districts of which they were comprised passed under Byzantine control»
During the almost 250 years of Arab rule in Armenia (7th-9th cents.), the Bagratids gradually assumed the paramount position among the surviving Armenian princes and ca. 884 were able to establish a new monarchy in central Armenia which included all of Lower Armenia and considerably more territory in eastern Armenia as well.
George A. Bournoutian. Eastern Armenia in the last decades of Persian rule, 1807—1828: a political and socioeconomic study of the khanate of Erevan on the eve of the Russian conquest, Undena Publications, 1982
George A. Bournoutian . Eastern Armenia in the last decades of Persian rule , 1807—1828: a political and socioeconomic study of the khanate of Erevan on the eve of the Russian conquest, Undena Publications, 1982
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