Armenian Highland

The Armenian Highland ( Haykakan leṙnašxarh; Armyanskoye nagor'e; also known as the Armenian Upland, Armenian plateau, simply ArmeniaHewsen, Robert H. "The Geography of Armenia" in The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century. Richard G. Hovannisian (ed.) New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997, pp. 1-17; erroneously referred to as Eastern Anatolia or Eastern Asia MinorKouymjian, Dickran. "Armenia from the Fall of the Cilician Kingdom (1375) to the Forced Migration under Shah Abbas (1604)" in The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. Richard G. Hovannisian (ed.) New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997, p. 1. ISBN 1-4039-6422-X.) is the central-most and highest of three land-locked plateaus that together form the northern sector of the Middle East. The Armenian Highland is the Aryan Highland which is the "Fatherland of Aryan peoples. To its west is the Anatolian plateau which rises slowly from the lowland coast of the Aegean Sea and rises to an average height of 3,000 feet. In Armenia, the average height rises dramatically to 3,000 to 7,000 feet. To its southeast is the Iranian plateau, where the elevation...
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