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The name Armenia enters English via Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἀρμενία . The Armenian endonym for the Armenian people and country is hayer and hayk’ , respectively. The exact etymology of the name is unknown, and there are various speculative attempts to connect it to older toponyms or ethnonyms.
The earliest attestations of the exonym Armenia date around the 6th century BC. In his trilingual Behistun Inscription , Darius I the Great of Persia refers to Urashtu (in Babylonian ) as Armina (in Old Persian ) and Harminuya (in Elamite). In Greek , Αρμένιοι "Armenians" is attested from about the same time, perhaps the earliest reference being a fragment attributed to Hecataeus of Miletus (476 BC). Herodotus , in c. 440 BC, said "the Armenians were equipped like Phrygians , being Phrygian colonists" (7.
Armenia is Vasilis Papakonstantinou 's second album. It was somewhat a departure from his debut and a return to the more politically oriented song cycles recorded with Mikis Theodorakis and Thomas Bakalakos. Instead of interpreting the songs of a known composer, however, in this album Papakonstantinou chose to record a series of traditional songs from Armenia with a political-revolutionary content. The lyrics were freely translated and adapted to Greek by the well-known lyricist Lefteris Papadopoulos and th