Quote Originally Posted by artavazd View Post
Jolt you are mostly Correct, But I would LIke to emphasize that lumping Armenian with Persian togather is not correct. Armenians and Iranians are not part of the same ethnic group that is wrong. The Armenian people are the coming togather of native Caucasian tribes (the tribes of Urartu) and The indo-european speaking Armen tribes who were related to the Phrygians. Ethnicaly Armenians are mostly related to other people of the Caucasus (Georgians, Chechens, Ossetians) Armenians were not replaced by a diffrent ethnicity. What went on in Armenia during the Median invasion, was a transformation of power from the Caucasian/HUrrian speaking ruling class to the Indo-european speaking ruling class (the Armen tribes) THus the coming togather of these tribes formed the Armenian nation.

Recent DNA studies have shown, that Armenians, Georgians, Ossetians, Chechens and other people of the Caucasus are the closest togather (with the exception of Azerbaijan which has significant Central Asian DNA a result of turkification of the area)
Right, right. Thus why I said Culture, since I didn't mean the replacement of Armenia ethnical group, rather the cultural group. But I suppose that may have been misundertood, as I was mostly speaking about ethnicities in the comment.