Quote Originally Posted by artavazd
Yes Ario. I Know that we Armenians and the Ancient Iranians ( about 30% of modern Iran) share commonalites. We are as you mentioned Er root word for Aryan. ( please people do not start talking about hitler has nothing to do with ww2 germany)

If we look back further we stem from one culture along side the Greeks and even Celts and Germans.
if you look back we, the Armenians, partially stem from people of ancient kingdom of Ararat - Urartu, sometimes referred to as Khaldians (or Haldians) after their supreme god - Khaldi (Haldi). other part of our identity comes from Phrygian stock, who initially settled on western borders of Urartu, later called Armenian Minor. also Hurrian kingdom of Hayasa that was included in the Urartian hegemony.
Tigran extended the borders of our country up to the edge of our habitation places in antiguity.
Movses Khorenatsi, Book I.24
for those who is interested, besides Chahin's "Kingdom of Armenia" i also recommend 2 volumes of Gabriel Soultanian's "The pre-history of the Armenians".