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Definition of Hayastan

1. Noun. A landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet; modern Armenia is but a fragment of ancient Armenia which was one of the world's oldest civilizations; throughout 2500 years the Armenian people have been invaded and oppressed by their neighbors.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hayastan

Literary usage of Hayastan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Indo- called this new element Armenians, Germanic whereas the people call themselves Immigra- Hayk, (plural of Hay) and their tion. The country hayastan ..."

2. Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians by Ohan Gaidzakian (1898)
"In their native tongue they speak of their people as "Haik," and of Armenia as "hayastan," derived from that great ancestor and patriarch who formed their ..."

3. Travel and Politics in Armenia by Noel Noel-Buxton Noel-Buxton, Harold Jocelyn Buxton, Aram Raffi (1914)
"On the other hand their own name for themselves is ' Hai' and for their country ' hayastan,' being the eponym founded on ' Haik,' son of ..."

4. Human Rights Watch World Report 1997 by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch Staff (1996)
"... the Union of Constitutional Rights (a nationalist party), and Artsakh- hayastan (an organization for the promotion of Karabakh issues). ..."

5. Studia Biblica Et Ecclesiastica: Essays in Biblical and Patristic Criticism by University of Oxford (1903)
"But some said what was true, that, the great God who smote the king of the Armenians, and afterwards healed him along with all hayastan (ie Armenia), ..."

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