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Ancestry Traced to Scriptural Progenitor--Traditional Origin of Name--The First Battle for Liberty--Early Kings--Testimony from Cuneiform Inscriptions--Relation to Contemporaneous Nations--Babylonia--Assyria--The Medo-Persian Empire--Macedonia--Parthia--Names and Derivations--Tigranes the Great--Roman Ascendancy--Armenians Continued Struggle for Independence--The First Christian Prince.