Greater Armenia

Greater Armenia may refer to:

  • Ancient Armenia, independent from 331 BC to 428 АD, known as Greater Armenia (or "Armenia Major") to distinguish it from Roman-controlled Lesser Armenia (or "Armenia Minor")
  • Western Armenia, a term coined following the division of Greater Armenia between the Byzantine Empire (Western Armenia, Armenia Major) and Persia (Eastern Armenia, Persarmenia) in 387
  • Medieval Armenia, called Greater Armenia to distinguish it from "Little Armenia" (the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia)
  • Greater Armenia (political concept), a political goal of Armenian irredentists

Famous quotes containing the word greater:

    “Order is Heaven’s first law; and this confessed,
    Some are, and must be, greater than the rest,
    More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence
    That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
    Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
    Bliss is the same in subject or in king.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)