. The Turk and the land of Haig; or, Turkey and Armenia: descriptive, historical, and picturesque . worthy of note that through amultitude of fortunes of war, conflicting armies, incur-sions, and national calamities far beyond those offormer years, our fathers through faith in Christ haveremained a national unit. It should not be supposedthat during the interval between the Haigazian andArsacid dynasties our people were in utter servitude,as they are to-day under Turkish despotism. Ourcountry was simply in a state of ignominious vassalageunder governors of the Macedonian Empire ; for wefind in
. The Turk and the land of Haig; or, Turkey and Armenia: descriptive, historical, and picturesque . worthy of note that through amultitude of fortunes of war, conflicting armies, incur-sions, and national calamities far beyond those offormer years, our fathers through faith in Christ haveremained a national unit. It should not be supposedthat during the interval between the Haigazian andArsacid dynasties our people were in utter servitude,as they are to-day under Turkish despotism. Ourcountry was simply in a state of ignominious vassalageunder governors of the Macedonian Empire ; for wefind in 317 b. c, after the death of Alexander, Armenia,under the leadership of Ardvates, struck a blow forfreedom, and thus regained her independence. Upon his death, after thirty-three years of greatprosperity, Ardvates left no competent successor toresist foreign aggressions. Thus Armenia submittedto the Seleucus of Syria, who reduced the country toa tributary state. For a hundred years in vain theArmenians revolted and struggled under the firm graspof Syrian satraps. About 210 b. c. Antiochus the. LEGENDARY HEROES OF ARMENIA. 44 THE TURK AND THE LAND OF HAIG. Great divided the country into Eastern and WesternArmenia, or Armenia Major and Lesser Armenia—the former east of the river Euphrates and the latterwest of it. Having thus divided the country heappointed a separate governor over each. But nosooner had Antiochus sustained a crushing defeat bythe Romans than Artaxias proclaimed Armenia Majorindependent, and offered it as an asylum to Hannibal,the greatest strategist of all times, who had sworn tohis father, when a boy of twelve years, eternal enmityto Rome, and for forty years had kept the field againstthe imperial eagles. It must have required courageof the highest order in Artaxias to harbor the greatestenemy of Rome at his court. Lesser Armenia soonfollowed the example of the Greater and successfullyrevolted under Zadriades, whose descendants kept thethrone for nearly a hu
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