ԴՄԻՏՐԻ ՍԱՐԳՍԵԱՆ / DMITRI SARGSYAN 
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Արցախը Ուրարտական դարաշրջանում 
Artsakh in the Urartian Era 

Bazmavep 2010 / 1 - 2, pp. 151-160

The article states that the four countries of Adakhuni, Uelikukhi (Gegharkunik), Lue­rukhi, Arkukini were situated on one shore of Lake Sevan, whereas the nineteen count­ries of the “high mountains” were situated on the other side. These countries were in­cluded in the union of the Urtekhini (according to “Geography” – Ashkharhatsuyts) tri­bal unity, as mentioned in cuneiform inscriptions.
The roots of some of the names of the nineteen countries of Urtekhini-Artsakh match the names of certain countries of the Urartian Empire. This fact confirmed the evi­dence that Urtekhini-Artsakh was linked to the Urartian territory of the Armenian High­lands.
Some of the nineteen country names of Urtekhini-Artsakh originate from the Ar­me­nian language base. This was a proof that the Urtekhini-Artsakh tribal union had Ar­me­nian origins. Therefore the Urartian countries, like Urtekhini-Artsakh situated in the area, also had Armenian origins.
According to the cuneiform inscriptions written in Persian and Elamitic, the count­ry was called Armina while in the Latin translation of the Bible it was called Armenia. Although the kings of Urartu named their country Biainili, one of them, Rusa I in his bi­lin­gual cueniform inscriptions translated it as Urartu.
In contrast, the Armenians started to name their country from the XII century B.C., when the modern or natural human (Homo sapiens) came to replace the primitive hu­mans, and instead of the above mentioned foreign names they called it Hayk or Hayastan.