Armenian Renaissance

In this time when Europe was "being flooded with the light of New learning" Armenia was in the darkest age of its history.

[3] During the second half of the eleventh century certain "Turanian" tribes appeared on the horizon of western Asia.

[6] The Kingdom of Lesser Armenia, which made notable progress regeneration in Cilicia, did not fare much better at the hands of the Mamelukes of Egypt.

[7] After the collapse of the last dynasty in Major Armenia in 1064, a large number of Armenians moved to Poland.

An attempt is made in the following sketch to point out that the Renaissance in Armenia was strikingly similar to that in Europe.