The first states appeared about 6000 years ago, but not all of them managed to survive to this day. Some have disappeared without return, and some have only their names left. However, there are also those that have preserved the connection with the Old World. Armenia also refers to the latter.
As the website "Русская семерка" writes, the history of Armenian statehood is about 2,500 years old, although its origins should be sought deeper, in the kingdom of Arme-Shubria (XII century BC), which, according to the assumption of historian Boris Piotrovsky , BC In the 7th and 6th centuries, it turned into a Scythian-Armenian union. Ancient Armenia is a motley conglomeration of kingdoms and states that existed simultaneously or succeeded each other: Tabal, Melid, the Kingdom of Mush, the Hurrian, Luvian and Urartian states, the descendants of which eventually merged with the Armenian people. The term "Armenia" appears for the first time in the Behistun inscription of the Persian king Darius I (521 BC), which named the Persian satrapy in the territory of the extinct Urartu are three others for the formation of Sofeni, Little Hayk and Great Hayk. Around B.C. From the III century, the center of political and cultural life of the Armenian people moved to the Ararat Valley.
The site included 5 more countries in its list: Iran, Egypt, China, Japan, Greece.
Source: news.am
