Armens

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Helmet of an Arman warrior with stylized horns.

Armens, located in the Armenian Highland, the people are usually referred to as Arman, Armenic. They correspond with the Hayasa-Azzi Tribes. The Armans united with the tribes of Hayasi. Recent linguistic studies present strong evidence that the Indo-European language group originates in Anatolia. ^[1] According to most accounts, the Armens were generally tall, blond-haired, and blue-eyed in appearance, in contrast to their Urartian cousins who tended to be slighter with black hair and black eyes. ^[2]Thousands of years later, in the first century AD, another Armenian leader, bearing the name of his kinsmen, to the Romans and Germans, 30,000 Armenian horsemen in Bavaria against the Romans annihilating three legions of about 20,000 men under the Roman general Publius Quinctilius Varus.

Arman warriors during Urartu(Ararat)

[edit] Haik

Haik, thought by some scholars to be a mythical Indo-European folk hero, is most probably one of the early leaders who was an Armenic king and was later deified as the supreme embodiment of the virtuous character of the hero king. One of the greatest heroic Epics of the Armenian people is the great Cosmic Epic of Hayk the Forefather and establisher of the first Armenian Kingdom of Armania in third millennium BC. The Epic was written down by Movses Xorēnac‛i the father of Armenian History. Xorēnac‛i, wrote down the epic in his History of Armenia in the fifth century, from the oral tradition of the ancient troubadours. The epic story tells us of Haik, the leader of the nation of Armens (Armans or Armins) the original Indo-European Homeland, in the Highlands of Armenia. The warrior king organizes the Armens against the invading forces of the tyrant Bel of Babylon attacking from south, from Mesopotamia into the highlands of Ararat.