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Western Armenia (Western Armenian: Արեւմտեան Հայաստան, ''Arevmdian Hayasdan'') is a term used to refer to eastern parts of Turkey (formerly the Ottoman Empire) that were part of the historical homeland of Armenians. Western Armenia, also referred to as Byzantine Armenia, emerged following the division of Greater Armenia between the Byzantine Empire (Western Armenia) and Sassanid Persia (Eastern Armenia) in 387 AD. The area, formerly known as Turkish Armenia or Ottoman Armenia, was conquered by the Ottomans in the 16th century during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1532–1555) against their Iranian Safavid arch-rivals. Being passed on from the former to the latter, Ottoman rule over the region became only decisive after the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Genocide and the Modern Age: Etiology and Case Studies of Mass Death )〕 During the 19th century, the Russian Empire conquered all of Eastern Armenia from Iran,〔Timothy C. Dowling (''Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond'' ) pp 728-729 ABC-CLIO, 2 dec. 2014 ISBN 1598849484〕 and also some parts of Turkish Armenia, such as Kars. The region's Armenian population was affected during the widespread massacres of Armenians in the 1890s. The Armenians living in their ancestral lands were exterminated or deported during the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and the following years. The over two thousand year Armenian presence in the area largely ended and the cultural heritage was mainly destroyed by the then Ottoman government. Only assimilated and crypto-Armenians live in the area today, and some irredentist Armenians claim it as part of United Armenia. The most notable political party with these views is the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. ==Etymology== In Armenian, there are several names for the region. Today, the most common is Արևմտյան Հայաստան ''Arevmtyan Hayastan'' in Eastern Armenian (mostly spoken in Armenia, Russia, Georgia, Iran) and Արեւմտեան Հայաստան ''Arevmdean Hayasdan'' in Western Armenian (spoken in the Diaspora: US, France, Lebanon, Syria, Argentina, etc.). Archaic names (used before the 1920s) include Տաճկահայաստան ''Tačkahayastan'' in Eastern and ''Daǰkahayasdan'' in Western Armenian. Also used in the same period were Թուրքահայաստան ''T'urk'ahayastan'' or Թրքահայաստան ''T'rk'ahayastan'', both meaning ''Turkish Armenia''. In Turkish, the literal translation of ''Western Armenia'' is Batı Ermenistan, but the region is referred to as Doğu Anadolu (Eastern Anatolia), one of the seven geographical regions of Turkey, despite not being part of Anatolia. The Kurds refer to the region as Bakurê Kurdistanê (Northern Kurdistan). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Western Armenia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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