PRINTED AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY form p-5 liv-2-19 14C] THE Bulletin is published monthly by The New York Public Library at 476 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Subscription One Dollar a year, current single numbers Ten Cents. Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter, February 10, 1897, under Act of July 16, 1894. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized. Printed at The New York Public Library, 476 Fifth Avenue. March 1919, Volume 23, Number 3 THE PROPOSED AUTONOMOUS ARMENIA (The heavily dotted line indicates the possible boundaries of an autonomous Armenia) NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS VOLUME 23 MARCH 1919 NUMBER 3 ARMENIA AND THE ARMENIANS A LIST OF REFERENCES IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY PREFATORY NOTE BY RICHARD GOTTHEIL, PH.D. Chief of the Oriental Division NEW people have been the subject of so much pity and commiseration as FEW have the Armenians. And few have deserved such pity as fully as have they. A remarkable race, they have had an uncommon history. They have always written and spoken an Indo-European language, one that belongs to that large number of which the Sanskrit is an early and prominent representative. According to their traditions, they are also of Indo-European race; though evidently intermixed with Semitic and other blood. Historically, they come to our notice at first in ancient Phrygia; and, peculiarly enough, seem to have reversed the general order and to have travelled towards the rising sun instead of towards the west. The Empire of the Hittites was breaking up, and the Armenians appear to have settled in the upper reaches of the Euphrates, to have extended their quarters into the region of Lakes Van and Urmia and to have made their home around Mt. Ararat. Unfortunately, the Armenians were never able to hold out long as an independent kingdom. In antiquity the greater Powers of Greece, of Seleucid Syria, of Persia and of Rome were at hand, ready to prevent the assertion of any rights that might controvert their own. At one time, it is true, that which historians call Armenia Major and Armenia Minor- the Caucasus regions south of the mountains and north of Mesopotamia were ruled by independent kings, especially under Tigranes II, termed the Great (94--56 B. C.), who extended his power to take [ 123 ] |