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The Battle of Avarayr: Faith and Fire in Fifth-Century Armenia
In 451 CE, on the plains of Avarayr in Persarmenia, a small Armenian army, outnumbered and outmatched, stood against the might of the Sassanid Persian Empire. Their commander, Vartan Mamikonian, led them not for territory or treasure, but for the right to remain Christian — the right to read their scriptures in Mesrop Mashtots' newly created Armenian alphabet, to baptize their children in the name of Christ. This episode explores the events leading to that desperate battle: the Sassanid shah Yazdegerd II's edict forcing Zoroastrianism on the Armenian nobility, the cryptic letters…
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