Արամ երկիրը2025-10-022025-10-021997Մովսիսեան, Ա., «Արամ երկիրը», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 1997, Պէյրութ, էջ 69-80https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/765According to Moses of Khoren, the Father of Armenian History, Aram, the first mentioned Armenian patriarch, unified all the lands of Haik's inheritors and founded the first united Armenia: this is why foreigners called the new country Armenia, after his name. Whatever the fact, Assyrian, Babylonian, Urartian, Sumerian, Akkadian and Mari inscriptions mention Am, Aram, Arame, Umanum, Armarili and Aramali, which in the long run of analysis amount to the same meaning — Armenia, and when located on land, all come to occupy almost the same region between the lakes of Urmya and Van and directly correspond to that Armenian area which was later to be known as Vaspourakan. A meticulous analysis of the Assyro-Babylonian, as well as of the Urartian and other inscriptions found and unearthed from various places trampled by the imperial victorious armies of the past reveal the congruancy of this region to that of Van, later Vaspourakan, which was the Royal Hereditary Domain of the Arzrunis of Armenian history, In fact, Vaspourakan being a derivation of "vaspour", a Parthean word meaning "noble", indicates that particular region of land which, according to various inscriptions and the information handed to the latest generations by Thovma Arzruni, the historian of the Arzruni Dynasty of the Armenian rulers, was the Royal Inheritance and Domain, that is the Hayrakan Toon, the Paternal Home, which means "hereditary domain." After making a minute use of different inscriptions and informations, the author finds that the country called Aram/Arame is to be located to the north of the land between Greater and Lesser Zabs, the two tributaries of the Tigris river, on the west of the lake of Urmya, and on the east and southeast of the lake of Van, while that which is called Aramali/Aramarili is to be located between the lakes of Urmya and Van having the Korduk mountains (now Hekiari) to the south. A closer look at the topographic maps of these two separately named yet belonging to the same area will prove the identity of the two regions, though called by different names in the various inscriptions of Naram-Sin, Sargon I and Sargon II, Salmanessar IlI, Asumazirbal, Rusa, Menua, and in a host of Sumerian, Mari and Eblayan inscriptions, thus irrefutably proving that countries called Aram, Arame, Am, Armani, Aramali, Aramarili, Armanum, Umanum and Mana (=Minni) are the same and one, historically are the appelations of the same region given by different peoples for Aram-Urartu, and hence show the continuous existence of the Armenian people on the same spot with the same hereditary land and occupying a non-broken line of history from the distant past to the present day.