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CONTENTS

ARTICLES

VAHE SARGSYAN
C. F. LEHMANN-HAUPT’S STUDIES ON ASSYRIAN INSCRIPTIONS OF THE ARMENIAN HIGHLAND ............................................................................13

GOR MARGARYAN
THE PHENOMENON ŠILTĀQĀT AND ITS REFLECTIONS IN THE ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MILIEU....................................................................22
SHAHBAN KHAPIZOV, MAGOMED SHEYKHMAGOMEDOV
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MILITARY ESTATE (PAZHILAL) IN THE AVAR NUTSALDOM ON THE BASIS OF MEDIEVAL WRITTEN SOURCES AND ORAL TRADITION......................................................................................31

DAVID MERKVILADZE
MILITARY-POLITICAL CONFRONTATIONS IN THE KHANATES OF THE SOUTH CAUCASUS IN 1768-1774 AND EREKLE II................................42

NELLI MINASYAN
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON YUSUF AKÇURA AND HIS ARTICLE “THREE WAYS OF POLICY” .............................................................................53

MYASNIK ESOYAN
THE COVERAGE OF SITUATION OF WESTERN ARMENIANS AND CILICIAN ARMENIAN’S MASSACRE IN 1909 IN THE PAGES OF EGYPTIAN ARMENIAN PERIODICAL “ARSHALOYS” ................................66

OKSANA ERMOLAEVA
EARLY SOVIET ECONOMIC BORDER CONTROLS: EAST- WEST DIMENSION...........................................................................................................75

ARMEN ISRAYELYAN
THE WATER ISSUE IN IRAN-AFGHANISTAN RELATIONS...........................88

ORAZIO MARIA GNERRE
IN THE FLOW OF HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: A THEORICAL PROFILE OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA ..................................106

HASMIK HMAYAKYAN
THE WORD GAT‘A IN THE ARMENIAN LANGUAGE ..................................120

HAKOB AVCHYAN
ENCLITIC PRONOUNS IN THE ANBARĀNI DIALECT OF TALYSHI ........129

TEREZA AMRYAN
ON SOME TRANSFORMING ELEMENTS OF TRADITIONAL YEZIDI WEDDINGS PERFORMED IN ARMENIA........................................................136

ANI AVETISYAN
MS № 1467 OF ARABIC SCRIPT MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION OF THE MATENADARAN AS A NEWFOUND EXAMPLE OF THE "COLLECTION OF VERSE DICTIONARIES" .......................................................................147

REPORTS
ZHALGAS ADILBAYEV
KAZAKHSTAN-MONGOLIA: 30 YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC COOPERATION...................................................................................................168

SCIENTIFIC LIFE

GOHAR ISKANDARYAN
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: “ARMENIA-IRAN. HISTORICAL PAST AND PRESENT”...............................................................178