Armenian Highlands

The Armenian Highlands is the central-most and highest of the three land-locked plateaus that together form the northern sector of the Middle East. It borders Anatolia in the west, Iran to the southeast, the Caucasus in the noreast, and Mesopotamia to the southwest. During the Iron Age, the region was known as Urartu, and since the 1040s, the highlands been ruled by the Turkic and Persian people. Historicky byl region obýván především Armenians, a také menšinami Assyrians, Georgians, Greeks, Jews, and Persians.