''Revue des Études Arméniennes'' is a

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that publishes articles relating to Classical and

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Armenian history The history of Armenia covers the topics related to the history of the Republic of Armenia, as well as the Armenian people, the Armenian language, and the regions historically and geographically considered ''Armenian''. Armenia is located ...

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, and

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.Revue des Études Arméniennes
Peeters Online Journals. Accessed September 12, 2014. The ''Revue'' was established in 1920 at the initiative of French scholars

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and

Antoine Meillet Paul Jules Antoine Meillet (; 11 November 1866 Moulins, France – 21 September 1936 Châteaumeillant, France) was one of the most important French linguists of the early 20th century. He began his studies at the Sorbonne University, where he wa ...

. Mahé, Jean-Pierre. ''«Ռևյու դեզ էթյուդ Արմենիեն»'' evue des Études Arméniennes Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1983, vol. 9, p. 649. Meillet himself wrote many of the articles during the formative years of the journal (1920–1933), which typically covered Armenian history,

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, and folk tales, including the modern period. The ''Revue'' was not published from 1934 to 1963. In 1964, thanks to the efforts of the Paris-based Armenian scholar Haïg Berbérian (1887–1978), the journal was revived. Berbérian was able to secure the financial backing of the

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for the journal's publication, and the first volume of the "Nouvelle série" appeared under his editorship in 1964. However, the publication of articles on the modern period of Armenian history was abandoned, and the journal has since limited its scope from ancient to early modern period history (that is, until roughly the eighteenth century). Up until 1933, articles were published in French, but when publication resumed articles were also published in English and German.Manuscripts submitted in other languages, such as Spanish, are also now accepted. The journal uses the Hübschmann-Meillet-Benveniste system in the transcription of Armenian words into Latin characters. In addition to scholarly articles, it also publishes

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s. The former editors of the journal during the new series were

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(nominally, 1964-1975, as Berbérian was responsible for much of the editing during this time),

Georges Dumézil Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil (4 March 189811 October 1986) was a French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology. He was a professor at Istanbul University, École pratique d ...

(1975-1980), and Sirarpie Der-Nersessian (1981–1989). Its current editor is Aram Mardirossian.

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