ARMENIA and IRAN i. Armina, Achaemenid Province Armina is named
as a province (satrapy) of the Achaemenid empire; the
inhabitants are called Arminiya- “Armenian.” As a by-form of the
country’s name, the form Arminiya-, is attested six times in DB
2.33-63, but only in the locative form Arminiyaiy (on this word
see R. Schmitt, Acta Antiqua 25, 1977, p. 96 n. 16). Armina is
the source of Greek Arménioi “Armenians,” Armeníē, Armeníā
[scil. Khṓrā] “Armenia;” it is rendered phonetically in Elamite
as Har-mi-nu-ya (-ip), etc. The inscriptions’ Babylonian
versions, however, use KURú-ra-áš-ṭu “Urartu” and LUú-ra-áš-ṭa-
a-a “Urartean,” i.e., the name of the kingdom (and its
inhabitants), mighty in former times in nearly the same region;
the old name was preserved by the indigenous pre-Achaemenid
cuneiform tradition. The Armenians’ name for themselves,
attested from the 5th century A.D., is Hay, plural Haykʿ, with
Hayastan “Armenia” and other derivatives. The references to
Armina in the Bīsotūn inscription (DB) from abou