What is Armenian highlands?
[[File:Mount ararat from east of dogubeyazit.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Ararat from [[Doğubeyazıt]]]] The '''Armenian Highland''' (also known as the '''Armenian Upland''' or '''Armenian Plateau''') is part of the [[Transcaucasian Highland|Anatolian plateau]] and constitutes the continuation of the [[Caucasus mountains]], also referred as [[eastern Armenia]].[[File:Map of the Caucasus mountains and Armenian highland 122308.jpg|thumb]] The [[apricot]] is native to China and spread to Europe through the Armenia Highlands. It came to be known throughout the ancient world as the Armenian fruit. Its botanical name Prunus armeniaca, derives from the [[Latin]] vernacular for apricot, armeniacum, which some scholars have linked to its [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] name ''{{Lang|akk|armanu}}''. Many scholars place the [[Proto-Indo-Europeans|Indo-European homeland]] in the Armenian Highlands and the plateau of [[Asia Minor]] to the southwest.<ref>Johannes Schmidt, Die Urheimat der Indogermanen und das europaïsche Zahlensystem, Weimar, 1890</ref><ref>Renfrew, Archaeology and Language, 159-60; Thomas V. Gamkrelidze & Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, Indoevropejskij jazyk i indoevropejtsy (Tbilisi, 1984)</ref><ref>Thomas V. Gamkrelidze & Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, “The Ancient Near East and the Indo-European Question</ref> Others believe that it was in [[Eastern Europe]] or southern [[Russia]].<ref>Igor M. Diakanov, “On the Original Home of the Speakers of Indo-European,” Journal of Indo-European Studies, vol. 13, no. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 1985) 92-174.</ref><ref>Marija Gimbutas, “Primary and Secondary Homeland of the Indo-Europeans,” Journal of Indo-European Studies, vol. 13, no. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 1985) 185-202</ref> Some scholars believe, for example, that the earliest mention of the Armenians is in the [[Akkadian]] inscriptions dating to the 28th-27th centuries BC, in which the Armenians are referred to as the sons of Haya, after the regional god of the Armenian Highlands.<ref>[[Artak Movsisyan]], Hnaguyn Petut’yunĕ Hayastanum–Aratta (Yer