About the platform
Armat is an independent educational project. We publish clear articles about Armenian history, writers, literary works and cultural heritage, list the works behind them so that any claim can be checked, and make them free to read for anyone, anywhere.
Who it is for
Written for four kinds of reader
The same article should work for a fourteen-year-old writing an essay and for a parent in Los Angeles reading at the kitchen table.
Students
Short, structured articles with key facts, dates and sources that can be cited in homework and presentations.
Teachers
Material organised by period and topic, written to be assigned directly or adapted into lesson plans.
Parents
Background reading that makes it easy to answer a child's question about a name, a date or a poem.
The diaspora
An entry point into Armenian culture for families outside Armenia, in a language everyone at home can read.
How we work
Editorial principles
Accuracy before ambition
Every article lists the works behind it, each with an ISBN or a permanent link, so a claim can be followed to something you can actually find in a library. Where historians disagree — and on several of these questions they genuinely do — we say so rather than choosing a side.
Plain language
Armenian history is often written in a register that keeps newcomers out. We write for a reader who has never opened a history book — without simplifying the substance.
Culture, not symbolism
The focus is on what people wrote, built and argued about. Heritage is presented as something to understand, not something to decorate.
Corrections
This is an early archive and it has contained mistakes. When one is found it is fixed in all three languages rather than quietly left in the edition nobody checked. If you find something wrong, please tell us.
Languages
The platform is published in Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian and English. Armenian is the primary edition; the Western Armenian edition is being completed article by article. The content structure is translation-first, so each article is translated rather than rewritten, and readers can switch language without losing their place.
What is next
This is an early version. The article archive will keep growing. The pictures are illustrations made for the site rather than documentary photographs, and replacing them with licensed museum material is still on the list. Suggestions and corrections from teachers are especially welcome.
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