Definitions for "Armenians"
Keywords:  kinsfolk, theresa, mariam, zamani, agra
they had come overland by way of Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet as merchants. They settled at the invitation of Emperor Akbar, who made a Queen of Mariam Zamani. She allowed her kinsfolk to build a church in Agra in 1562. Armenians became the most respected and numerous body of foreign merchants in Calcutta. They traded with China to the East, and Persia to the West, and most places in between. () Mother Theresa was an Armenian from Calcutta.
The Armenians (, Hayer) are a nation and an ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and eastern Anatolia. A large concentration of them have remained there, especially in Armenia, but many of them are also scattered elsewhere throughout the world (see Armenian diaspora). They have populated primarily eastern Anatolia and the southern Caucasus for over four thousand years.