Patma-Banasirakan Handes

Infobox Journal
title = Patma-Banasirakan Handes
Historical-Philological Journal
abbreviation = "PBH"
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editor = Vardkes Mikayelyan [ [http://elib.sci.am/ About] . National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Accessed October 4, 2008.]
discipline = Armenian studies, Byzantine studies, Near Eastern studies
language = Armenian, Russian, English (abstracts)
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publisher = AAS
country = Armenia
frequency = Quarterly
history = 1958 to present
ISSN = 0135-0536
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"Patma-Banasirakan Handes" ( _hy. Պատմա-Բանասիրական Հանդես (ՊԲՀ), "Historical-Philological Journal" ("PBH"); _ru. Историко филологический Журнал, Istoriko-Filologicheskii Zhurnal) is the official Armenian-language academic journal of the Armenian Academy of Sciences that is responsible for publishing articles and releasing reports related to Armenian history (primarily, material related to the ancient and medieval periods), art history, literature, and language.Vardanyan, N. "«Պատմա-Բանասիրական Հանդես»" (Patma-Banasirakan Handes). Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. vol. ix. Yerevan, Armenian SSR: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1983, pp. 158-159.] "PBH" was established in 1958 by Armenian academician Mkrtich G. Nersisyan in Yerevan (while Armenia was still a part of the Soviet Union), and is published quarterly. Nersisyan became the journal's first editor-in-chief and served in this position for several decades.

Most articles that were published during the Soviet era in Armenian were appended with a Russian language abstract, while those articles published in Russian had an Armenian abstract. In recent years, following Armenia’s independence in 1991, some articles also include English abstracts. "PBH" additionally publishes discussions and debates, book reviews and also has special sections devoted to science news and Armenian Diasporan affairs. Its contributors over the years have come to include academicians from the former Soviet Union, Europe, as well as Armenians from the Diaspora. The journal occasionally publishes obituaries, biographies and notes the works of distinguished scholars who were involved in Armenian studies at the anniversary (e.g., centennial) of their births and deaths.

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