Why were the Medes and Kurds linked in Armenian chronicles? Such a connection between 'the present' and the past, like this Lewond piece, is a tenable explanation. Lewond's use of "the Medes" in the eighth century isn't enough to make the connection. However, the additional information needed to piece together 1 + 1 would be readily available and evident to the medieval Armenian chronicles. 'Al Akrad' is the ethnonym used in Arabic sources to refer to the same underlying reality, including those lands and peoples. Armenians started to use "Kurds" to refer to the same group as they discovered that it's the wording other groups use.
Lewond (8th-century):
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