Ancient Armenian Submitted Surnames

These names were used by ancient Armenian peoples.
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Erkiletian Ancient Armenian (Rare)
Erkiletian is an ancient surname possibly derived from an ancient translation of “Achilles”. Family tradition holds that during the first century AD a businessman quarreled with his son because he wanted his son to work in their family business, but the son wanted to work as an artist instead, and after the argument the son ran away and to the town Erkilet, located in modern day Kayseri, Turkey... [more]