 mesrop mashtots  (; 362february 17, 440) was an armenian theologian, linguist and hymnologist. he is best known for having invented the armenian alphabet c. 405 ad, which was a fundamental step in strengthening the armenian statehood and the bond between the armenian kingdom and armenians living in the byzantine empire and the persian empire. he was also, according to a number of scholars and contemporaneous armenian sources, the creator of the caucasian albanian and georgian alphabets.{{cite book|last1=bowersock|first1=g.w.|last2=brown|first2=peter|last3=editors|first3=oleg grabar,|title=late antiquity : a guide to the postclassical world|date=1999|publisher=belknap press of harvard univ. press|location=cambridge, mass.|isbn=0-674-51173-5|page=
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