 The discovery of Urartu has come to play a significant role in 19th and 20th-century Armenian nationalism.Kagik Ozanyan claims that Tanzimat regulations, helped the formation of an Armenian political strata and incited the Armenian national spirit, which was aligned with the nation building through revolution aligned with the French Revolution perspective.The Russian Consul General to Ottoman Empire, General Mayewski, recorded the following 

The development of ideas of nationalism, salvation and independence, established during the late 19th century, along with the other national movements, as a nascent Armenian intelligentsia promoted the use of these new concepts in society with a particularly an Armenian import.