Nakhijevan / НАХИДЖЕВАН / Նախիջեվան
The Armenian name for where Noah first descended from Mount Ararat | Нахиджеван, армянское название, то место, куда Ной впервые спустился с горы Арарат
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Since 1994, the major frontline escalations would often occur in Tavush rather than in Nagorno Karabakh.
CivilNet’s Tatul Hakobyan interviews Emil Sanamyan, a Washington-based specialist on Karabakh and editor of the Focus on Karabakh news site, a project of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies.
“It is evident that if military actions restart in Artsakh, Azerbaijan will use Nakhijevan territory by Turkey’s direct support to attack Armenia, particularly taking into account that the distance between the self-governing region and Yerevan amounts to 80 km. It is an entirely available distance for a jet system of volley fire,” explained Aram Sargsyan.
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The Parliament of the Republic of Artsakh issued a statement on February 28, on the 30th anniversary of the massacre of the Armenian population of Sumgait.
The statement says in part:
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Featuring a never-seen-before satellite image of the Djulfa cemetery before its final destruction, “The New Tears of Araxes” is an independent film (December 2006) that documents the vital loss of Azerbaijan’s indigenous Armenian cultural heritage.
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Five years after Azerbaijan’s war against defenseless medieval Armenian burial monuments, khachkars, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has released satellite image comparison and analysis where, in the 2009 data, no trace of the Djulfa cemetery remains.
AAAS’ press release reads, in part:
A high-resolution satellite image of a medieval Armenian cemetery in Azerbaijan taken in September 2003 shows hundreds of khachkars, intricate 15th and 16th century burial monuments. In a satellite image from May 2009, however, the khachkars are missing, suggesting that they were either destroyed or removed.
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In the below video, historian Artak Movsisyan talks in detail about the origins of the Armenian ethnos. The data is delivered by Armenian, Greek, Georgian, Arab, and Jewish historical sources.
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The book presents the memoirs of Hovhannes Hakhnazarian, a native of Agulis (a township in the historical Armenian district of Goghtan) and the only survivor from a large Armenian family that fell victim to the massacres perpetrated by the Turks in December 1919. The author provides a detailed account of this slaughter together with a brief history of the district.
Download PDF: RAA-Goghtan District, by Hovhannes Hakhnazarian
Published by the Research on Armenian Architecture (RAA) NGO, the atlas offers an all-embracing picture of Nakhijevan with maps of ethnic distribution, scriptoria, educational institutions and cultural monuments, both Christian and Islamic.
It also exposes the cultural genocide perpetrated by the Azerbaijani authorities of Nakhijevan.
Publication sponsor: Arthur Seredian, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Download PDF RAA-Nakhijevan-Atlas, English
Also available in Armenian
By Emanuele Aliprandi
MIA Publishers, Rome 2016
Historically, Nakhijevan has been one of the most prosperous regions under the rule of all Armenian kingdoms. Since the early history of the Armenian people until the 20th century, Nakhijevan was famous as a highly developed spiritual and cultural centre. In pre-Christian times the singers of Nakhijevan’s Goght’n province were very famous throughout Armenia. Then, in the early Christian period, the fi rst Armenian churches were founded in various areas of Nakhijevan. In this region, Mesrop Mashtots and his disciples preached and taught, gradually coming to the conclusion that Armenians needed their own alphabet. During the following centuries Nakhijevan became famous in one of the most signifi cant spheres of Medieval Armenian culture, that is. crafting stone crosses (khachkars).
After the collapse of Armenian statehood, the Nakhijevan region struggled to preserve its Armenian identity. In the late medieval period, the Armenian merchants of Agulis played an important role not only in regional trade deals, but also in the trade between the East and the West.
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