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The Armenian name for where Noah first descended from Mount Ararat | Нахиджеван, армянское название, то место, куда Ной впервые спустился с горы Арарат
SIMON MAGHAKYAN
Covert destruction of Armenian-Christian heritage in Azerbaijan’s autonomous republic of Nakhichevan has been exposed in recently surfaced Cold War spy imagery taken by the US in the 1970s, published in “The Art Newspaper” for the first time.
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By Roza Melkumyan
According to Wikipedia, “Paraga is a village in the Ordubad District of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, a landlocked enclave of Azerbaijan. Its population of 306 is busy with gardening, vegetable-growing and animal husbandry. It has a secondary school, library and a medical center.” A small, remote village, it isn’t on anybody’s radar. Except mine.
I discovered only recently that this unimpressive village was the home of many of my Armenian ancestors. In its second and final section, Paraga’s Wikipedia page features a short paragraph detailing the Armenian monuments that once existed in the village. “In the center, there stood the domeless Surp Shimavon Church, and in the countryside, the Surp Hakob monastery complex, both of which dated back to the 12th and 17th centuries.”
Continue reading “Seeking Permanence in Pixels: Digital Echoes of Cultural Genocide”
The Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia has issued a statement on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian massacres in Agulis.
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CATHERINE WOMACK
For centuries the sacred khachkars of Djulfa stood tall along the banks of the River Aras — hulking and ornately carved 16th-century headstones, an army 10,000 strong, steadfastly guarding the world’s largest medieval Armenian cemetery. Earthquakes, war and vandalism diminished their ranks, but by the middle of the 20th century, thousands of khachkars still remained.
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Author: Bournoutian, George
Source: Iran & The Caucasus . 2015, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p97-107. 11p.
Document Type: Article
Subject: * BOUNDARIES * MAPS * TREATIES — History * TWENTIETH century * HISTORY IRAN — Foreign relations — 1925-1941 TURKEY — Foreign relations — 1918-1960
Continue reading “The Iran-Turkey-Armenia Borders as Depicted in Various Maps”
Colorado’s State Senate unanimously voted today to designate April 24 as “Colorado Day of the Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide” through a strongly-worded resolution that also recognized the Republic of Artsakh and the recent cultural genocide in Nakhichevan.
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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.
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.
Continue reading “The Origins of the Armenian People – Can Historical Data Eliminate Falsifications?”
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