The ancient Karahunj monument located in Syunik Province of Armenia and recorded in various catalogs and magazines as the oldest observatory in the world is on the verge of destruction. The process of the monument’s demolition continues despite the resentment in the Armenian society. It should be noted separately that the demolition of the monument …
On April 1, 1920, the Armenian armed forces under the command of Garegin Nzhdeh defeated Nuri Pasha’s troops in the Zabugh gorge and entered Artsakh. On April 15, 1920, shortly after the arrival of Dro, entire Artsakh was liberated. Nzhdeh with his Kapan military unit was at the time stationed in the Dizak (Hadrut) area. …
In 1959, Gevorg (Kevork) and his brothers Hirair, Jirair, and Vahak founded Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., New Jersey’s largest construction company. Already by 1989, the company had built more than 30,000 homes. In 1989-2009, over 200,000 apartments have been sold by Hovnanian Enterprises. Today, the company of the Hovnanian brothers is one of the largest and …
In September 1920, an uprising broke out in Syunik against the Russian and allied Tatar-Turkish troops that had invaded the country back in June. The uprising was led by Poghos Ter-Davtyan. At the same time, at the instigation of the Russians, the Kemalists invaded Armenia. While the Armenians lost the Armenian-Turkish war on and Armenia …
Exactly 95 years before the beginning of the April 2016 war, on April 2, 1921, the Russian army entered the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, to break the will and desire of the Armenian people to live in an independent and lawful country. The Armenian military forces led by sparapet Kuro Tarkhanian retreated to Syunik, where …
American author Susan Pattie recently published the work “The Armenian Legionnaires: Sacrifice and Betrayal in World War I”, which is dedicated to the creation of the Armenian Legion in the days of the WWI and its future activities. In this book, the author tells about the activities of the Armenian Legion and the fates of …
In February, the New York online magazine Hyperallergic published a report prepared by researchers Simon Maghakyan and Sarah Pickman on the complete disappearance of Armenian monuments and cultural values in Nakhichevan. The authoritative British newspaper Guardian also referred to this report, calling the situation in Nakhichevan a cultural Genocide. “According to the report posted in …
Memory resurrects the tragic history of Armenia of the late 19th – early 20th centuries, the massacre in Constantinople, the Sasun massacre, the “great murderer”, and the vile indifference of the Christians of “cultural” Europe which they expressed towards the extermination of their “brothers in Christ”. The shameful act of the plunder of the church …
When it comes to hostile actions against the Republic of Armenia in 1920 and the demolition of Armenian statehood, it must be remembered that the first military encroachment on Armenia was made not by the Kemalists but by Azerbaijan and, after the country’s Sovietization, by Soviet Russia. The Armenian-Turkish war began in September 1920. It …
We present to your attention a unique document from 1917 written by the Emir of the city of Mecca Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi. In it, His Highness appealed to the Arabs to help the Armenians. The statement of the emir is stored in the Hashemite court of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. “In the name of …
Piluman Tairian, who had emigrated from Erzurum to Karakilisa (now Vanadzor), in 1831 initiated the construction of the Surb Astvatsatsin Church which had been destroyed by an earthquake six years prior. A new church was built next to the old one, 10-15 meters north of the original site. One of the grandsons of Piluman Tairian, …
So, on June 11, 1899, the articles of association of the A.I. Mantashev and Co. joint-stock oil industry and trading company were approved, according to which the founders of the company were the Tiflis 1st guild merchant Al. Mantashiants and the Baku 1st guild merchant M. Aramiants. The fixed capital of the company was 22 …
April 2, 2019, marks the 26th anniversary of the liberation of Karvachar (Kelbajar). On March 27, 1993, Armenian troops launched an operation to liberate Karvachar. By March 29, the city has been surrounded. Within 3 days, the Armenian forces occupied the regional center. The population of the city had been evacuated by helicopters or had …
English diplomat James Morier in 1812, on the way from Tiflis to Tehran, made a stop in Karakilisa (present-day Vanadzor). Morier writes in his notes: “The houses in Karakilisa, like all the houses in this country, are underground. Karakilisa is a small village that, except for being an outpost for the Russian army, is of …
In 1834, in accordance with the testament of two very rich Armenian merchants Rafael and his son-in-law Murad, the Mekhitarist Order established the Muradian Gymnasium in the Italian city of Padua in the region of Veneto. In 1836, the Rafaelian Gymnasium was established in the Venetian palace Bezaro. In 1850, the gymnasium was moved to …
Vanadzor is the third largest city in Armenia after Yerevan and Gyumri. It is the administrative center of Lori Province. The Turkish name of the city “Karakilisa” (Armenian: Ղարաքիլիսա, kara kilise – “black church”) was for the first time mentioned in a record made on one of the pages of the manuscript Bible of Priest …