The Armenian printed media has played a huge role in the development of socio-political thought and scientific and cultural life, as well as in the dissemination of European values in Armenian reality. Armenian print media was founded in October 1794 in the Indian city of Madras. The first Armenian newspaper was “Azdarar” (“Herald”), which was …
My trip from the province to Constantinople took place under hellish conditions: I will never forget what I have seen and heard. I witnessed the extermination of an entire people, and what I am writing now is a summary, a schematic depiction of what had happened, and it cannot even represent a thousandth part of …
Commander Narses (478-573) was a Romanized Armenian general and an influential court official of the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian I. Along with Belisarius, he was one of the great generals in service of the Byzantine Emperor. Narses was born presumably in 478 in the territory of Armenia, which was then part of Sassanian Persia. …
Khachatur Kesaratsi (1590-1646) was the founder of the first printing press in Iran. He installed the printing press in the Church of Holy Savior in New Julfa in 1638. Khachatur Kesaratsi’s printing house was the first not only in Iran but also in the entire Middle East. The first book in Persian was published in …
Armenians, Greeks, Yezidis, and Assyrians remained under the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. Our people suffered the greatest losses and lost their native land. From 1890 to 1923, the casualties of the Armenian people reached three million three hundred thousand. In the mentioned period, we had three Catholicosates (Etchmiadzin, Cilicia, Akhtamar), three patriarchies (Constantinople, Jerusalem, …