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Turkish newspaper Ikdam, dated November 4, 1918, announcing that three Pashas (Mehmet Talat, Ismail Enver, Ahmad Jemal) tried to resolve the Armenian issue by exterminating the Armenians. Source: Αριστοτέλης: φιλόσοφος – Aristoteles: philosophia
Van is a city that is currently in Turkey’s Van Province on the eastern side of the Republic of Turkey, located around Lake Van. This city has a long history of being populated by thousands of Armenians in the past 3,000 years under the various Armenian kingdoms and foreign empires, but following the Armenian Genocide …
A groundbreaking forensic report tracks Azerbaijan’s recent destruction of 89 medieval churches, 5,840 intricate cross-stones, and 22,000 tombstones. In April 2011, when a US Ambassador traveled to Azerbaijan, on the southwestern edge of the former USSR, he was denied access to the riverside borderland that separates this South Caucasus nation from Iran. But it was …
The Library of Congress has recently digitized two Armenian-language maps of Africa and Europe from the 18th century, completing the four-map set of the world that also includes Asia and America. The maps reflect the knowledge of the period’s European cartographers and the ways in which they conveyed it (including pictorial representation of points of interest). Prepared by Elia …
Battle of Manzikert, (26 August 1071), battle in which the Byzantines under the emperor Romanus IV Diogenes were defeated by the Seljuq Turks led by the sultan Alp-Arslan (meaning “Heroic Lion” in Turkish). It was followed by Seljuq conquest of most of Anatolia (Armenian highlands) and marked the beginning of the end for the Byzantine Empire as a militarily viable state. Spurred by Seljuq raids and incursions into Byzantine-ruled Anatolia (Armenian …
Baglivi Georgius (b. Republic of Dubrovnik [now a part of Yugoslavia], 8 September 1668; d Rome, Italy, 15 june 1707 biology. Baglivi’s family name was Armeno, which probably indicates that his father was of Armenian origin. His parents were Blasius Armeno and Anna de Lupis, repectable but poor merchants who both died in 1670; Georgius and his …
Guillaume Perrier, Steven Morris, Anna Günther, Carlo Bologna and Wojciech Bielawa In a special project with four other Europa newspapers, we talk to some of the few who still recall those momentous events ‘God let me live so that I could tell the story’Ovsanna Kaloustian Turkey The diminutive old woman does not go out in Marseille much …
More than century on, descendants of survivors who returned home open a museum to celebrate and preserve their culture Vakifli, a village in Hatay, the small wedge of Turkey sandwiched between the Mediterranean and the border with Syria, has the melancholy honour of being known as the country’s “last Armenian village”. These days, it is home …
21st Feb 1944 Missak Manouchian and twenty-one comrades were shot at Fort Mont-Valérien, on the outskirts of Paris. Missak Manouchian (1906-1944) survived one genocide and then gave his life fighting to stop another. He was born in Adiyaman, in Ottoman-ruled Armenia, on 1st September 1906. The son of Armenian peasants, Manouchian’s parents were both murdered …
Post about history. War crime SS Azerbaijan in Poland 1944.Azeri volunteers suppressed the Warsaw Uprising January 29, 1944, Heinz Reinefarth was assigned as SS and Police Leader in Reichsgau Wartheland (the pre-war Polish Greater Poland Voivodeship, annexed by Germany in 1939). In this post, he was responsible for the organised repression against Poles and other …
1. KARAHAN (right top and bottom) and PORTASAR (left top and bottom) are both ancient Armenian sites in ancient Armenian Highlands, not too far from one another. 2. Karahan site is older than Portasar. 3. Both designated site names are Armenian. 4. More than 95% of the ancient Armenian lands are now within borders of …
The French National Library published an English and French diary-memoir in April of 2021 titled “The Earth Alone Can Help Us” written by Srbuhi Hovakyan, who, by the narrowest margin, survived Armenian Genocide. It was edited by Raymond Kevorkian and Maximilian Girard. The presentation of the book took place at the National Library of France …
The Gevorgyan family was one of the prominent families living in the Khotorjur village group in the Kiskim district of Erzurum province. On the eve of the Armenian Genocide there were 978 Armenian houses in 9 quarters of Khotorjur, with a population of 6,906 mostly Catholic Armenians. The Gevorgyans’ grandfather, Serob (born in 1824, in …
Hidden Yerevan. Chapel-tomb of St. Ananias. It is located on the territory of the Surb Zoravor church complex. The chapel has been known since the 9th-10th centuries; a chapel-tomb was built on the relics of the apostle St. Ananias, which was once a famous pilgrimage site. People have come here for centuries with the hope …
An army temple, an Armenian monastery complex in Historical Armenia in the province of Taik (in the village of Banak (Penek) in the Erzurum-Karin region. In the 16th century, as a result of the invasion of the Turks, the monastery was abandoned and later destroyed. The army settlement was located in the Berdatspor region of …
Ani – The capital of medieval Armenia, now occupied by Turkey, currently lies in ruins and deserted. Ani is located in the Kars province, near the border with Armenia. It was once the capital of the medieval Armenian kingdom, covering most of modern Armenia and the east of Turkey. The city was known as the …
Turks and Bolsheviks pulled Armenia by the collar, each in their own direction. One says: “I will take you to the desert in Syria and destroy you. Another says: “No, I must take them and destroy them in Siberia.” From this noise, Armenia suddenly woke up and said. – You are both great states, aren’t …
On April 24, 1981, Diego Maradona, in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, and as a sign of respect for Noray Nakis, entered the football field with a tricolor Armenian flag. ‘No professional footballer who would at least 10% of Maradona’s potential would do this, even if asked to do so. Maradona deliberately …