“The country known as Armenia was once a fairly significant state, which extended in length from the banks of the Euphrates River to the Kur and the Caspian Sea for 1,500 versts (around 1,500 km or 932 mi), and in width from the lands of the Laz people, Colchis, the Caucasus Mountains, and Iberia to …
Harutyun Vehapetyan, the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, has made great efforts to transfer an antique mosaic from Musrar into the legal possession of the Armenian Apostolic Church. In the 7th century, there were about 70 Armenian churches and monasteries in Israel which were all decorated with mosaics. One of them, with an Armenian ornament and …
“He is the Armenian Robin Hood, Garibaldi, and Washington all in one. He is an ideal patriot, about whom ballads are created everywhere and whose name inspires Armenians to sing songs to him at work or when lulling a baby.” The Literary Digest, 1920 Andranik Ozanyan (1865-1927) was an activist of the Armenian national liberation …
The legend of Siranush (Merope Sahaki Kantarjian, May 25, 1856 – June 10, 1932) is living among Armenians for more than a century. Her name was a benchmark, an unattainable peak in the history of Armenian theatrical art. This actress of great dramatic talent with her life and work has become one of the few …
“What was the most joyful day of your life?”“It is not easy to make a choice… Nevertheless, I would name two days. The first was the day when I, at the age of twenty, devoted myself to serving God. I remember how I kneeled down before the altar, as our Armenian rite required. At that …
Russian rock musician Stas Namin presented his idea to make a film about Armenia: “Since childhood, Armenia has been a magical country for me. My mother used to say this all the time. And my grandfather and his brothers were born in a distant mountain village with a beautiful romantic name ‘Sanahin.’ With Armenia is …
A native of Karabakh, Mikael Aramyants lived and worked in Tiflis. He had extensive experience in the trade of sugar and cotton and was an owner of apartment houses, estates, cottages, boarding houses, and sources of healing mineral waters in Akhtal and Kislovodsk. Mikael Aramyants played a huge role in the development of the oil …
In the Bulgarian city of Pazardzhik located on the railway line from Istanbul to Western Europe, there is a street named after one Hovhannes Sevadjian. This Sevadjian was a local chief of the railway station and a cryptographer during the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878 which liberated the Bulgarian people from the Turkish yoke. When the …
Claude Mutafian is a Doctor of History, a professor of mathematics, senior lecturer at the Paris 13 University in Villetaneuse, and author of numerous books on the history of Armenia. Claude (Armen) Mutafian was born on July 27, 1942, in the French town of Clamart. From early childhood, he showed an interest in mathematics, literature, …
One of the first power stations in the world was financed in Hong Kong in 1890 by Sir Khachick Paul Chater, a British-Indian businessman of Armenian descent. At the suggestion of Ben Layton, adviser to the British Empire in Hong Kong, Khachick Paul Chater acquired the old cemetery in the Wan Chai district and deployed …
“Arriving in Venice in 1816, I, as probably all other travelers, was greatly impressed by the community of St. Lazarus, which seems to unite all the advantages of a monastic institution while not possessing any of its vices. Purity, comfort, meekness, unfeigned piety, the talents, and virtues of the brothers of the order are capable …
“And the Armenian, the naive Armenian, always remained faithful, was always devoted and sacrificed himself for the sake of others. Without worrying about his house, forgetting about his own troubles, he lived by other people’s interests. He left the ruins of his country to build other palaces. This is our disease. We do not know …
The Armenian quarter in the Old City was formed in the 12th century when the Cathedral of Surb Hakobyants was built. Later, the Surb Toros Church was erected as well, in which handwritten books of the Jerusalem Patriarchate of the Armenian Apostolic Church began to be collected. For a long time, Patriarch Yegishe Turyan had …
“Armenians are a people who know how to preserve and pass on from generation to generation the holy respect for the handwritten book for centuries, and sometimes with blood. Usually, everyone protects their land. We protect every inch of our land, the house in which we grew up, and sacredly keep the memory of our …
The contribution of Nzhdeh to Armenianship is invaluable, and it is impossible to find a word that would more accurately describe his role in the life of this nation than the word “prophet”. Garegin Nzhdeh is a prophet of the Armenian people. He has been gifted to his nation at the most difficult times by …
The policy of peace ensured by the occupant troops of Russia specified in the document published below is a very “interesting” imperial policy adopted at the time by the Bolsheviks. This policy is still pursued by the modern Kremlin. The significance of the disputed territories, as well as the presence of the occupant forces and …
The book “Madame Bey’s: Home to Boxing Legends” tells about America’s most famous boxing club in the 1940s and its founder, Armenian emigrant Hranoush Bey, writes NewJerseyHills. “This book is dedicated to one of the most popular boxing clubs of the last century, where, for the first time in America, spectacular fights between professionals have …
Aram Yerganian (1900-1934) was an activist of the Armenian national liberation movement and a member of the Dashnaktsutyun party. During the Armenian Genocide of 1915, Yerganian was in Karin but soon left with the Russian troops for the Caucasus. In 1917, he joined the ranks of Armenian volunteers. Shortly after, he was appointed a quartermaster …