Chess Pawns. Mher Mkrtchyan liked to animate objects. Here is what he said about chess pawns: “When I look at pawns, when I think about their fate, by golly, I am reduced to tears. For a single soldier to reach the eighth horizontal, it is necessary that almost all the others sacrifice themselves. For the …
Below are renders from a 3D reconstruction of the central quarter of the city of Tigranakert of Artsakh, the first city built in the territory of Artsakh. Recall that the Artsakh Tigranakert was founded in 77 BC by King of Greater Armenia Tigran the Great. The city existed for 1,500 years until the 14th century …
Traces of processing very similar to machine processing were found on fragments of granite in a basalt fortress dating to the 2nd millennium BC on the Armavirablur hill in less than an hour drive from the capital of Armenia Yerevan. The basalt blocks themselves have been clearly processed manually. In contrast, the granite fragments seem …
In Armenian myths, Tsovinar or Tsovyan (“marine”) was the spirit of thunderstorm and the personification of lightning. Tsovinar was a wrathful woman galloping on a fiery horse in the clouds during thunderstorms. She sent people life-giving rain or deleterious hail. In the Armenian epos “Sasna Tsrer” (“Daredevils of Sasun”), Tsovinar was the mother of twins …
The illustration (14th century) above is from the Armenian translation of “Stories of Alexander the Great.” Most likely, the artist depicted Armenian cavalrymen. After the heroic resistance of the Armenian army in the Battle of Gaugamela and the defeat of the Macedonian army led by commander Memnon in Armenia, Alexander the Great ceased to attempt …
1. Consider the interim agreement concluded on behalf of the Karabakh congress with the Azerbaijani government as violated by the latter due to the organized attack of the Azerbaijani troops on the peaceful Armenian population of Karabakh and the extermination of the population in Shushi and surrounding villages. 2. Declare the accession of Nagorno-Karabakh to …
One theory claims that the most ancient centers of astronomical knowledge were the territories of Armenia and Asia Minor. Prominent historians and astronomers concluded that people who divided the sky into constellations have lived between 36 and 42 degrees of northern latitude. According to English astronomer Olcott, people who invented the ancient figures of the …
It is dangerous to ignore the truth, but it is even more dangerous to forget about it. This was also known to Adolf Hitler who mentioned the Armenian Genocide in his second speech to the Wehrmacht officers a week before the invasion of Poland in 1939. He appealed to the Totenkopf division with a call …
Vishaps in Armenian mythology were dragons, chthonic creatures. They were represented in a zoomorphic (most often in the form of a snake) or anthropomorphic appearance and personified thunderstorms, tornadoes, or thunderclouds. According to myths, the big Vishap absorbed the sun, causing an eclipse. Vishaps lived in high mountains, in large lakes, in the sky, in …
In Armenian mythology, Astghik (“little star”) was the goddess of love and water and the beloved of god Vahagn. Her main temple in Ashtishat (north of the modern city of Mush in Western Armenia) was called the “bedroom of Vahagn.” Sometimes, the goddess of fertility, love, and water in Armenian pantheon was referred to as …
Considering that the issue of the participation of Nagorno-Karabakh will be resolved at the Peace Conference; that all clashes are fatal for the nationalities living in Karabakh; that with any resolution of the Karabakh issue, Armenians and Muslims will have to live together, the Karabakh congress at the fourth meeting on August 15, 1919, decided …
Mihr-Mher-Mithra is a god of heavenly light and sun and the son of Aramazd in the ancient Armenian pantheon. In ancient Armenia, a temple in Bagaharij (in the territory of modern Turkey), the Mheri Dur altar (“the door of Mher”) in the mountains near the city of Van, and also, apparently, the Garni temple were …
The number of Armenians in Chile is 2000 people. This figure also includes members of mixed families which make up a significant part of the Armenian community of the country. The Armenian community in Chile can be called peculiar since over the years, the number of Armenians in Chile has not increased and instead remained …
Miniature number 1. The Derbent Governorate to the south of modern Dagestan and the north of modern Azerbaijan. The population was 116 thousand people and comprised of Georgians, Chechens, and Armenians. Tatars (current Azerbaijanis) are not mentioned – all highlanders are counted as Chechens. Miniature number 2. The Erivan Governorate, which is practically modern Armenia. …
“Warrior! Die a glorious death so that your native land does not feel shame, accepting your body. The best decoration for a brave man is a wound received on the battlefield. Cowards die on the battlefield from a random, “blind” bullet. Victories are won not by quantity but by quality. Attack without asking about the …
“Yes, there was a time when Armenia stretched from sea to sea and beyond, a time when luck crowned the victorious Armenian forehead with pink fingers. But, alas, nothing lasts forever under the sun. A nation that swiftly rises up must be toppled with a crash. A nation is destined to gradually lose its power …
Famous Turkish publisher, human rights activist, and publicist Ragip Zarakolu in his article published on the Ozgur-gundem website speaks of “historians” denying the Armenian Genocide and recalls the worries expressed by the Armenian communities for 100 years, noting that the latter only this year (2015 ) decided to organize events to commemorate the victims of …
One of the real founders of the First Republic of Armenia, Aram Manukian, has lived in this house from 1917 to 1919. Here, he died of typhoid fever on January 29, 1919. In this very house, Aram met Khalil Kut Pasha on August 31, 1918. This meeting was also attended by the representative of Germany …