The Armenians emerged as a people in about 600 BCE, occupying a rugged region in the Transcaucasus in western Asia. Although at various times the Armenians created an independent state, which under the ruler Tigranes the Great (c. 140– c. 55...
The estimated 700,000 Americans of Armenian ancestry are descended from an ancient nation located at the borders of modern Russia, Turkey, and Iran. Through much of the past 4,000 years, Armenians have been a subjugated people with no independent...
ARMENIAN RELIGION. The Armenians' remotest ancestors immigrated to Anatolia in the mid-second millennium BCE. Related to speakers of the Thraco-Phrygian languages of the Indo-European family, they probably brought with them a religion akin to...
This article is about Armenians as an ethnic group. For people living in Armenia, see Demographics of Armenia. The Armenians (Armenian: Հայեր, Hayer) are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and in the Armenian...
"More often than not, ethnic nations don't adhere to their traditions and don't preserve their culture," said Martin Haroutunian, director of Arev Armenian Folk Ensemble. "That is one thing that we, as Armenians in the United States, think it is important to do." ...
ARMENIANS The Armenian Rebellion at Van, by Justin McCarthy, Esat Arslan, Cemalettin Takiran, and Omer Turan. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2006. vii + 266 pages. 11 Maps. Notes. Appends, to p. 285. Bibl. to p. 291. Index to p. 296....
House sponsors of a resolution that would label as genocide the 1915 killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks have asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi to delay a vote on the measure because they feared it would fail.Support for the resolution deteriorated this month, after Turkey recalled...
Fifty-three Nobel laureates are calling on Turkey and Armenia to open their border and resolve their differences over the mass killings of Armenians by Turks in the early 20th century.In a letter released Monday by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, the group urged Turkey...
