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	Armenians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Armenians who originate from Iran are referred to as Parska-Hye, Armenians from Lebanon are usually referred to as Lipana-Hye and Armenians who are from Armenia (that is, they or their ancestors were not forced to flee in 1915) are referred to as Hyeastansees meaning those that are from Armenia.
		The Armenian Apostolic Church is a part of the Oriental Orthodox communion, not to be confused with the Eastern Orthodox communion.
		Armenians are a sub branch of the Indo-European family, which migrated from the north Caucasus in multiple directions around 4500 B.C. Armenians are their own sub-group in the Indo-European family and one of the smallest by population of the family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armenian_people (2021 words)

	Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Armenia, or Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստան, Hayastan, Հայք, Hayq), is a landlocked country in the southern Caucasus, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east and Iran (Persia) and the Nakhichevan exclave of Azerbaijan to the south.
		Armenians and a handful of other countries worldwide have been campaigning for official recognition of the events as genocide for over 30 years, but there are also many countries who are pressured not to officially characterize the Armenian massacres as Genocide.
		Mount Ararat, regarded by the Armenians as a symbol of their land, is the highest mountain in the region and used to be part of Armenia until around 1915, when it fell to the Turks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armenia (2872 words)

	Info about Armenia
		It is the seat of the Catholicos of All Armenians and the center of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
		Armenians usually place the subject of their sentence in front of the verb or action, so that the sentence, "I want coffee," is said in Armenian grammar, "I coffee want" (There is a subtle respect for the object of the sentence implied in this grammar.
		Armenians love any attempt to speak their language, and it is a sure ice-breaker in an uncertain moment, winning admirers and instant friends.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~ksargsya/armenia/armenia.htm (944 words)

	Armenia - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Armenians were converted to Christianity in the early 4th century, and by some accounts they were the first in the world to adopt Christianity as a state religion.
		The Armenian Church was allowed to continue as the national church of the Armenian republic during the Soviet period, although the Soviet Union was officially atheistic because of its Communist ideology.
		The Ottoman government accused the Armenians of being pro-Russian and cited the threat of internal rebellion as justification for the massacres.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /armenia.htm (4270 words)

	Armenian Highland -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The average elevation of the Armenian Highland is 5,000 to 6,500 feet (1,500 to 2,000 m), but several peaks exceed 14,000 feet (4,000 m).
		The highland is a segment of the Mediterranean alpine volcanic…
		Sweeping from Newfoundland to Alabama, the Appalachian Highlands dominate the landscape of the Eastern seaboard.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9009517 (856 words)

	Chronology of the History of Armenia - Armenica
		Armenian highland is a mountainous country, a natural fortress that stretches from the eastern Caucasus to Anatolia and from the Black Sea to Mesopotamia.
		According to the legend the leader of the Armenians was a man by the name Hayk, whom the Armenians regard as their tribunal father and therefore call themselves "hay" (hay), i.e.
		Armenian commanders who served at the court of the Bagratouni kings of Georgia played an important role in retaking of some parts of Armenia, which resulted in the creation of some Armenian principalities in the north-western Armenia, under Georgian protection.
	www.armenica.org /cgi-bin/history/en/getHistory.cgi?2=1 (9376 words)

	The Armenian Origins of Swastika (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		After careful examination of the Armenian alphabet, one would find that half a dozen of its letters are nothing more than modified versions of the famous swastika symbol.
		Armenian letters prounounced as —Ke-; -Kea-; -Xe-; -Pea-; -Fe-; and —Ea- have their origins in the ancient proto-Armenian petroglyphical writings found through out the Armenian Highland.
		In Armenian language, the second portion of the word —swastika-, the 'ast' or also referred as 'asd' means power, which is also the root of the word 'Astvats' meaning God in Armenian.
	www.angelfire.com /hi/Azgaser/swastika.html (454 words)

	Armenian Tourist Attractions: Facts about the Country
		Specialists speculate that the Armenians migrated to the Armenian Highland via the Balkans or the Caucasus.
		As large parts of Armenia became parts of the Persian and Byzantine Empires, the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia was born on the Mediterranean coast in 1080.
		A fledgling Armenian Republic was born in Caucasia with the collapse of the Russian Empire which was attacked by Mustafa Kemal's forces which resulted in the annexation and depopulation of Armenians from Kars and Ardahan as well.
	www.cilicia.com /armo5_countryfacts.html (2043 words)

	Art and Literature
		Orphaned at an early age, he was sent in 1881 to Ejmiatsin, the spiritual center of the Armenian Apostolic Church, to study at the Gevorkian Seminary where he mastered the art of Armenian liturgical singing and conducted research on Armenian folk and sacred music.
		The 1915-1917 Ottoman genocide of the Armenians was the beginning of Komitas' tragic period which was marked by psychic trauma and artistic loss.
		Armenian architecture, a particularly rich part of the Armenian heritage, is widely recognized as a unique contribution to international architecture.
	www.ecml.at /html/armenian/html/art.html (1458 words)

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		Among Armenians Tork 'was also called Tork'Angel; Khorenatsi refers to him as Tork'of Angel, i.e.Tork' of Angelian descent.In the Old Armenian translation of the Bible, the god of the Underworld, Nergal of the Semitic text, is translated as Angel(who probably corresponds also to the Sumerian Engur, the god of the Abyss).
		It is true that in later centuries the Armenian Highland, as a highway between continents, has been subjected to many foreign military, political,and cultural influences and has adopted other deities, even yielding to oblivion the identity of Ara; but still there are many place-names in the country that preserve the memory of Ar or Ara.
		Astuas, as the principal national deity of the Armenians (Hayk-Haldi), was the greatest of all gods ans as the father of all was elevated to heaven.
	www.angelfire.com /hi/Azgaser/AR.html (4346 words)

	Armenia
		Armenians constitute more than 90 percent of the republic's population, a proportion that increased considerably in recent years with the departure of Azeris and the influx of Armenian refugees from the Nagorno-Karabakh territory of Azerbaijan, because of the conflict in that region.
		Agriculture is the second largest sector of the Armenian economy, accounting for nearly 20 percent of the labor force in the early 1990s.
		Under Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, Armenians took advantage of the policy of glasnost' (Russian for "openness") to publicly decry the state of the environment and rally for the annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan.
	www.ovayonda.ws /lodging/country/am.html (2359 words)

	About Armenia-History, Facts, Cities, Regions
		The Armenians are the descendants of a branch of Indo-Europeans
		The invention of the Armenian alphabet in 405 by St. Mesrop Mashtots seems to be a landmark in the millennial history of the Armenian people that resulted in a powerful cultural bang.
		A lengthy national liberation movement ended with the victory of Armenians and in 859 Ashot Bagratouni of the Bagratouni dynasty was recognized Prince of Pinces, and in 885 he granted the title of the Armenian king by the Caliph.
	www.visitarm.com /aboutarmenia.html (2096 words)

	Armenian Genocide Resources for Teachers
		In May, after mass deportations had already begun, Minister of the Interior Talaat Pasha, claiming that Armenians could offer aid and comfort to the enemy and were in a state of imminent rebellion, ordered their deportation into the Syrian desert.
		In this manner the Armenian people were eliminated from their homeland of several millennia.
		Despite mild differences to the definition used by scholars, the Armenian Case is genocide whether one uses the U.N. definition or a broader definition like Charney's.
	www.teachgenocide.org (336 words)

	Revolution in Armenia: Armenian Revolutionary Federation
		The Armenians would not be fighting a war with Azerbaijan since the 1990s and lusting for more territory had it not been for Khruschev who allowed the Russians to infect their communist movement with bourgeois ideology.
		When Armenians denounce inter-marriage and speak for a mythical national purity, they are falling into racism, a belief in common ancestors and their importance.
		Armenian intellectuals in Baku missed their chance to gain credibility by failing to form an anti-war movement to unite the exploited as the Soviet Union fell apart.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/countries/armenia/armeniasocialistparty.html (1818 words)

	ArmeniaGuide.com Applied Art Exibit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Armenian goldsmiths were masters of the techiniques of engraving, shaping, meshing, threading and granulation.
		The Armenian ceramic industry in Kutahya flourished for hundreds of years until it ended abruptly at the beginning of this century, when the Armenian community was exiled from the city.
		The Armenian presence in the field of carpet making, among the oldest and most constant presence in the history of the development of this art and craft in western Asia, has been an important influence throughout this part of world.
	www.armeniaguide.com /html/appliedart.html (2218 words)

	Armenian History - www.ezboard.com
		In the legend recorded by the Armenian historian Moses of Khoren and according to Armenian tradition, we are direct descendants of Aram, the direct descendant of Hayk from the year 2492 BC (when the Armenian nation was founded), who is a descendant of Japheth the son of Noah.
		On January 6, 1198 Levon/Leon I is crowned as King of Lesser Armenia (Cilicia) by the new Armenian catholicos with a crown from the Hohenstaufen emperor.
		The Armenian community of New Julfa, a suburb of Isfahan, was held by Shah Abbas I in great esteem and became one of the economic bases of the Safavid state.
	pub18.ezboard.com /fbalkansfrm39.showMessage?topicID=38.topic (5830 words)

	Armenian Ecotourism Association/Biodiversity
		Armenia, occupying the part of Armenian highland is located on the borderline of development of different floristic and faunal areas in the region.
		Among mammals, the distribution and population of Armenian mouflon (Ovis orientalis gmelinii) have declined as a result of habitat loss and poaching.
		A native breed of rabbits ("Armenian marder") were bred from blue-coated rabbits crossed with Himalayan and chinchilla breeds.
	www.ecotourismarmenia.com /pages/bio.htm (4150 words)

	Armenian Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Following the ecclesiastical controversy concerning the twofold nature of Christ, the Armenian Christians refused to accept the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon and formed a separate church, sometimes referred to as the Gregorian church.
		The remaining larger portion of the Armenian church is headed by its catholicos, who resides at Echmiadzin, a monastery near Yerevan in Armenia.
		The monastery has been the ecclesiastical metropolis of the Armenian nation since the4th century; it is said to be the oldest monastic foundation in the Christian world.The older branch of the Armenian church in the U.S., the Armenian Church of North America, has been under the jurisdiction of the See of Echmiadzin since 1887.
	www.fortunecity.com /business/napier/112/id87.htm (358 words)

	HyeEtch - The Armenians - Prominent Armenians
		ne of the greatest folk epics in Armenian History is the Epic of Haig, forefather and establisher of the first Armenian kingdom in third millenium B.C. The Father of Armenian History, Movses Khorenatsi (Moses of Khorene), wrote the epic from the oral tradition of the troubadours in the Fifth Century AD.
		The epic story tells us of Haig, the chieftain of the tribe of Armens (Arymins) one of the most powerful, organized and biggest of the Armenian tribes in Armenian Highland and as well as Northern Mesopotamia (Armenian Mesopotamia).
		Haig calls on his kinsmen to unite into one single nation and kingdom in order to defend and to continue cultivate, improve and enrich the ancestral homeland.
	www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au /armenians/prominent_p3.html (247 words)

	armenian
		Portraits of Armenian writers and critics in Romania: Gheorghe Asachi, Costache Negruzzi, Garabet Ibraileanu, Ion Barbu, Haig Acterian, Nicolae Balota, Stefan Agopian, Bedros Horasangian.
		Paintings in the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Guggenheim, Hirshhorn, the Montclair Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, ANSC Image Library, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, also at the University of Michigan.
		Armenian Painters: Hovhannes Aivazovsky, Martiros Saryan, Minas Avetisian, Hakob Hakobyan, Grigor Khandjyan, Roudolf Khachatrian, Gevorg Bashinjagyan
	www.personal.ceu.hu /students/02/Leon_Stacescu/armenian.htm (593 words)

	Armenian Ecotourism Association/About Armenia
		This is only a part of the enormous mountainous area called Armenian Highlands with a territory of 400.000 square kilometers.
		The highest peak of the Armenian Highlands is the Big Ararat (Masis in Armenian, 5165m) where Noah’s Arch landed after the World Flood.
		Since olden times the vast territory of the Armenian Highland was inhabited by many nations, Armenians among them.
	www.ecotourismarmenia.com /pages/about.htm (550 words)

	St. Pachomius Library: Armenia
		A country said to have been evangelized by the apostles Bartholomew and Thaddeus, although its official conversion took place in the early IV Century reign of Tiridates, after the mission of St. Gregory the Illuminator.
		The Church is often credited with preserving this culture to the present day; of course, this has also given the Armenian Church a political dimension.
		An unusual and to many people (including the editors of this library) rather disturbing feature of Armenian Christianity is the continuation of animal sacrifice, a subject which to our knowledge has not been much discussed by theologians interested in resolution of the Non-Chalcedonian problem.
	www.voskrese.info /spl/Xarmenia.html (246 words)

	Links by Country \| Armenia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Armsite - Paintings of eminent Armenian Painters: Hovhannes Aivazovsky, Martiros Saryan, Minas Avetisian, Hakob Hakobyan, Grigor Khandjyan, Roudolf Khachatrian and Gevorg Bashinjagyan.
		Armenian Embassy to the US - Discover Armenia; from the Armenian Embassy in Washington, D.C. :: The World Factbook - CIA Factbook on Armenia
		Armenian Highland - Offers historical and cultural resources.
	www.ku.edu /~crees/outreach/Countries/NIS/armenia.htm (234 words)

	Armenia
		Background: An Armenian Apostolic Christian country, Armenia was incorporated into Russia in 1828 and the USSR in 1920.
		Armenian leaders remain preoccupied by the long conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, a primarily Armenian-populated region, assigned to Soviet Azerbaijan in the 1920s by Moscow.
		By May 1994, when a cease-fire took hold, Armenian forces held not only Nagorno-Karabakh but also a significant portion of Azerbaijan proper.
	www.paulnoll.com /Locations/visiting-Armenia.html (333 words)

	Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies's Resources Links: # - A
		Armenian National Institution: Study, Research, and Affirmation of the Armenian Genocide.
		Libraries - Here are "Armenian massacres" and "Armenian question" holdings at area academic and public libraries.
		The Armenian Genocide: Basic summary of events, quotes, articles of the time, suggested readings, and pictures.
	www.chgs.umn.edu /Links___Bibliography/Links/__-_A/__-_a.html (826 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: Asia: Armenia: Arts and Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Armenian Cinema - Association of film critics and cinema journalists.
		Armenian LibCons - Includes searchable databases of various university libraries in the country.
		Introduction to Armenian Rugs - Highlights the contribution made by Armenians to the art form of rug weaving, primarily in the Caucases region.
	dmoz.org /Regional/Asia/Armenia/Arts_and_Entertainment (246 words)

	Armenian Sites on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Armenian Highland Armenian Highland Land of Ararat Indo-European Homeland.
		Armenian Diasporan Archives/Archives de la Diaspora Arménienne An on-line publication where topics of interest to worldwide Armenian Diasporans are presented and discussed.
		CHURCH: The Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church A brief introduction to the history, faith, theology, functional structure and hierarchy of the Armenian Church.
	www.arminco.com /Armenia/Web/armweb.html (1247 words)

	Genocide1915.info - The Armenian Genocide Recognition Struggle! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		AGUS is a public organization which combines the voices of the Armenian poeple by combining the impact and information of all the Armenian Genocide sites within the Union.
		Our sole purpose is to centralize the efforts of all the websites into one group or Union where the Armenian cry for Justice will be heard farther and wider ultimately resulting in the recognition of the Armenain Genocide by the entire world.
		Armenian Genocide of 1915 by Ottoman Empire and Armenian Genocide of 1990 in Azerbaijan
	www.genocide1915.info /agus.asp (469 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 00693453
		Table of contents for Armenian perspectives : 10th anniversary conference of the Association internationale des etudes armeniennes ; School of Oriental and African Studies, London / edited by Nicolas Awde.
		The phonology of voiced aspirates in the Armenian dialect of NewJulfa BERT VAUX 26.
		The new Armenian inscriptions from Jerusalem MICHAEL E. Armenische Pers6nlichkeiten auf byzantinischen Siegein WERNER SEIBT 30.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/fy032/00693453.html (539 words)

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