This Week In Armenian History
Friday, May 31, 2013
Birth of Dro - May 31, 1884
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Dro (Drastamat Kanayan) was a freedom fighter, a military leader of the first Republic of Armenia, and a political activist in the Diaspora....
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Birth of Siranoush - May 25, 1857
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Siranoush is regarded as the most famous actress in the history of Armenian theater. She was a brilliant interpreter of tragedies and o...
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Birth of Hamo Bek-Nazarian - May 19, 1892
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Hamo (Hambardzum) Bek-Nazarian was one of the pioneers of Armenian cinema. Born in Yerevan in 1892, he moved with his family to Tashkent ...
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Liberation of Shushi - May 9, 1992
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Shushi had historically been the capital of Karabagh and the third most important Armenian cultural center in the Southern Caucasus (after T...
Monday, May 6, 2013
Death of Yeprem Khan - May 6, 1912
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Armenians participated simultaneously in the Ottoman constitutional revolution of 1908 headed by the Young Turks and in the Iranian Constitu...
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Birth of Hovhannes Shiraz - April 27, 1915
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Poet Hovhannes Shiraz, one of the most popular names in Armenia and the Diaspora during Soviet times, was born in Alexandropol (later Lenina...
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Birth of Taniel Varoujan - April 20, 1884
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In the first decade and half of the twentieth century, poet Taniel Varoujan rose to become the most remarkable name of Armenian literature...
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