This Week In Armenian History
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Birth of William Saroyan - August 31, 1908
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William Saroyan was, without discussion, the most important name of Armenian origin in American literature and, in the 1930s and 1940s, one ...
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Adolf Hitler’s Armenian Phrase: “Who, After All, Speaks Today . . .” - August 22, 1939
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had an early awareness of the Armenian Genocide. One of his closest friends and advisors had been Max Erwin von Sch...
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Birth of Megerdich Beshigtashlian - August 18, 1828
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Megerdich Beshigtashlian was a pioneering writer and public figure of Western Armenian society, considered the founder of modern lyric poetr...
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Signature of the Treaty of Sèvres - August 10, 1920
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The victory of the Allies in World War I imposed the signature of a series of treaties to end the war and legalize the defeat of the Central...
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Birth of Gurgen Mahari - August 1, 1903
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Modern Armenian literature had three major enemies: tuberculosis, Turkish genocide, and Stalinist repression. The so-called “second April 24...
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Birth of Heranush Arshagian - July 28, 1887
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Tuberculosis, the “romantic disease,” as it was regarded in the nineteenth century, had its own share of victims among Armenian poets from 1...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Signature of the Treaty of Lausanne - July 24, 1923
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It has been frequently said that the Treaty of Lausanne marked the burial of the Armenian Cause, even though neither Armenia nor Armenians ...
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