Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Birth of Ivan Aivazovsky (July 29, 1817)

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Ivan Aivazovsky is considered one of the greatest marine painters in history. Famous Russian story writer Anton Chekhov popularized the w...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Assassination of Djemal Pasha (July 21, 1922)

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The Nemesis Operation, approved by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation in its 9th World Assembly, held in Yerevan in September-October 19...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Birth of Arshag Tchobanian (July 15, 1872)

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An influential literary critic and political activist, Arshag Tchobanian would become a sought-after name in the first half of the twenti...
Saturday, July 5, 2014

July 5, 1921: Mountainous Gharabagh Becomes Part of Soviet Azerbaijan

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The establishment of the Soviet regime in the Southern Caucasus between April 1920 and April of 1921 included the solution of ethno-ter...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

June 28, 1292: Fall of Hromkla

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Hromkla means “Roman Castle” (Qal'at al-Rum in Arabic, Rumkale in Turkish ). It was the Armenian name of a fortress built on the right b...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Death of Ghazaros Aghayan - June 20, 1911

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Ghazaros Aghayan was one of the important names in the literary and education awakening of Eastern Armenians in the late nineteenth cen...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Birth of Tigran Petrosian - June 17, 1929

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Armenia was not an independent state in the 1960s, when Tigran the Great was the king of the world. Tigran Petrosian put Armenia and A...