Thursday, June 30, 2016

Birth of Mher Mkrtchyan (July 4, 1930)

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Mher Mkrtchyan was one of the greatest Armenian actors of the Soviet period. Son of survivors of the Armenian Genocide, he was bo...
Friday, June 24, 2016

The Council of Shahapivan (June 24, 444 A.D.)

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Following its participation in the first three Ecumenical Councils (Nicaea, Constantinople, and Ephesus) between 325 and 431, the Armenian C...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the European Parliament (June 18, 1987)

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Turkey has been in a dialogue with Europe since the 1940s. In 1948 Turkey was one of the founding members of the European Organization of Ec...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Death of Jacques de Morgan (June 14, 1924)

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Jean-Jacques de Morgan was born in Huisseau-sir-Cosson, in the French department of Loir-et-Cher, on June 3, 1857. The family environment wa...
Saturday, June 4, 2016

Death of Bedros Atamian (June 4, 1891)

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Bedros Atamian was the greatest tragic actor in the Armenian theater during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Born on Decemb...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Battle of Avarayr (May 26, 451)

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Every year we celebrate the Feast of Vartanantz (Վարդանանց տօն, Vartanantz don) on the last Thursday before the beginning of Great Lent, whi...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Beginning of the Council of Nicea (May 20, 325)

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The Council of Nicea (the first convened in that city) was an assembly of 318 Christian bishops gathered in that city of Bithynia (today Izn...