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1826 9 10
End of the heroic defense of Fort Shooshee (Artsakh).

1869 9 10
Birth of cleric and ethno-musicologist Komitas (Soghomon Soghomonyan) in Kutina (Western Armenia). He became mentally ill after witnessing the armenian Genocide perpetrated by Turkey. He died in Paris in 1935.

1890 9 10
Birth of Franz Werfel in Prague (Austrian novelist). He wrote "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" (1933), a best-selling epic tale of armenian resistance to the Tur... Read More

1701 9 8
Creation of the Mkhitarist Congregation (Armenian Catholic) in Costantinople.

1814 9 8
Birth of Aghasi Aghbar (troubadour). He died in 1844.

1855 9 8
End of the ten-month defense of Sebastopol.

1914 9 8
Creation of the armenian Volunteer Brigade.... Read More

493 9 7
Death of st. Sahak Partev, Catholicos of All Armenians. He was born on this day 80 years earlier.

1878 9 7
The Treaty of Berlin returns Gareen (Western Armenia) to Turkey and puts the armenian Reforms in Western Armenia in jeopardy.

1925 9 7
Birth of Aghasi Aivazyan (writer).

2002 9 7
Arkady Gukasian inaugurated as president of Artsakh for a second term.... Read More

1831 9 6
Birth of Khoren Galfayan - Nar Pey - (public figure) in Constantinople. He died in 1892.

1934 9 6
Opening of Ghapan's ore (copper/molybdenum) concentration plant.

1956 9 6
Socialist twinning of Yerevan and Kiev (Ukrainian SSR).

1965 9 6
The International Conference on the Theory of Analytical Functions opens in Yerevan.... Read More

Some one asked me yesterday, Why I/We should be proud to being Armenian?

This was my answer,

Throughout history, Armenia has been a battlefield for many invaders and contending ‎empires, and a bridge for many cultures and civilizations. During the past 2,700 years, ‎Armenia was conquered by the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire, the ‎Byzantines, Arabs, Mongols, Tatars, Ottomans, Persians, and Russians. armenian kingdoms, ‎principalities, an... Read More

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