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Yahoo’s Global News Anchor Katie Couric on Genocide
By Kaye Foley, Yahoo News, 24 April 2014 The 100th anniversary of the massacre of Armenians under the…
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Yoghourt of Armenian Origin
Yoghourt and byproducts madzun, tan are of Armenian origin. Yoghourt is the corruption of “youghort”=yough (fat, fatty in…
Accordion in Venice Patented by Cyril Demian
The accordion, which was invented in Venice, was patented in 1829 by Cyril Demian, an Armenian. The city…
Garabedian Served in the American Civil War
Khachadour P. Garabedian (born in Rodosto, 1836) was the only Armenian to serve in the American Civil War.…
Armenians in Crimea
Between 1895 and 1896 some 150 Medieval Armenian gravestones were discovered in Crimea. The earliest two were from…
Queen of England Ancestors Lived in Armenia
In 2001 history professor Suren Ayvazian of Yerevan University wrote to Queen Elizabeth II demanding the return of…
Number of Repatriates
Between 1921 and 1936 some 42,000 Diaspora Armenians settled in Armenia. After WWII another 100,000 Armenians settled in…
Armenia Brain of Map
A Medieval map, now at the Israel Museum, depicts the Middle East, Iran, and India as a winged…
Napoleon and Armenians
After Napoleon’s bloody Battle of Mount Tabor (1799) against the Memluks in Palestine, an Armenian deputation met the…
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