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More than a decade earlier, after the battle of Mount Tabor in Palestine, Napoleon played host to an…

During his stay in Moscow Napoleon met representatives of the famous Lazarev (Lazarian) clan and promised to make…

The first woman physician in Ottoman Turkey was Dr. Zaruhi Kavalcayan. She received her education at the University…

Goddess Anahid means pristine, spotless and without shortcomings. The AN suffix means without (similar to the English “un”).…

Boghos de Constantinople, a high-ranking official and linguist in the foreign ministry of the Ottoman Empire, maintained that…

When you go to battle pray once, when you travel on sea pray twice, when you take a…

When you go to battle pray once, when you travel on sea pray twice, when you take a…

In the 14th century the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia was one of the few places where merchants from…

The first Armenian patriarch of Jerusalem was Abraham (638-669). He was installed by Caliph Omar Ibn al-Khattab after…

Between the 17th century and the demise of the Romanovs, there were at least 22 Armenian generals in…

The Armenian “oorpat” (Friday) drives from “arub shabbat”/”erweba dshab’ba” of Assyrian-Semitic, meaning “preparation”—in this case for Saturday. To…

The ancestors of Armenians in Ukraine and Poland came from the Crimea where they were so numerous that,…

Haroutyoun Khachatryan, a Soviet military physician during WWII, was posthumously awarded the “Righteous Among the Nations Award” by…

The Armenians obeyed the law under Saddam Hussein. When the Kurds of Zakho fled to avoid military service,…

Poverty is a shirt of fire. Better an experienced devil than an inexperienced angel. If you want to…

Giorgio Armani, with $9.6-billion in assets, is the richest fashion designer in the world and the most successful…

Philipp Bedrosovich Kirkorov is a Russian singer of Armenian-Bulgarian origin. His father was an Armenian singer. Kirkorov, born…