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IF ARMENIA IS SLOW, NORTH-SOUTH MAY GO THROUGH AZERBAIJAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
“The North-South project is real and urgent. Ancient Roman leaders built roads first of all. Presently, communications are of huge importance. If Armenia is slow the project may ...

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1870 Birth of Nerses Ashtaraketsee the Fifth, later to become Catholicos and a figure of the National Liberal Movement. In 1814, while leader of the See of Tbilisi (Georgia), he founded the Nersessyan School. (He died in 1957).
1885 The Tsar closes Armenian Parish Schools in the Caucasus.
1891 The Tsar intensifies the national persecution of Armenians.
1894 Birth of Hambardsoom Khachanyan, famous actor of the Armenian stage.
1898 Birth of writer and critic Shavarsh Nardoonee. He died in 1968.
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1925 Publication of the Large Soviet Encyclopedia.
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