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Headlines for March 09, 2012THE ARMENIAN-SPEAKING MUSLIMS OF HAMSHEN: WHO ARE THEY? (PART 2)
By Vahan Ishkhanyan
(Part 1)
Başoba: Armenian Songs and Strong Tea
On the way up through the village, Harun stopped the car and picked up Mehmed who was returning from namaz prayer. "Yeah, he's a good ...10TH BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL KICKS OFF TOMORROW
The 10th British Film Festival will be held in Yerevan, Vanadzor, Gyumri and Berd from 27 February to 19 March. This year 14 films will be screened, out of which four are dedicated to Charles Dickens's ...KARABAKH: A 'FROZEN CONFLICT' THAT COULD BOIL OVER
By Lawrence Scott Sheets
One frigid day nearly 19 years ago, I found myself standing along a muddy, rutted road in the foothills of Azerbaijan's 3,000 meter-high Murov mountain range. Hundreds of Azerbaijani ...SHUSHAN PETROSYAN - "I'D LIKE TO BE THE FIRST HIPPIE MP"
Shushan Petrosyan, a popular singer in Armenia, told the press that she would jump at the chance to run for a parliament seat in the upcoming May elections.
"I'd be the first hippie MP and would break ...JERMUK CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS IMPACT OF AMULSAR GOLD MINE
A conference will take place in Jermuk on March 13 that will study the impact of the Amulsar gold mine on the town, noted for its natural mineral springs.
The conference is being organized by the Jermuk ...ERBD, ARMENIA, SIGN NEW ENERGY ACTION PLAN
Olivier Descamps, EBRD's Managing Director for Turkey, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and Armen Movsissyan, RA Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding ...U.S. SENATORS URGE TURKEY TO RETURN STOLEN CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
Senators Scott Brown (R-MA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) today introduced a bipartisan measure calling upon the Secretary of State to press Turkey to return stolen Christian church properties ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Areg was the 8th month in the old Armenian calendar (March 9 to April 7). This name is based on the Armenian for sun (arev). Armenians began the New Year with the awakening of nature: the first month of spring.
- 1799 Death of French armenologist Simon-Petros Lurden. He studied at St. Lazarus island and translated the Bible from Armenian to Latin, and created an Armenian-French dictionary. His works are kept in Munich's Royal Manuscript Library.
- 1801 Death in Tbilissi (Georgia) of H. Arghootyan.
- 1880 An Armenian publishing company is founded in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1899 Death of Petros Shanshyan (public figure) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1819.
- 1911 Birth, in Gyoomree, of the engineer and architect Edmon Tigranyan. He was the son of the composer Armen Tigranyan..
- 1914 France and Turkey sign an agreement on building roads and railways in Western Armenia.
- 1917 The Temporary Government annuls the Caucasian Viceroyship and creates the Transcaucasian Special Committee (Ozakom).
- 1920 Birth of Jansem (Hovhannes Semerjian) in Seleg (Turkey). Many of this artist's works are in European and US galleries.
- 1921 Signature of the French-Turkish Agreement on political, military, and economic cooperation.
- 1924 Death of poet Mateos Zarifyan.
- 1936 Birth of the Italian architect Breccia Fratadocci. He founded the "Mediaeval Armenian Architecture Research Center" in Rome. He organized the first exhibition of Armenian mediaeval architecture in Rome and Venice in 1968.
- 1983 The Ambassador of Turkey is killed in Belgrade. Raffi Elpekian and Harootyoon Levonian (Andranik Poghosyan) are arrested and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. They were both members of the "Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide", an underground political organization. Levonian was set free after four years in jail. Elpekian was freed after seven years.
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