MAIN PERIODS OF ARMENIAN POLITICAL HISTORY (CULTURALLY, ARMENIA HAS LASTED FOR NEARLY 3000 YEARS.) 1. URARTU – THIS CIVILIZATION LASTED FROM ROUGHLY 1000 TO 500 B.C. – IT WAS CENTERED AROUND LAKE VAN IN SOUTHWESTERN TURKEY. – THIS PERIOD IN ARMENIAN HISTORY IS KNOWN AS THE PROTO-ARMENIAN PERIOD (JUST BEFORE ARMENIA WAS 100% ARMENIAN)….
Month: February 2011
BACKGROUND ON ARMENIAN CULTURE
BACKGROUND ON ARMENIAN CULTURE THERE IS AN ARMENIA WHICH WAS PART OF RUSSIA UNTIL 1991. THIS COMING YEAR (2011) WILL MARK 20 YEARS OF ARMENIAN INDEPENDENCE. THERE ARE ARMENIANS ALL OVER THE WORLD. 2 TYPES OF ARMENIANS THERE ARE 2 TYPES OF ARMENIANS: A.) THE 3 MILLION LIVING WITHIN ARMENIA B.) THE 6 MILLION LIVING…
THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE THE WORD GENOCIDE CONSISTS OF TWO ROOT WORDS. IN GREEK GENOST MEANS FAMILY AND CIDE IS LATIN FOR KILLING. THE TERM GENOCIDE CAME ABOUT IN 1943 BY RAPHAEL LEMKIN WHO WAS A LAWYER OF JEWISH DESCENT IN POLAND. HE LOST MUCH OF HIS FAMILY IN THE HOLOCAUST. WHEN HE DEVELOPED THE TERM,…