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| From 8 February until 2 March 2011, RAA research team was busy with work in India—a country which has been home to one of the most important and oldest communities of the Armenian Diaspora. Studies were conducted in Delhi, Agra, Madras, Gwalior, Allahabad, Calcutta, Hayderabad, Cochin, Mumbai and Surat Cities. | |
RESEARCH TRIP IRAN |
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| Between 11 June and 10 July 2011, the members of RAA Foundation and the representatives of Artak Manukian Museum, Teheran, jointly made a research trip. | |
NEW PUBLICATION ANI 1050 |
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| RAA has published a three-language album dedicated to the 1050th anniversary of proclaiming Ani capital of Armenia. It will enable readers to get acquainted with the semi-ruined and decrepit monuments still surviving in the ghost city, together with those the sites of which are hardly discernible today. The book contains the general plan of the city site together with about 670 photographs, measurements, reconstructions, etc. |
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RESEARCH TRIP ARTSAKH |
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| Within research unfolded in Artsakh, between 26 March and 2 April 2011, some of RAA members, architect Ashot Hakobian, orientologist Raffi Kortoshian, Anush Hambardzumian, who does camerawork during RAA scientific expeditions, and Samvel Karapetian, carried out studies of Armenian historical monuments in Martakert District of the Republic of Artsakh. Parallel with this, in the framework of the homeland cognizance programme of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Armenia, S. Karapetian delivered a lecture for over 1,000 soldiers of the military unit of Mataghis located in the same district. It was accompanied with the documentary exposing the destruction of Jugha Cemetery, and a film on Aghbak District of Western Armenia (both produced by RAA). | |
NEW PUBLICATION JAVAKHK by Samvel Karapetian |
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| Now the English version of the book of Javakhk (2006) is available. | |
NEW PUBLICATION COLLECTED MEMOIRS |
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| Dedicated to the authors of these memoirs, who were lucky enough to be born in their native land, but were doomed to become its last Mohicans by some evil force, and spent their earthly lives in incessant suffering, ever haunted by the vision of their unforgettable homeland. The authors of these memoirs are the descendants of large families which fell victim to the Armenian Genocide of 1915?people who were saved from extermination only by some miracle. They rose frm their dear ones ashes, grew up and started their own families with their children and grandchildren, although the anguish gnawing at their homesick hearts was never soothed. In Armenian |
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PRESENTATION |
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On 13 October 2011, the presentation of the website of ARMENIACA was held in Tumo Centre, Yerevan. |
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EXHIBITION |
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AZERBAIJAN
AN ENEMY OF CIVILISATION
The opening is at15 P.M. on 10 May Address: 40 Moskovian Str., Yerevan
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PRESENTATION |
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OF RAA WORKS PUBLISHED BETWEEN 2009 and 2011
to be held
at 2 p.m. on 22 April Address: No. 72 Terian Street, Yerevan, Armenia
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| VARDZK No. 4 includes articles based on research carried out by some of RAA members and treating the following issues: falsification of information on the sign-boards of monuments in Western Armenia; the positive and negative sides of monument restoration in the same part of Historical Armenia; newly-discovered specimens of Armenian cryptography; Tzarakar, one of the cut-in-rock monasteries of medieval Armenian architecture, the location of which was unknown until very recently; Charektar Monastic Complex in Artsakh, where excavations and studies have been implemented, and the demography of Kesab District, a ''suburb'' of Cilicia, for a period of a century. |
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| The Armenian Highland, which has been inhabited by Armenians since time immemorial, and which used to be home to the kingdoms of Metz Hayk (Armenia Major) and Pokr Hayk (Armenia Minor), abounds in a wide variety of centuries-old historical monuments created by its natives. In recent 8 to 9 decades (since 1920), the aforementioned states neighbouring Armenia have shown different approaches to the issue of the preservation of Armenian historical monuments-with the exception of Iran, the other three of them have not ever taken any steps towards the preservation of Armenian historical monuments; moreover, they have been subjected to premeditated demolition in these countries. |
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| In the course of hteir centuries-old history, the Armenians have built and created a wide variety of cultural monuments most of which are situated in the territory of Armenia, the historical cradle of the Armenian nation. In their frenzy of annihilating everyhting Armenian, the Turkish authorities have already totally wiped out thousands of centuries-old Armenian historical monuments that are justly considered as forming an inseparable part of human civilization. The exent of the premeditated atrocities perpetrated against Armenian monuments, and the fact that they are always carefully planned by the Turkish Government prove that they are carrying on the genocide of the Armenian nation, this time targeting their cultural haritage. | |
NEW PUBLICATION THE ISLAMIC MONUMENTS OF THE ARMENIAN ARCHITECTURE OF ARTSAKH |
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| During the foreign domination of Armenia, outstanding Armenian masons were often forced into carrying out different tasks within the construction activity of this or that ruler. Applying their knowledge of architecture, as well as their creative mind and efforts, Armenian masters were compelled to build castles, palaces, mosques, mausoleums, bridges, caravanserais and residential buildings for their foreign lords, all of these structures revealing the influence of Armenian architecture, and bearing the apparent imprint of its traditional features.
we come to the conclusion that all the monuments, erected through the application of Armenian masters' knowledge and skills, and reflecting their perception of art, the monuments constructed in accordance with the principles and logic of Armenian architecture and building art, refined over and over in the course of many millennia, form an integral part of the national architecture of Armenia, and particularly, of Artsakh. |
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NEW PUBLICATION THE WONDERS OF ARTSAKH |
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| Artsakh is one of the ancient parts of the Armenian Homeland, sacred and unsurpassed in its beauty, abounding in countless wonders created by nature and man Nourished by their native soil, endowed with the blessings of nature, throughout many millennia, the Armenians of Artsakh enriched it with countless specimens of man’s creative mind, by building their cultural heritage—deeply national in essence—that dates as far back as the times of polytheism and worship of Nature, and reaches the Christian era. Notwithstanding the invasions following one another, and the provisional domination of foreign rulers, the Armenians of Artsakh remained attached to their land, made sacred with their ancestors’ graves and relics. They have never ceased building monuments each of which has its own peculiar story. | |
ARMENIA |
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| ...Like the holy mountain Ararat, that has two peaks, i.e. Greater and Smaller Ararats, the Armenian nation—born as a result of the mergence of different Armenian-speaking tribes belonging to the Indo-European language family—simultaneously established two state entities in its homeland, Metz Hayk (Armenia Maior) and Pokr Hayk (Armenia Minor). ... | |
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In Memory of My Brother and Teacher Samvel Karapetian Head of the Yerevan Office of RAA NGO |
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Armen Haghnazarian, a rare individual whose infinite love of homeland and sense of duty towards his nation made him the forerunner of a mission the fulfillment of which has preserved Armenian national identity throughout many millennia. He was born (5 May 1941) in the family of Hovhanes Haghnazarian, a native of Agulis (in Nakhijevan at present annexed to Azerbaijan) and the only survivor from a large family that had been driven away from their home under the threat of extermination.More...
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| ...the journal is symbolically named Vardzk, namely Duty of Soul, in token of the moral obligation of the present and coming generations of Armenians to sacredly preserve the heritage bequeathed by their ancestors with full understanding of their mission to gradually make it known to the public at large. The first edition of the Vardzk semi-annual journal is entirely dedicated to Dr. Armen Hakhnazarian's ever living memory in commemoration of the first anniversary of his death. | |
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| P R I Z E S In December 2008 the site www.armenianarchitecture.am w o n |
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T H E F I R S T P R I Z E at the Third Pan-Armenian Contest of Electronic Content |
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N O M I N A T I O N Ü P R I Z E as the winner in the nomination Electronic Culture |
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| AZERBAIJAN'S AMBASSADOR TO GEORGIA LYING LIKE HIS AMERICAN COUNTERPART |
| In December 2005, more than a 100 soldiers of the Azerbaijani army totally annihilated the historical Armenian cemetery of Julfa (Jugha' in Armenian), located in the Autonomous Republic of Nakhijevan, Azerbaijan. Armed with heavy hammers, they reduced over 3,000 ornate khachkars to a heap of crushed pieces. World mass media exposed and widely condemned that vandalism. On 9 January 2006, Azerbaijan's ambassador to the United States... More... |
| NAKHIJEVAN. A historical and geographical survey. |
| Nakhijevan is situated in the area between the mountain range of Zangezur and the river Arax. It borders on the Republic of Armenia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 1931 Turkey exchanged some territory with Iran and acquired a common frontier with Nakhijevan. More... |
| TWO RECENTLY_REVEALED ACTS OF VANDALISM COMMITTED BY THE AZERBAIJANIAN AUTHORITIES |
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The photographs taken by Frederic Berlaimont in March 2007 expose two new acts of vandalism perpetrated against the Armenian churches... More... |
