NEW PUBLICATION ANI 1050 |
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| By the end of 2011 RAA will have 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 WESTERN ARNENIA |
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| In 2011 a group of RAA members went on an almost one-month research trip to Western Armenia, where they carried out studies in the districts of Kars, Bash-Shoragyal, Kaghzvan, Surmalu, Van, Gyavash, Khizan, Karjkan, Baghesh, Khlat and Artzke. | |
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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NEW PUBLICATION ì²ðÒø |
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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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