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1 For example, a community has existed for over a millennium in the Holy Land, and one of the four quarters of the walled old city of Jerusalem has been called the ________.

2 The Armenians developed close social, cultural, military, and religious ties with nearby Crusader States, but eventually succumbed to the ________ invaders.

3 The first Armenian churches were built on the orders of ________, and were often built on top of pagan temples, and imitated some aspects of Armenian pre-Christian architecture.

4 Armenians are also present in every country in Latin America, with the largest concentrations being found in Brazil, ________, Uruguay, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

5 What is the population of Armenians?

6 The Armenians (Armenian: հայեր, hayer) are a nation and ethnic group which originated in the ________ and the Armenian Highland.

7 In football, their most successful team was Yerevan's FC Ararat, which had claimed most of the Soviet championships in the 70s and had also gone to post victories against professional clubs like ________ in the Euro cup.

8 What region does Armenians belong to?

9 What is the metropolitican population of Armenians?

10 What does the following picture show?  St. Mesrob Mashtots invented the Armenian alphabet in the year 406.   Armenian-populated regions in Anatolia and the Transcaucasus in the year 1896.   Armenian-populated regions in Anatolia and the Transcaucasus in the year 1896.   Traditional Armenian Dance

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in addition to designing postage stamps (pictured), Armenian painter Arshak Fetvadjian also painted the monuments of the medieval Armenian city of Ani?
  • prominent Soviet Armenian finswimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saved 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen from a dam into the Erevan reservoir?
  • the Byzantine theme of Lykandos, which played an important role in the Byzantine–Arab wars of the early 10th century, was founded by Melias, an Armenian prince, and settled by Armenians?
  • Vakıflı is the only ethnic Armenian village in Turkey?
  • Tigranakert was a center of Armenian culture until the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when the population was eradicated and replaced by Kurds?
  • Armenian Byzantinist Hrach Bartikyan wrote the introductions and translated select writings of Procopius, Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, and John Scylitzes from Greek into Armenian?
  • Armenian merchant Coja Petrus Uscan built the first ever bridge across the Adyar River in Madras?
  • Dushanbe riots in 1990 were sparked by the rumour that a couple of thousand Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan had been resettled to Dushanbe?
  • 13th-century Armenian historian and scholar Vardan Areveltsi was a religious adviser to Doquz Khatun, the wife of Ilkhanate Mongol leader Hulagu Khan?
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