Tag : Armenian last names

Armenian last names (family names) bear the suffix -ian, -iants, -ants,
-iantz, -yan, -ents, -entz, -ontz or -ouni.

The difficulty of the host countries in understanding the Armenian sounds may have caused changes to the Armenian last names. The spoliation of properties and destruction of documents during the Armenian Genocide may have caused the alteration or the loss of the Armenian last name.

Victoria Butler-Sloss

Hi and thank you for this. have written a book in which Mgrdich appears in a chapter. however, I have some family member names as different. I have his brothers named as Kevork, Hovannes, Sarkis, Nerses (and maybe Levon, although he is not in story). I also have his sister as Mariam and his wife ...
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Yervand Gasparyan

this is my grandfather and my uncle Shoghik Gasparyan Hello! This is my great-grandfather. My dad is named after the son and my uncle is named after the father, his grandfather. If it is possible could we please get in contact to see if you have more pictures of my family. Thank you very much!
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Vahé Achikian

Sarkis Gougounian was one of the heroes of the “Khanasor Arshavank” or The Khanasor invasion that took place in the 1890’s against the Mazrik tribe of Kurds who had massacred scores of local Armenians in the Tarone-Tourouperan province.
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Vahé Achikian

The carpenters are members of the Tcholaqian family of Yuqari Mahalle ( Verin Tagh) of Zeytoun. The one in the middle is the elder brother of Aram Bey Tcholaqian, the hero Mesrop Agha Tcholaqian of the 1895 Grand Uprising of Zeytun who also participated in the March-April 1915 resistance battle ...
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Vahé Achikian

The Zeytountsi woman above has been identified ( based on information from G. Doevlet’s book Sandokh published in 1946, Paris ) as the resistance fighter Tervanda Arapkhanian. She had been one of the brave Armenian women of Zeytoun who was in charge of keeping the captured Turkish soldiers and ...
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