Tag : Asia Minor
Alexandre Vladesco
Avédis Ekizian was the trustee of Surp Lusavorçyan hospital and financed the construction of the chapel of the same name in 1842.The brothers Hovhannes and Agop Spartali financed the reconstruction of this hospital which had burned down in 1845. From that moment it was run as a charity, it ...
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And now the Young Turks, who had adopted so many of Abdul Hamid’s ideas, also made his Armenian policy their own
For ten years the Turkish Empire had been undergoing a process of dissolution, and had now reached a state of decrepitude that had left it an easy prey to German diplomacy. In order to understand ...
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But even in March, 1914, the Germans had pretty well tightened their hold on Turkey (1918)
But even in March, 1914, the Germans had pretty well tightened their hold on Turkey. Liman von Sanders, who had arrived in December, had become the predominant influence in the Turkish army. At first Von Sanders’ appointment aroused no particular hostility, for German missions had been called ...
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Varouj Mavlian
Could someone put a date to the above photograph of Armenian scouts with their Scout master (Scoutabed) in Smyrna ? I will appreciate it very much.
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Kimberly Francev
My sister and I are looking for any information about Arshaluis and Zakar Beykozian, our grandmother and great uncle, who were orphans in Tbrotsaser and Uskudar Orphanages in 1919. Their parents were Kenovape (or Kenovare) and Yervant Beykozian of Constantinople. We would appreciate any ...
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Armen Lubin in Luxembourg gardens, Paris 1925
Armen Lubin in Luxembourg gardens, Paris 1925. Armen ...
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Khrimian was a strong and industrious man, and his inauguration meant the raising of Etchmiadzin to a powerful religious institution (1896)
A vast multitude of Armenians surged around the walls of the sacred edifice, and all awaited in great anxiety to hear of the result of the balloting. It was a touching spectacle. Men and women, the young and the old, wept like children as their voices grew hoarse by shouting ” Papa ! Papa ...
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British selfishness and greed has been maintaining this curse of Turkish domination, which was doomed to perish forty-three years ago (1896)
While Europe has been progressing in civilization the Ottoman Empire has remained in its slumber of medieval times. The world has undergone a revolution, yet the Turk is in his primitive barbarity, with all his Tartar instincts. The Ottoman Empire has been an anachronism in the nineteenth ...
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