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  • Azad Balian

    I’m also from Balian Family and like to know more about the past of my family. Thanks and hope have answer Dalibor Ballian Family is originally from small town near Ankara. They were merchants and were very rich. After they moved to Smyrna. Antoine was born 1839 in that small town near Ankara, and we…

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  • Azad Balian

    I’m also from Balian Family and like to know more about the past of my family. Thanks and hope have answer Dalibor Ballian Family is originally from small town near Ankara. They were merchants and were very rich. After they moved to Smyrna. Antoine was born 1839 in that small town near Ankara, and we…

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  • Vahé Achikian

    The photo is of Megerdich Yakoubian, the Ishkhan (Qodjabashi) of Zeytoun’s Qarghalar Tagh ( Mahallé ), photo taken in Istanbul in January 1896. Meguerditch Agha Yaqoubian, 1806 – 1872 is photographed here in 1865, Istanbul, in the building of the Constantinople Armenian Patriarchate. Meguerditch Agha was the son of Astvadzadour Agha Yaqoubian and the grandson…

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  • Garabed Atamian

    Garabed Atamian (1872, Bolis – 1947) was a painter. He studied at the Murad Rafaelian College of Venice. HSH.

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  • Bedros Atamian

    Bedros Atamian (1849, Bolis – 1891) was an actor. HSH.

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  • Abelian-Armenian Theater Group gathered around Bedros Atamian’s tomb, Bolis 1908

    Abelian-Armenian Theater Group gathered around Bedros Atamian‘s tomb, Bolis 1908. This theater group was founded by Hovhannes Abelian. HSH.

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  • Calouste Gulbenkian

    Calouste Gulbenkian (1869, Bolis – 1955, Lisbon) was a businessman and philanthropist. HSH.

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  • Bedros Der-Krikorian

    Bedros Der-Krikorian, from Bolis, was a member of the Gugunian group. Armenian Diaspora Memory and Innovation collection.

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  • Zadig Khanzadian

    Zadig Khanzadian (1886, Smyrna -1980, France) was an engineer-hydrographer of the French Navy, cartographer and geographer. HSH.

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  • Students from Artvin in Constantinople, Akinian family

    Students from Artvin in Constantinople, Akinian family. Lolita Mirakova Akinian Private Coll.

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