1. Barack Obama's win equals the Armenians' win
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... mate with a 35-year pro-Armenian track record," Hachikian said. "We are close to the day when an American president finally ends nearly a century of U.S. complicity in Turkey's denials." The Armenian ...

2. New evidence of Armenian Genocide found
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... the remaining photos of this collection which will sturdily assist the Institute’s efforts to demonstrate the complete picture of the first genocide of the 20th century.   Source: http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=27458 ...

3. Rep. Royce: U.S. should go on record officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide
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... becoming one of the 20th Century’s darkest chapters. While acknowledging the role played by the Ottoman Empire in killing Armenians, some have laid doubt to the claim of genocide, citing the subsequent ...

4. Nagorno-Karabakh and Independence
(Armenians/History)

... turn of the century) raided arsenals and police stations to arm themselves for the coming battles. In July Gorbachev demanded immediate disarmament of the Armenian militias and threatened military intervention ...

5. The Communist Era
(Armenians/History)

... Statues of Armenian national heroes were erected, including one of Saint Vartan, the fifth-century defender of Armenian Christianity. Even as Armenia continued its transformation from a basically agrarian ...

6. Between Russia and Turkey
(Armenians/History)

Between Russia and Turkey Beginning in the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire played a growing role in determining the fate of the Armenians, although those in Anatolia remained under Turkish control, ...

7. The Middle Ages
(Armenians/History)

... degrees of autonomy granted by the Arabs. Then, after eleventh-century invasions from the west by the Byzantine Greeks and from the east by the Seljuk Turks, the independent kingdoms in Armenia proper ...

8. Early Christianity
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... Christianity on behalf of the Eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire). Early in the fifth century A.D., Saint Mesrop, also known as Mashtots, devised an alphabet for the Armenian Language, and religious ...

9. The Ancient Period
(Armenians/History)

... first mentioned the Armenians in the mid-fifth century B.C. Ruled for many centuries by the Persians, Armenia became a buffer state between the Greeks and Romans to the west and the Persians and Arabs ...