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- Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:31 am
- Forum: Find your Hyerenagits
- Topic: Dikranagerd.Tigranocerta.Amida.Diyarbekir
- Replies: 35
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Re: Dikranagerd.Tigranocerta.Amida.Diyarbekir
Armenian heritage were presumed guilty and either were forced to leave or were desposed of traumaticallyPenny Auctions | Penny Auction Sites Deported, each village and city attempted to maintain its social ties by building compatriotic societies to help one another
- Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:23 am
- Forum: Find your Hyerenagits
- Topic: Aintab
- Replies: 19
- Views: 40076
Re: Aintab
Armenian protestants are a large and rich community, which suffered less in the massacre of 1895 than the Gregorians. There is a small Episcopalian body, which has a large unfinished church, and a schismatic "catholicos," who has vainly tried to gain acceptance into the Anglican communion
- Sun Jul 10, 2011 12:19 am
- Forum: First Armenians in America
- Topic: First Armenians in the United States
- Replies: 24
- Views: 77745
Re: First Armenians in the United States
Fresno may be best known to many Armenians as the birthplace of William Saroyan—the great Armenian-American author. A number of Saroyan related organizations, such as the William Saroyan Society, are still based out of Fresno, and the Fresno Metropolitan Museum is home to a permanent exhibit of Saro...
- Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:46 pm
- Forum: Find your Hyerenagits
- Topic: Aintab
- Replies: 19
- Views: 40076
Re: Aintab
There is also a flourishing Franciscan mission. Striped cloths and pekmez, a sweet paste made from grapes, are the principal manufactures; and tobacco and cereals the principal cultures. The town is unusually well and solidly built, good stone being obtained near at hand. The Moslem inhabitants are ...
- Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:19 pm
- Forum: First Armenians in America
- Topic: Fresno Armenians
- Replies: 33
- Views: 55626
Re: Fresno Armenians
Fresno may be best known to many Armenians as the birthplace of William Saroyan—the great Armenian-American author. A number of Saroyan related organizations, such as the William Saroyan Society, are still based out of Fresno, and the Fresno Metropolitan Museum is home to a permanent exhibit of Saro...
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 2:27 am
- Forum: Family Name Origin
- Topic: Hagopian/Agopian
- Replies: 16
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Re: Hagopian/Agopian
Armenian: patronymic from the personal name Hagop, classical Armenian YakoAudio Mastering Services |Music Mastering Services
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 1:10 am
- Forum: Find your Hyerenagits
- Topic: Dikranagerd.Tigranocerta.Amida.Diyarbekir
- Replies: 35
- Views: 71604
Re: Dikranagerd.Tigranocerta.Amida.Diyarbekir
Tigranakert quickly became a very important commercial, as well as cultural center of the Near East. The magnificent theater that was established by the Emperor, of which he was an avid devotee, conducted dramas and comedies mostly played by Greek as well as Armenian actors.Silver bullion
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:36 am
- Forum: Find your Hyerenagits
- Topic: Stanoz - Istanos (west Ankara)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 78603
Re: Stanoz - Istanos (west Ankara)
Ancyra's importance rested on the fact was that it was the junction point where the roads in northern Anatolia running north-south and east-west intersected. The great imperial road running east passed through Ankara and a succession of emperors and their armies came this way Penny Auctions | Penny ...
- Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:17 am
- Forum: Find your Hyerenagits
- Topic: Aintab
- Replies: 19
- Views: 40076
Re: Aintab
The site of Douche, famous for its worship of Baal (Zeus Dolichenus), adopted by the Seleucids and eventually spread all over the Roman empire, lies at Duluk, two hours N.W.; but nothing is to be seen there except a mound. The place was probably of Hittite origin and does not appear to have been set...
- Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:04 am
- Forum: First Armenians in America
- Topic: First Armenians in the United States
- Replies: 24
- Views: 77745
Re: First Armenians in the United States
Armenia Town (aka Little Armenia) was in the making. Many Armenians fleeing the homeland settled on the eastern coast of the US, Penny Auctions | Penny Auction Sites but eventually moved to Fresno for the myriad of opportunities, as well as the Mediterranean like weather which resembled what many we...
- Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:40 am
- Forum: First Armenians in America
- Topic: Fresno Armenians
- Replies: 33
- Views: 55626
Re: Fresno Armenians
Fresno's Armenian is estimated at about 6,000 and about 10,000 for all of Fresno County . A constant reminder of the Armenian people's contributions and presence in Fresno is the life-sized monument of David of Sassoon. This beautiful piece of public art was donated to the city by Armenians in 1970,...
- Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:13 am
- Forum: Find your Hyerenagits
- Topic: Evereg
- Replies: 16
- Views: 45270
Re: Evereg
Many Americans with ethnic Armenian heritage originally came from a city or village in Anatolia, mostly from the Cilician plains or the Armenian Plateau.Evereg-Fenesse were twin cities on the outskirts of Cilicia, properly in Cappadoccia. Both were predominately ethnically Armenian though living und...
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:34 pm
- Forum: Family Name Origin
- Topic: the BOYAJIAN name
- Replies: 16
- Views: 40028
Re: the BOYAJIAN name
In Accordingly Armenian patronymic from Turkish basmaci, an occupational name for a maker or seller of textiles, from basma ‘printed textile’.Penis Enhancement|Bigger Penis