Armenians settled in Nagorno-Karabakh in the 7th century BCE. It was part of the ancient Armenian Kingdom formed in 331 BCE. 120,000 ethnic Armenians called it their home. Roughly 100,000 are now refugees. This is one of the most extreme cases of ethnic cleansing in history.
Israel’s supply of weaponry to Azerbaijan has nearly always followed by an escalation soon thereafter. W/ yesterday’s report about Blinken informing congresspeople about the possibility of new aggression by Azerbaijan, all signs now seem to point in that direction.
An Armenian manuscript from 1428, mentioning Shushi as a village in Amaras diocese of Artsakh
The Gospel was copied by bishop Manuel in 1428 in the village of Shushu/Shushi
Goharine Grigoryan was gathering supplies to go to a shelter when Azerbaijan shelled her home in Martakert. Her 13 year-old son was seriously injured, as was she. Her 16 year-old son was killed.
AZ has faced no consequences for the horrors it unleashed on Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Temple of Garni, standing proudly as the sole surviving Greco-Roman colonnaded building in Armenia and the former Soviet Union, continues to be shrouded in historical mystery. While its exact origins are still a subject of debate, it is most likely that the temple was
Araks Football Club from Constantinople, 1908.
Araks FC was a historic #Armenian football club that was founded in 1908 in #Constantinople (modern-day #Istanbul). The club was established by a group of Armenian youth who were passionate about #football and wanted to promote the
The monument “We and our mountains” is one of the most popular symbols of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and depicted on the emblem of the Republic of Artsakh, is located at the entrance to Stepanakert. It is also referred to as “grandparents” (Տատիկ-պապիկ, tatik-papik). 👇
Khachkars (decorated cross-stones typical of medieval #Christian Armenian art) from the #Armenian cemetery in Julfa, #Nakhijevan, Azerbaijan. This cemetery contained the largest surviving collection of Armenian khachkar, most dating to the 15th and 16th centuries. Destroyed by
Even today, 35 years after the bloody pogroms, as an ethnic Armenians we are banned from entering Azerbaijan.
[Aliyev-EU-gas-contacts manage to deceive
international community that Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh can safely take Azerbaijani citizenship]
💔🛑Armenian monastery of the 13th century in Nakhijevan. Photo taken in the 1980s.
The Azerbaijani authorities demolished this monastery in 1995.
Azerbaijan, a country that is 100 years old, is destroying historical monuments that are 800 years old.
#Armenia
Zvartnots Cathedral is located in the Ararat valley, 3km south of Echmiadzin, Armenia. This historical site once was a famous place of worship in the pre-Christian period. During the excavations, the foundation of an Urartian temple was revealed, as well as an altar for
Armenian Cross Stone (Khachkar), 1427 AD, Feodosia/Kafa.
During that time the city was the largest in population in the territory of modern Ukraine, 75,000 inhabitants of which 52,000 were Armenians, 16,000 Greeks, the rest mostly Italians.
#archaeohistories
Portrait of Ashot I of Armenia :
Ashot I Bagratuni (820-890 AD), was an Armenian king who oversaw the beginning of Armenia's second golden age (862-977 AD). Reign of Ashot I Bagratuni (885–890 AD).
#archaeohistories