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The Epic of Sasun: Armenian Apocalypse [PDF]
Middle Eastern Studies, 2014 This chapter concerns the fourth and last of the great heroes of the line of Sasun, "Little" Mher (Mithra), son of the slain David. Mithra, then, merits particular attention in the discussion of apocalyptic in Armenia. The individual recitations of variant narratives enable one to discover details that the artificial, composite texts obscure.
Miller, Owen Robert
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The 1894 Sasun Massacre: Revisiting the Number of Victims
Études Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2022 In the summer of 1894, the Armenians of several villages in Sasun, a region in the Ottoman province of Bitlis, refused to pay government taxes unless the state protected them from the extortion and illegal taxation levied by local Kurdish chieftains. The
Tigran Martirosyan
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Rethinking the Violence in the Sasun Mountains (1893-1894)
Études Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2018 In the late summer of 1894, Ottoman soldiers murdered thousands of Armenians in the Sasun mountains. This extreme state violence must be understood as part of a much broader phenomenon: the efforts of the Ottoman Empire to control its upland spaces ...
Owen Miller
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DAVID OF SASUN BY HOVHANNES TUMANYAN: FROM TEXT TO VISUALIZATION [PDF]
Children's Readings: Studies in Children's Literature, 2023 The article analyses the cultural context of the poem "David of Sasun". On the basis of critical discourse analysis, semiotics (C. S. Pearce) and reconstruction of historical memory the perception of the city of Sasun is studied, the peculiarities of historical memory and images of the enemy are reconstructed.
Tigran Simyan, Albert Makaryan
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About the Heroic Image in the Epic «David of Sasun»
Litera, 2022 The article is devoted to the heroic image in the national epic «David of Sasun», which is an ancient Armenian heroic epic, as well as the pinnacle of Armenian classical folk literature. The subject of the study is the heroic image of four generations of Sasun.
Azhen Mu
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Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population. [PDF]
Am J Hum GenetWe introduce a sizable (n = 34) whole-genome dataset on Armenians, a population inhabiting the region in West Asia known as the Armenian highlands. Equipped with this genetic data, we conducted a whole-genome study of Armenians and deciphered their fine ...
Hovhannisyan A +15 more
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Gitakan TeghekagirMushegh Galshoyan as a distinguished figure of the newest period of the Armenian literature, depicts the fates of the Sasun dwellers who had to flee from Western Armenia to Eastern Armenia during the Armenian Genocide in his story collection "Clouds of Mountain Maruta". People were united by one common goal: they settled down and built houses, but they
A. Meliksetyan
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Coverage of the situation of Western Armenians in Egyptian-Armenian press (1899-1904) [PDF]
Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti, 2023 The developing relations of production caused a great revival in the economic life of Egypt starting with the second half of the 19th century. Armenians who migrated to Egypt took an active part in the development of the country's economic and cultural ...
Myasnik Esoyan
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Yakın Dönem Türkiye Araştırmaları, 2022 One of the important parts of the orientalist “grand narrative” that provides public legitimacy for the intervention of Western states in the internal affairs of the Ottoman Empire is the biased representation of the Armenian revolts in the Western press.
Mehmet Akif Okur, Mustafa Onur Tetik
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Different waves and directions of Neolithic migrations in the Armenian Highland. [PDF]
Investig Genet, 2014 Background: The peopling of Europe and the nature of the Neolithic agricultural migration as a primary issue in the modern human colonization of the globe is still widely debated.
Hovhannisyan A +6 more
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