During World War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Greek genocide ( especially in Pontus ), and the Assyrian Genocide almost entirely removed the ancient communities of Armenian and Assyrian populations in Anatolia, as well as a large part of its ethnic Greek population.

Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1. 5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

However, the dispute over the Armenian Genocide and the recent war over Nagorno-Karabakh have created tense relations with two of its immediate neighbors, Azerbaijan and Turkey.

Political map showing states which have officially recognized the Armenian Genocide.

Countries that officially recognize the Armenian genocide include Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Vatican City and Venezuela ; additionally, some regional governments of countries recognize the Armenian genocide, such as New South Wales in Australia and Wales in the United Kingdom, also officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

* 1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

* Acknowledge the Armenian Genocide of the early 1900s.

Finkelstein scathingly compared the media treatment of the Holocaust and the media treatment of other genocides such as the Holodomor and the Armenian Genocide, particularly by members of what he calls " The Holocaust Industry ".

The purpose of the conference was to critically analyze the official Turkish view of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 ; a taboo subject in Turkey.

* Armenian Genocide denial

Civilian casualties include the Armenian Genocide, and it is debated if this event should be included with war losses.

The saint's left hand is allegedly preserved in the Armenian Apostolic Church of St. John at Chinsurah, West Bengal, where each year on " Chinsurah Day " in January it blesses the Armenians of Calcutta.

The first recorded secular celebration of the Saints Cyril and Methodius Day as the " Day of the Bulgarian script ", as it is traditionally accepted by Bulgarian history, was held in the town of Plovdiv on 11 May 1851, when a local Bulgarian school was named " Saints Cyril and Methodius ", both acts on the initiative of the prominent Bulgarian educator Nayden Gerov, although an Armenian traveller mentioned his visit at the " celebration of the Bulgarian script " in the town of Shumen on 22 May 1803.

* January 6 – Christmas Day ( Celebrated by the Armenian Church )

On February 21, 2009 International Mother Language Day has been marked with the publication of a new edition of the " Atlas of the World ’ s Languages in Danger " by UNESCO where the Western Armenian language in Turkey is defined as a definitely endangered language.

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The leading Azerbaijani Russian-language news website Day. az called on its readers to edit the Russian Wikipedia article on Safarov to prevent it from the possible " revenge of Armenian nationalists.

These include the Ferntree Gully Seventh Day Adventist Church in Upper Ferntree Gully, Hills Christian Life Church, Ferntree Gully Baptist Church, Ferntree Gully Independent Baptist Church, Armenian Catholic Church, Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church, Foothills Community Church, Knoxfield Church of Christ, Olive Branch Fellowship, Salvation Army and Ferntree Gully Uniting Church.

A tie-in album, also called Rome Wasn't Burned In A Day, was released to mark the event and included an " eight-minute long Armenian epic " called " Shrine of the Black Youth ( Tukh Manukh )".

With an October 30, 2007 Op-Ed blog entitled " SF's Needs to Kill Its Armenian Genocide Resolution ", Benjamin Wachs stirred controversy due to remarks deemed to be extremely offensive by descendants of survivors of the genocide by pondering what gift would most appropriate for his girlfriend to celebrate Armenian Genocide Day.

In Armenia, staff from the Ministry of Agriculture, non-governmental organizations, Armenian State Agriculture University, the donor community, international organizations, and the mass media have participated in the World Food Day ceremony.

On Armenian Independence Day September 23, 2007, it was discovered that the plaque was missing.

Seth is commemorated as one of the Holy Forefathers in the Calendar of Saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church, along with Adam, Abel, and others, with a feast day on July 26.

In Armenian, Monday is ( Erkushabti ) literally meaning 2nd day of the week, Tuesday ( Erekshabti ) 3rd day, Wednesday ( Chorekshabti ) 4th day, Thursday ( Hingshabti ) 5th day.

Enoch is not counted as a saint in Roman Catholic tradition, though Enoch has a saints day, July 26, in the Armenian Apostolic Church.

The Fasli, Qadimi and the Shahanshahi all ( notionally ) start each of the 30 day long months with the Sun entering a new constellation, similar to the Vedic ( Hindu ) Solar calendars as reflected in the Jyotisha ( Vedic Astrology ), and the Armenian calendar, but different from the Iranian ( Jalaali ) Calendar, the Julian Calendar, the Mayan Haab Calendar and the French Revolutionary Calendar, whose epochs of the months are fixed to the equinoxes / solstices, as are the signs of Western Astrology.

Some of these names can be translated from Armenian as common words: e. g. Taguhi means “ queen ” and Varaz means “ wild boar .” In fact, Armenians to this day use the first name Aghvan ( Աղվան ) that directly refers to the Kingdom of Aghvank.

Most Armenians in the diaspora are not from the Republic of Armenia but from Western Armenia ( modern day Eastern Turkey ), mainly those who descended from the survivors of the Armenian Genocide.

:" All day long I was dealing with different races: English, French, Italian, Greek, Armenian, Turkish, Kurdish, Russian, Arab, Jews and people so mixed up as to be no race at all.

The Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople and All of Turkey, which has jurisdiction in the modern day Republic of Turkey, is led by Patriarch Archbishop Mesrob Mutafyan.

It remained under the power of the Goths throughout the Gothic War ( 535 – 552 ), except for a single day in 541, when the Armenian officer Artabazes made an entrance.

Shivini or Artinis ( the present form of the name is Artin, meaning " sun rising " or to " awake ", and it persists in Armenian names to this day ) was a solar god in the mythology of the Urartu.

“ Noah ’ s Prayer ” was debuted in 2002 in Sardarapat, Armenia to celebrate Armenian Independence day in the presence of Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, and His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians ( head of the Armenian Apostolic Church ).

* Aram, the third day of the month in the Armenian calendar

The following day 1, 000 Armenians participated in another demonstration calling for Armenian national rights in Karabagh.

On April 24, 1915, the day when the Armenian Genocide officially began, he was arrested and put on a train the next day together with 180 other Armenian notables and sent to the city of Çankırı in northern Central Anatolia, at a distance of some 300 miles.

* 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet ( d. 1951 )

The Azeri armed forces took a series of devastating defeats by Armenian forces during the 1992 – 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War, which resulted in the loss of control of Nagorno-Karabakh proper and seven surrounding rayons, comprising roughly 16 % of the territory of Azerbaijan.

According to official Armenian statistics, it rose by 11 percent to $ 91. 6 million in January – November 2010.

Furthermore, Aghajanov points to the Armenian government's failure to eliminate widespread corruption and mismanagement in the energy sector – abuses that cost Armenia at least $ 50 million in losses each year, according to one estimate.

* 1985 – Gegard Mousasi, Armenian mixed martial artist

* 1956 – Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian politician

* 1857 – Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and novelist ( d. 1935 )

* 1909 – A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.

* 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.

* 1960 – Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian musician, composer and producer

* 1992 – The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.

* 1980 – Karen Asrian, Armenian chess player ( d. 2008 )

* 1992 – Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan

* 1869 – Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet and writer ( d. 1923 )

* 1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.

* 1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijani troops massacre 70 – 90 Armenian civilians in the village of Qaradağlı

* 1988 – Sumgait Pogrom: The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was in the target of a violent pogrom.

* 1910 – Genrikh Gasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer ( d. 1995 )

A second German edition, thoroughly revised ( 1856 – 1861 ), also covered Old Armenian.

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