When Chelebi Lütfi Pasha became Grand Vizier in 1539, he appointed Sinan, who had previously served under his command, Architect of the Abode of Felicity.

The travel chronicler Evliya Chelebi, who visited it in 1662, recorded that it had 600 households, a mosque, a mezjid, an inn and 15 handicraft stores.

This mosque was called the Süleymaniye Camii, as attested by a traveler Evliya Chelebi, who visited Bodrum in 1671.

According to Ottoman traveler, Evliya Chelebi, who visited the town in 1666, most of its inhabitants spoke local Slavic language and Turkish language, while some also spoke Vlach.

Suleiman's suspicion of Ibrahim was worsened by a quarrel between the latter and the Minister of Finance Iskender Chelebi.

Bagradian considers himself a loyal citizen of the Ottoman Empire, even a patriot, eschewing the more radical Armenian parties, such as the socialist Hunchaks.

Matthew was also a fervent Armenian patriot, lamenting the martyrdom of his people and exalting their heroic deeds.

During the 1st century BC the Armenians in what had been Urartu established the powerful Armenian kingdom under Tigran who reigned throughout much of eastern Anatolia between the Caspian, Black Sea and Mediterranean.

According to an OSCE survey, a typical Armenian migrant worker is a married man aged between 41 and 50 years who " began looking for work abroad at the age of 32-33.

* Constantine Humbertopoulos, who had assisted Alexios in gaining the throne in 1081 conspired against him in 1091 with an Armenian called Ariebes.

During the 1st World War British prisoners of war who had been captured at Gallipoli were housed here in an empty Armenian church at the foot of the rock.

On the coming of his age, Gregory married a woman called Miriam a devout Christian who was the daughter of a Christian Armenian Prince in Cappadocia.

Finkelstein believes there to be only one " truly mainstream " holocaust denier — Bernard Lewis, who was convicted in France of denying the Armenian genocide.

Baldwin was married to the Armenian noblewoman Morphia of Melitene, and had four daughters: Hodierna and Alice, who married into the families of the Count of Tripoli and Prince of Antioch ; Ioveta, who became an influential abbess ; and the eldest, Melisende, who was his heir and succeeded him upon his death in 1131, with her husband Fulk V of Anjou as king-consort.

They may have been influenced by an earlier religious sect of Armenian " Paulicians ", who became known as the " Bogomils " of Thrace, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Serbia.

# The return by the Ottoman Empire of Armenian emigrants who had taken refuge in nearby areas ( Ardahan, Kars, and Batumi ).

Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley in the campus of St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, Bengal, India ( British India ), to Ernest Hartley, an English officer in the Indian Cavalry, and Gertrude Mary Robinson Yackjee ( 1888-1972 ), a devout Roman Catholic of Irish and Armenian descent, the daughter of Mary I. Robinson and John G. Yackjee, who wed in 1872.

According to Armenian lore, there are women who, in consequence of deadly sins, are condemned to spend seven years in wolf form.

Her father Baldwin was a crusader knight who carved out the Crusader State of Edessa and married Morphia, daughter of the Armenian Prince Gabriel of Melitene, in a diplomatic marriage to fortify alliances in the region.

But when Gelimer reached Ammatas's position and discovered that his brother had been killed, by the vanguard of John the Armenian, he became disconsolate and failed to give an order for one more assault — which would probably have destroyed the reeling Roman army and cut off the Huns and Romans who had earlier advanced toward Carthage after beating Ammatas and Gibamund.

In the winter of 1158 – 59, he marched to Cilicia at the head of a huge army ; the speed of his advance ( Manuel had hurried on ahead of the main army with 500 cavalry ) was such that he managed to surprise the Armenian Thoros of Cilicia, who had participated in the attack on Cyprus.

In 1923, the mandate of the Commission was expanded to include the more than one million Armenians who left Turkish Asia Minor in 1915 and 1923 due to a series of events now known as the Armenian Genocide.

This appearance may be recalled in the representation of Tigranes the Great, an Armenian king who is depicted on coins with a crown that features, according to V. G. Gurzadyan and R. Vardanyan, " a star with a curved tail may represent the passage of Halley's Comet in 87 BCE.

** Armenia severs diplomatic relations with Hungary, following the extradition to Azerbaijan and subsequent pardoning of Ramil Safarov, who was convicted of killing an Armenian soldier in Hungary in 2004.

Andropov was the son of a railway official Vladimir Konstantinovich Andropov, who was a member of a Armenian noble family.

It became an important center during the reign of the Armenian king, Tigranes II, who founded the city of Tigranakert in the 1st century BC.

He is a grandson of Agop Vartovyan, an Ottoman Armenian who is accepted as the founder of modern Turkish theatre.

Basil I, called the Macedonian (, Basíleios hō Makedṓn ;, Barsegh A Makedonatsi ; 830 / 835 – August 29, 886 ) was a Byzantine Emperor of probable Armenian descent who reigned from 867 to 886.

Philippicus was originally named Bardanes (, Vardanis ; ), and was the son of the patrician Nikephorus, who was of Armenian extraction from an Armenian colony in Pergamum.

He helped develop and implement the " positive neutrality " policy of the ARF, and created and maintained a united Armenian front by forging an alliance of Lebanese Armenian Political parties.

Non-Armenians from churches which were theologically linked to the Armenian Church ( by virtue of being non-Chalcedonians ) were under the authority of the Armenian Patriarchate, although they maintained a separate hierarchy with their own Patriarchs.

In the same spirit, he maintained very good relations with the Armenian bishop of Bucharest, who became later the Patriarch Catholicos of Armenia, Vazgen I.

The Khamsa ( The Five ) principalities maintained Armenian autonomy in the region throughout the Persian-Ottoman Wars.

* It is funded by the Armenian Apostolic Church and maintained by The Armenian Church Committee in Calcutta.

Orthographies with a high grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence ( excluding exceptions due to loan words and assimilation ) include those of Finnish, Albanian, Georgian, Turkish ( apart from ğ and various palatal and vowel allophones ), Serbo-Croatian ( Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ), Bulgarian, Macedonian ( if the apostrophe is counted, though slight inconsistencies may be found ), Eastern Armenian ( apart from o, v ), Basque ( apart from palatalized l, n ), Haitian Creole, Castilian Spanish ( apart from h, x, b / v, and sometimes k, c, g, j, z ), Czech ( apart from ě, ů, y, ý ), Polish ( apart from ó, h, rz ), Romanian ( apart from distinguishing semivowels from vowels ), Ukrainian ( mainly phonemic with some other historical / morphological rules, as well as palatalization ), Swahili ( missing aspirated consonants, which do not occur in all varieties and are sparsely used anyways ), Mongolian ( apart from letters representing multiple sounds depending on front or back vowels, the soft and hard sign, silent letters to indicate / ŋ / from / n / and voiced versus voiceless consonants ) Azerbaijani ( apart from k ), and Kazakh ( apart from и, у, х, щ, ю ).

Hagopian also took lessons by correspondence from legendary blind Armenian oudist Udi Hrant Kenkulian of Istanbul, who later in 1969 gave him the title of " Udi " ( oud master ), being one of the few to receive this title.

Korean has lightly aspirated stops that fall between the Armenian and Cantonese unaspirated and aspirated stops, as well as strongly aspirated stops whose aspiration lasts longer than that of Armenian or Cantonese.

On Sunday, November 9, 2008, a clash erupted between Armenian and Greek monks during celebrations for the Feast of the Cross.

One FM station, which shifts between French, English, and Armenian, and the sole AM radio station, which broadcasts solely in Arabic, are owned by the state-owned Radio Lebanon, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Information.

* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place.

* There are between 30, 000 and 44, 000 people of Armenian descent living in Turkmenistan.

The total number of resulting Armenian deaths is generally held to have been between 1 million and 1. 5 million.

Yerevan has served as the seat of the newly-formed Armenian Oblast between 1828 – 1840.

In 2008, unrest in the capital between the authorities and opposition demonstrators led by ex-President Levon Ter-Petrosyan occurred after the 2008 Armenian presidential election.

It was characterised by the use of massacres and deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of Armenian deaths generally held to have been between one and one-and-a-half million.

Peres stated: " We reject attempts to create a similarity between the Holocaust and the Armenian allegations.

Afterwards, Maurice imposed a union between the Armenian Church and the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Following Vladimir I. Georgiev, who placed Pelasgian as an Indo-European language " between Albanian and Armenian ", Albert Joris Van Windekens ( 1915 — 1989 ) offered rules for an unattested hypothetical Indo-European Pelasgian language, selecting vocabulary for which there was no Greek etymology among the names of places, heroes, animals, plants, garments, artifacts, social organization.

The Kingdom of Urartu flourished in the Caucasus and eastern Asia Minor between the 9th century BC and 585 BC in the Armenian Highland.

The term Aghuank is polysemous and is also used in Armenian sources to denote the region between the Kur and Araxes rivers as part of Armenia.

This council was convened to clarify the relationship between the Armenian and Georgian churches.

In 1254 Bohemond VI married Sibylla, an Armenian princess, ending the power struggle between the two states, although by this point Armenia was the more powerful of the two and Antioch was essentially a vassal state.

The collective farm's ethnic diversity is the backdrop for each part of the music ( adagio arrangements, lively Armenian and Caucasian tunes ) and for the compelling tale of love between the social classes.

While the Republic of Armenia does not legally distinguish between the two forms in declaring " Armenian " to be its official language, its de facto official language is Eastern Armenian, as all spheres of life in the country ( including government, education, and the media ) use that form almost exclusively.

After a botched attempt by Vic and Ronnie to have Shane killed in a shootout between Mexican and Armenian gangs, Shane recruits a local criminal to make a hit on Ronnie while he prepares to ambush and kill Vic.

A major contributing factor may also have been a late influx of the Armenian vote in the California Governor's race between George Deukmejian and Tom Bradley.

More specifically, the South Caucasus area spans the southern portion of the Caucasus Mountains and its lowlands, straddles the border between the two continents of Europe and Asia, extends from the southern part of the Greater Caucasus mountain range of southwestern Russia southerly to the Turkish and Armenian borders, and from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea coast of Iran.