All words related to Christianity are Armenian: terter ( priest, instead of Persian kešiš ), zam ( church, instead of Persian kilse ), knunk ( christening, instead of Persian ghosl ta ’ mid ), zatik ( Easter, instead of Persian fesh ), pas ( Lent, instead of Persian ruze ) etc.

Jeremias notes that the Quartodecimans began their Christian Passover celebrations by reading the appropriate readings from the Hebrew Scriptures, i. e., the twelve readings from the Hebrew Scriptures that still are read at the Easter Vigil in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Armenian traditions.

The original twelve New Testament readings for the Easter Vigil survive in an ancient manuscript belonging to the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

* Tzadik, the Armenian word for Easter

A new party, the Republic Party, is headed by ex-Prime Minister Aram Sargsyan, brother of Vazgen Sargsyan, and has become the primary voice of the opposition, which also includes the Armenian Communist Party, the National Unity party of Artashes Geghamyan, and elements of the former Ter-Petrosyan government.

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.

* The ablative case is also important to comparative statements in colloquial Armenian.

An ancient commentary in Armenian also exists.

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

Some Indo-Europeanists claim that Greek seems to be most closely related to Armenian ( see also Graeco-Armenian ) and the Indo-Iranian languages ( see Graeco-Aryan ) among the living Indo-European languages.

A Catholic mission was conducted in the Ottoman days by Assumpionist Fathers ; there are also a number of Armenian and Greek Catholics, with priests of their respective rites.

Irenaeus also wrote The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, an Armenian copy of which was discovered in 1904.

A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Armenian within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but the meaning of isolate in such cases is usually clarified.

Armenian militia also played a role in the Georgia-Abkhazia War of 1992-1993.

Tatian, the Assyrian, created the Diatessaron, a gospel harmony written in Syriac around AD 170 and the earliest form of the gospel not only in Syriac but probably also in Armenian.

* The Anatolian Lahmacun ( Arabic: laḥm bi ' ajīn ; Armenian: lahmajoun ; also Armenian pizza or Turkish pizza ) is a meat-topped dough round.

The Republic of Turkey does not deny the Ottoman Armenian casualties, but denies they were genocide, specifically claiming that said deaths were consequence of war, and also were criminal killings neither approved nor committed by the Ottoman Empire.

Other considerations of the rules of international law, particularly those prohibiting the use of force and the acquisition of territory, are also relevant in that the Soviet authorities and, subsequently, the Azerbaijani government applied use of military and paramilitary force in ethnic cleansing initiatives like Operation Ring, while the Armenian community of Nagorno-Karabakh established militia forces to resist further pogroms and defend the civilian population by repelling Azeri forces.

In Armenian manuscripts, Yerevan was also mentioned as Erevan, Erivan, Erewan, Ervan, Eruan, Arevan, Iravan, Revan and Ayravan.

It has been suggested that these were commissioned by Irene, as another sign of her good favor toward Theodore, although a commission under Michael I Rangabe ( r. 811 – 813 ) is also possible ; in any case, they were removed in 815 by Leo V the Armenian ( r. 813 – 820 ) and replaced by new " iconoclastic " verses.

Nicosia also hosts an Armenian achbishopship, a small Buddhist temple and also the Maronite arbishopship and convent.

He also negotiated a peace on behalf of Armenian Catholics with the Ottoman Empire.

" Moe is also hinted to be Armenian in " Judge Me Tender " ( 2010 ), claiming that Armenian Idol is his favorite show.

It can also be seen as a spiritual mode of ridding persons and things of dangerous influences, as of demons ( Persian drug, Greek κηρες Keres, Armenian dev ) believed to be or to cause disease.

The language preserves forms found only in Classical and Middle Armenian, and at the same time preserves foreign ( especially Arab and Turkish ) grammatical and lexical components that were stripped from modern Armenian during the twentieth century.

Classical Armenian is also important for the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European language, since it preserves many archaic features.

The word Sarmoung uses the Armenian pronunciation of the Persian term Sarman, which may mean either " he who preserves the doctrine of Zoroaster " or " bee ".

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.

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 ".

Firstly, it is the extent of self-determination a people are given to protect themselves and determine how they wish to be ruled and what role is played by human rights violations, cultural eradication and pogroms by the Azerbaijani majority against the Armenian communities of Azerbaijan in a decision.

No sacred Armenian fact was left un-attacked .” Thomas de Waal describes Mammadova as a sophisticated end of what “ in Azerbaijan has become a very blunt instrument indeed .” Both Ziya Bunyadov and Farida Mammadova are known for their anti-Armenian public pronouncements and pamphlets.

Although he was born in what is now Georgia and lived most of his life in Russia, Aram Khachaturian has been an iconic figure for generations of Armenian composers.

During the first centuries of Christianity, the South Caucasus was culturally much more united than in later periods, and constant interactions between what would become the Georgian and Armenian Churches shaped both of them.

Red Army soldiers and Armenian Dashnaks thoroughly pillaged Kokand, carrying out what was described as a " pogrom ," in which as many as 14, 000 people died.

Four days later, even though, Slovakia had its most disastrous performance in years, as, after creating chances in a goalless first half, went on to concede four goals to an effective and brave Armenian team, what definetly ended team confidence in the tournament spot.

The movie has enjoyed similar success in Armenia as well because Armenian filmgoers understand what Azamat Bagatov ( Kenneth Davitian ), Borat's producer and second character in the movie, is actually saying when he is supposed to spout in Kazakh: through the film, Azamat speaks fluent Armenian.

If this is a reference to a celebration of Christ's birth, as well as of his baptism, on 6 January, it corresponds to what continues to be the custom of the Armenian Apostolic Church, which celebrates the birth of Jesus on 6 January of the calendar used, calling the feast that of the Nativity and Theophany of Our Lord.

His grandfather had a paternal relationship with the Armenian villages that dot the land around Musa Dagh, a role that Gabriel Bagradian assumes not to be a real leader but more to help his French wife acclimate to what could be a long exile in the Turkish Levant.

It is not until four refugees arrive in Yoghonoluk in late April that the full nature of what the Ottoman government is doing becomes clear, for the refugees bring news of the brutal suppression of an Armenian uprising in the city of Zeitun and the mass deportation that followed.

Located outside of the Armenian Highland and distinct from the Armenian Kingdom of Antiquity, it was centered in the Cilicia region northwest of the Gulf of Alexandretta, in what is today southern Turkey.

Kars had been fortified to withstand a lengthy siege but, to the astonishment of all, was taken with little resistance by Turkish forces on October 30, 1920, in what some modern scholars have called one of the worst military fiascoes in Armenian history.

There is one Armenian church in Bucharest on what is called Strada Armenească (" Armenian Street ").

By the 6th century AD Armenian Bishops were located in Jerusalem around what they called " Mount Zion ", indicating that a substantial Armenian community existed in the city and that the community was settling continuously in a particular area.

A leader of the well-developed school of Armenian mysticism at Narek Monastery, at the request of his brethren he set out to find an answer to an imponderable question: what can one offer to God, our creator, who already has everything and knows everything better than we could ever express it?

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.

Establishing the size of this population is very important in determining an accurate estimation of Armenian losses between 1915 and 1923 during the Armenian Genocide and what followed as the Turkish War of Independence.