Further deportations of Armenians from the coastal region occurred in 1948, when 58, 000 nationalist Armenian Dashnak supporters and Greeks were forced to move to Kazakhstan.

The Republican Party's national conservative ideology is based on tseghakron, an early 20th century Armenian nationalist ideology ( roughly translated as " nation-religion ").

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( ARF ) (), also known as Dashnaktsutyun, is an Armenian left-wing nationalist party founded in Tiflis, Russian Empire ( now Tbilisi, Georgia ) in 1890 by Christapor Mikaelian, Stepan Zorian, and Simon Zavarian.

Other parties represented in Parliament at this time included the Armenian nationalist Dashnak and Hunchak parties ( four and two members respectively ) and the main opposition, the Liberty and Entente party, sometimes referred to by Ottoman historians as the " Liberal Union ".

However Harutyunyan quickly decided to run before the nationalist wind and on May 28, 1988 allowed the outlawed flag of the First Armenian Republic to be unfurled for the first time in almost 70 years in Yerevan.

Zeitlian, an Armenian nationalist leader, was a member of the Political Bureau of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ; the Political Bureau is the highest ranking subdivision of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.

When the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic ( SSR ) struck for independence in 1989, Nalbandyan became a prominent critic of the nationalist movement, which he felt was foolhardy and was merely agitating the people for political gain.

They observed no distinction between the nationalist dissidents and the Armenian population at large, and massacred them with brutal force.

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

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

* 1921 – Arno Babajanian, Armenian composer and pianist ( d. 1983 )

* Hampartsoum Limondjian, Armenian / Ottoman composer

* June 6 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer ( d. 1978 )

** Alexander Arutiunian, Armenian composer ( d. 2012 )

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

* May 1 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer ( b. 1903 )

** Alexander Arutiunian, Armenian composer ( b. 1920 )

His father Raymond Legrand was a conductor and composer renowned for hits such as Irma la douce and his mother, Marcelle Der Mikaëlian ( sister of conductor Jacques Hélian ), who married Legrand Senior in 1929, was descended from the Armenian bourgeoisie.

* December 21-Gregory Egiazarovich Yeghiazarian, Armenian composer ( died 1988 )

Aram Khachaturian (; ) ( May 1, 1978 ) was a Soviet Armenian composer.

He was also the composer for the state anthem of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, whose tune is one of the five current choices to become the next state anthem of Armenia.

The " Sabre Dance " ( Suserov par ) is a movement in the final act of the ballet Gayane, written by Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian and completed in 1942.

* Komitas Vardapet ( 1869 – 1935 ), Armenian priest, composer, choir leader, singer, music ethnologist, music pedagogue and musicologist

It was composed by Aram Khachaturian, a world-famous Armenian composer, who was known for his concertos and ballets, Spartacus and Gayane, the latter including the ever-popular Sabre Dance.

Armenian-Canadian composer Vahram Sargsyan ( 1981-) represents the younger generation of Armenian contemporary music composers who is mostly known for his choral compositions.

American composer Daniel Decker has achieved critical acclaim for his collaborations with Armenian composer Ara Gevorgian.

* Ara Dinkjian, an Armenian oud player and composer

Soghomon Gevorgi Soghomonyan (), commonly known as Komitas Vardapet (, by Western Armenian transliteration also Gomidas Vartabed ) or simply Komitas ( Gomidas ) ( born on September 26 or October 8, 1869, in Kütahya, Ottoman Empire ; died on October 22, 1935, in Paris, France ) was an Armenian priest, composer, choir leader, singer, music ethnologist, music pedagogue and musicologist.

* Raffi Armenian ( born 1942 ), Armenian-Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and teacher.

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

For instance, one of Rimsky-Korsakov's famous students, Alexander Spendiaryan went on to become the founder of Armenian classical music, carrying on the traditions and aesthetics of the Mighty Handful to the Caucasus.

They ended up in Egypt, which is where he met Alexander Mantashev, a prominent Armenian oil magnate and philanthropist.

After Alexander the Great's death in 323 BC, various Macedonian generals such as Neoptolemus tried to take control of the region, but ultimately failed and a native Armenian dynasty of Orontids flourished until Armenia was conquered by Antiochus III the Great ( ruled 222-187 BC ).

Alexander Spendiarov ( 1871 – 1928 ), Armen Tigranian ( 1879 – 1950 ), and Haro Stepanian are best known for their Armenian operas.

Alexander Dolukhanian ( 1910 – 1968 ) composed / arranged numerous Armenian songs including the well-known " Swallow ".

Alexander Adgemian ( 1925 – 1987 ), Ashot Satian ( 1906 – 1958 ) and Vagarshak Kotoyan ( 1921 – 1992 ) are known for their contributions to Armenian choral and vocal music.

Alexander I in 1809 invited several Armenian families to settle by the fortress, in order to encourage trade in the region.

The Army of the Ten Thousand, Alexander the Great before the Battle of Issus, Paul of Tarsus on his way to the Galatians, and part of the army of the First Crusade all passed through the Cilician Gates, the site of the medieval fortress of Baberon ( or Barbaron ), then a stronghold of the medieval Armenian Principality of Cilicia.

In 1926, municipal authorities adopted a new city layout designed by the prominent Armenian architect, Alexander Tamanian ; two additional designs for expansion were approved later on in the 1930s and 1960s, both of which retained Tamanian's initial plan.

Following the campaigns of Alexander the Great in 330s BC, as the Persian Empire collapsed, Mithridates, an Armenian general of the Persian army, declared himself king of Lesser Armenia.

The Syriac legend was the source of an Arabic variant called the Qisas Dhul-Qarnayn ( Tales of Dhul-Qarnayn ) and a Persian variant called the Iskandarnamah ( Book of Alexander ), as well as Armenian and Ethiopic translations.

The Chronicles, the older Conversion of Kartli, and the older still Armenian chronicles of Moses of Chorene all give conflicting accounts of Mtskheta's history prior to and during the conquests of Alexander the Great.

Alexander returned to Persia, and with the help of his friend, the heir apparent Abbas Mirza and the Armenian Catholicos Efrem married the daughter of Melik Sahak Aghamalian, the secular chief of the Armenians of Erivan.

Both Alexander and the Persian government hoped that this marriage would secure Armenian support against the Russians.

Her Armenian father Alexander Sarkisov took the last name Allegrov as a pseudonym when he was just 17 and Irina was born under the name Allegrova.

First he sent his friend Quintus Dellius, who offered a betrothal of Antony's six year old son Alexander Helios to a daughter of Artavasdes, but the Armenian king hesitated.

The Armenian prince Sanatroces, of the royal house of the Arsacides, is mentioned in the " Small Chronicle " as one of the successors ( diadochoi ) of Alexander.

Alexander Tamanian, appointed as the chief architect of Yerevan, is largely responsible for the Armenian variety of Stalinist architecture.

In the late 17th century, Alexander Tertzakian was a renowned Armenian writer who created several works considered to be among Armenia's classics.

Namus was the first Armenian silent black and white film ( 1926, ), directed by Hamo Beknazarian and based on a play of Alexander Shirvanzade describing the ill fate of two lovers, who were engaged by their families to each other since childhood, but because of violations of namus ( a tradition of honor ), the girl was married by her father.