* The Saint Karapet Monastery of the Armenians, which was founded in the 4th century by Saint Gregory the Illuminator and kept important relics of Saint John the Baptist.

In 2001, there were about 2, 500 Armenians living in Jerusalem, most of them living in and around the Patriarchate at the St. James Monastery, which occupies most of the Armenian Quarter.

Thus in the 17th century the Armenians were allowed after much pleading to enlarge the St. James Monastery.

Armenians crowding around the building in Yerevan where the 1920 Plenary session | plenum officially declared Armenia a Soviet republic.

Thoros and Prince Raynald both conducted widespread plundering of the island: the Franks and Armenians marched up and down the island robbing and pillaging every building that they saw, churches and convents as well as shops and private houses.

The Safavid shah of Iran, Abbas I ( r. 1587 – 1629 ) implemented the policy, sidelining the Turkish ghilman elite and building up a more loyal ghulam force, mostly consisting of Georgians, Armenians, and Circassians.

In the thirteenth century, the Karamanids, a clan in Central Anatolia, expanded their borders towards the city, building the Alaköprü bridge ( which can still be seen on the road to Ankara ) and conquering the city in 1230 from Cilicia Armenians.

The Armenians at this time had acquired much of the land in today ’ s Armenian quarter and by 1165 had finished constructing St. James Cathedral which became the most important building of the quarter and remains so today.

In 1896 the banking office in Constantinople was attacked by a group of armed Armenians who threatened to destroy the building with bombs.

Procopius and the Armenians would march down the Tigris to meet Julian near Ctesiphon.

Other ethnic minority groups such as the Armenians and Latins came to be settled near the western entry into the city at Paphos Gate.

Many were transferred to New Julfa, a town the shah had built for the Armenians near his capital Isfahan.

The Muslim community surrounded the Haram ash-Sharif or Temple Mount ( northeast ), the Christians lived mainly in the vicinity of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ( northwest ), the Jews lived mostly on the slope above the Western Wall ( southeast ), and the Armenians lived near the Zion Gate ( southwest ).

Additionally, in 1944, roughly 200, 000 Hamshenis ( Sunni Muslim Armenians who live near the Black Sea coastal regions of Russia, Georgia and Turkey ) were deported from Georgia to areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

On September 17, 1988 when gunbattles broke out between Armenians and Azerbaijanis near Stepanakert, 2 soldiers were killed and more than 2 dozen people were injured.

Other ethnic minority groups such as the Armenians and Latins came to be settled near the western entry into the city at Paphos Gate.

Pope Clement VI, Letter Super Quibusdam ( to Consolator the Catholicos of Armenia ), September 20, 1351: " In the second place, we ask whether you and the Armenians obedient to you believe that no man of the wayfarers outside of the faith of this Church, and outside the obedience of the Pope of Rome, can finally be saved … In the ninth place, if you have believed and do believe that all who have raised themselves against the faith of the Roman Church and have died in final impenitence have been damned and have descended to the eternal punishments of hell.

A second collaboration called “ Adana ” tells the story of the Armenian Genocide, during which soldiers of the Ottoman Empire forced 1. 5 million Armenians into starvation, torture and extermination.

The second location Moschice ( Moschikê ) – in which was a temple of Leucothea, once famous for its wealth, but plundered by Pharnaces and Mithridates – was divided between the Colchians, Armenians, and Iberians ( cf.

But all was not achievements, for in 1439 Armenians were removed from the Golgotha chapel, but the Patriarch Mardiros I ( 1412 – 1450 ) purchased the " opposite area " and named it second Golgotha ; this remains in the Patriarch's possession to this day.

Thus Armenians came to make up 22. 9 % of Jerusalem's Christians by 1690, becoming the second largest Christian community.

Armenians are described as the " second most important shareholder " of the Church, the Greek Orthodox being the most important.

The Armenians controlled the Chapel of Parting of the Raiment, Chapel of Saint Helena, the Chapel of St. John and the Chapel of the Three Marys, as well as the second floor above the main entrance.

Thus the sufferings endured by the Armenians at the hands of the Seljuks became the impetus for many of the Armenians to seek refuges and sanctuaries in Byzantine Anatolia and Cilicia throughout the second half of the 11th century.

However, on May 27 hostilities broke out between the NAA and the MVD troops based in Yerevan, resulting in the deaths of five Armenians killed in a shootout at the railway station.

Violence against local Azerbaijanis was reported on Soviet television, provoking massacres of Armenians in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait.

The Council's findings were rejected by many of the Christians on the fringes of the Byzantine Empire, including Egyptians, Syrians, Armenians, and others.

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.

But at present Saint John is celebrated on a wide variety of dates in Eastern rites: 29 December for Armenians, 30 December for Copts, 7 May for Syrians and 26 September for Christians of Byzantine Rite.

Dr Simon Kraiz, an expert on Eastern European Jewry at the University of Haifa, pointed out that no Khazar writings have been found: " We know a lot about them, and yet we know almost nothing: Jews wrote about them, and so did Russians, Georgians, and Armenians, to name a few.

The other chief incidents of his pontificate were his disputes with King Edward III of England as a result of the latter's encroachments on ecclesiastical jurisdiction, as well as with the kings of Castile and Aragon ; his fruitless negotiations for reunion with the Armenians and the Byzantine emperor, John VI Kantakouzenos ; and the commencement of Cola di Rienzo's agitation in Rome.

The allocation of seats in the provincial assembly was based on the 1938 census held by the French authorities under international supervision: out of 40 seats, 22 were given to the Turks, nine for Alawi Arabs, five for Armenians, two for Sunni Arabs, and two for Christian Arabs.

The Maccabees again rebelled, civil war soon tore the empire to pieces, and the Armenians began to encroach on Syria from the north.

Thus, on the coins and charters issued in her name, Tamar is identified as " by the will of God, King of Kings and Queen of Queens of the Abkhazians, Kartvelians, Arranians, Kakhetians, and Armenians ; Shirvanshah and Shahanshah ; Autocrat of all the East and the West, Glory of the World and Faith ; Champion of the Messiah.

But the " upper Aorsi " from whom they had split as fugitives, could send many more, for they dominated the coastal region of the Caspian Sea: " and consequently they could import on camels the Indian and Babylonian merchandise, receiving it in their turn from the Armenians and the Medes, and also, owing to their wealth, could wear golden ornaments.

" Gurzadyan and Vardanyan argue that " Tigranes could have seen Halley's Comet when it passed closest to the Sun on August 6 in 87 BCE " as the comet would have been a " most recordable event "; for ancient Armenians it could have heralded the New Era of the brilliant King of Kings.

Eugene IV signed an agreement with the Armenians on 22 November 1439, and with a part of the Jacobites in 1443, and in 1445 he received the Nestorians and the Maronites.

They fought their way north through hostile Persians, Armenians, and Kurds to Trapezus, on the coast of the Black Sea under Xenophon.

It became home to an extremely diverse population of Albanians, Armenians, Azeris, Bulgarians, Crimean Tatars, Frenchmen, Germans ( including Mennonites ), Greeks, Italians, Jews, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Turks, Ukrainians, and traders representing many other nationalities ( hence numerous " ethnic " names on the city's map, for example Frantsuzky ( French ) and Italiansky ( Italian ) Boulevards, Gretcheskaya ( Greek ), Yevreyskaya ( Jewish ), Arnautskaya ( Albanian ) Streets ).

They fight their way north through hostile Persians, Armenians, and Kurds to Trapezus on the coast of the Black Sea under Xenophon, who becomes their leader when the Persian satrap, Tissaphernes has Clearchus of Sparta and the other senior Greek captains captured and executed by Artaxerxes.

By all accounts this was met with notable success, particularly as there was a large colony of Armenians on the island at that time, and this encouraged Heraclius to attempt to seek a wider approval of his compromise.

Based on the official 1914 Ottoman Census the population of Van province consisted of 179, 422 Muslims and 67, 797 Armenians.

While scholars in Turkey allege that the Armenians launched a rebellion in Van in 1915, most historians agree that the Armenian residents, hoping to avoid the slaughter being inflicted on the rural populations surrounding Van, defended themselves in the Armenian quarters of the city against the Turks.

However the idea of ceding Van to the Armenians was flouted, and Ismet Inonu was said to have surveyed army officers on 14 October 1919 on the issue of ceding Van and Bitlis.

A survey prepared by the Russian imperial authorities in 1823, several years before the 1828 Armenian migration from Persia to the newly established Armenian Province, shows that all Armenians of Karabakh compactly resided in its highland portion, i. e. on the territory of the five traditional Armenian principalities in Nagorno Karabakh, and constituted an absolute demographic majority on those lands.

In 2011, officials from YAP submitted a letter to OSCE which included the statement, " The OSCE fact-finding mission report released last year also found that some 15, 000 Armenians have been illegally settled on Azerbaijan's occupied territories.

The author of the only dedicated biography of Basil I in English has concluded that it is impossible to be certain what the ethnic origins of the emperor were, though Basil was definitely reliant on the support of Armenians in prominent positions within the Byzantine Empire.