Thread by @PascalProfessor

Positives contributions to the world by Armenians
Sample of 21 Cultural, Musical, Social contributions

Staying Silent kills Armenians
See if you can live without Armenians

Armenians create culture but also businesses!

#PeaceForArmenians
#DiscoverArmenianCulture
#Genocide

Armenia is one of the most ancient place-names on Earth.
One of the most ancient maps, attributed to the 6th century BC Babylonians. Includes the land of Urartu, which was the Babylonian word for what the ancient Persians referred to as Armina. #DiscoverArmenianCulture
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Did you know that Armenian merchants brought opened the first coffee houses in Europe? Est. 1685 by Hovhannes Astvatsatur. #DiscoverArmenianCulture
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San Lazzaro in Venice was established as the island monastery of the Mekhitarist Congregation in 1717. #DiscoverArmenianCulture
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A notation system 4 classical music was developed by Hampartsum Limondjian in 1813. The Armenians might be the only people i the world, 2have published music using 3 different systems of notation older khaz, Limondjian, & modern 5lined Western scores #DiscoverArmenianCulture
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A khachkar, aka Armenian cross-stone is a carved, memorial stele bearing a cross, and often with additional motifs such as rosettes, interlaces, and botanical motifs. The oldest khachkar with a known date was carved in 879. #DiscoverArmenianCulture
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The Garden of Eden is by some traditions located in Armenia. Old versions of the biblie that contains pictures shows Noah's Ark to have landed on the Armenian Mount Ararat. Armenia is also the first Christian Nation, Est. 301. #DiscoverArmenianCulture
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Armenians established in Old Jerusalem early 4th century and constitutes one of the quarters of the walled city. The Armenian Brotherhood of St. James in Jerusalem dates back to the 7th century AD. #DiscoverArmenianCulture
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Armenian diasporas long ago, often recognised 4their worth allowed large freedoms &privileges, Armenians even managed their own legal affairs, with tribunals based on t Armenian Statute approved by King Sigismund I the Old of Poland 1519, lasting 1780. #DiscoverArmenianCulture 8/

The Armenian Church of St. Gregory the Illuminator, dating to 1835, was the first church built in Singapore. #DiscoverArmenianCulture
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Armenian alphabet has been used to write Turkish. The Turkish language does not have an original alphabet. #DiscoverArmenianCulture
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One of oldest works written in Georgian is about an Armenian. T are probably very few peoples on t planet who can claim to be as ancient neighbours as t Armenians & the Georgians. 1 of t very 1st written works in t Georgian language~ about Shushanik. #DiscoverArmenianCulture 11/

Armenian was 1 of the 1st languages into which the Bible was translated. There is evidence of both Syriac and Greek influence in the translation of the Bible completed by 436 AD. Armenians may be the only people in the world who venerate translators. #DiscoverArmenianCulture 12/

The former national anthem of Ethiopia was composed by an Armenian. #DiscoverArmenianCulture
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Komitas Vardapet, 1 of greatest of ethnomusicology, founded classical armenian music. French Debussy was influenced by Komitas fell in love with his work. After 1 of his concertos exclaimed: Brilliant Father Komitas I bow before your musical genius. #DiscoverArmenianCulture 14/

Sayat Nova wrote & sang songs in at least 3languages. Born Harutyun Sayatyan or Sayakyan, is remembered as t most celebrated gousan or ashough/ashik, t folk musicians whose works resonated across highlands between Black Sea &Caspian Sea for centuries. #DiscoverArmenianCulture 15/

Zabel Yesayan was t only woman on t list of those 2 be arrested on Apr 24th 1915. Born Hovhannisian in Constantinople 1878. Pioneer 4her time, she not only received education, but abroad, at Sorbonne. Started feminism way before it had a name. #DiscoverArmenianCulture 16/

One of the greatest marks of the Armenian identity is the Armenian language. Serious scholarship placed Armenian among the wider family of Indo-European languages, although it forms its own separate branch within that group. #DiscoverArmenianCulture
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The duduk is easily the most recognisable Armenian musical instrument. it is considered to be a national symbol, a status that was cemented with UNESCO recognition in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008. #DiscoverArmenianCulture
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Karahunj, an ancient site in modern Armenia that is believed by some to be the remains of an astronomical observatory, much older than StoneHenge. The ancient Armenian calendar had names for everything – hours, days, and months. #DiscoverArmenianCulture
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Armenian presence in North America dates back 1618. Earliest records date back to “Martin the Armenian” brought in to the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1618. More Armenians were invited in the following decades 2 experiment with raising silkworms. #DiscoverArmenianCulture 20/

Areni-1 winery is a 6100-year-old winery that was discovered in 2007 in the cave complex in the village of Areni in the Vayots Dzor province.
Churchill was so impressed with Armenian brandy that he asked 4 cases of it 2 be sent 2 him each year
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