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Sep 25

Turks in #Armenia & the rise of Zakarian Dynasty (1064-1220)

Turkish bands from Central Asia, particularly the Oghuz tribe, had been slowly raiding & settling parts of Azerbaijan, northern Caucasus, southern Russia, and even northern Asia Minor since 10th century. 1/
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The Byzantine policy of weakening Armenia by removing its military forces had left the region undefended & had invited marauding Turkish groups to attack southern Armenia. Until the arrival of the Seljuks in the 11th c., there was no organized Turkish plan to conquer Armenia. 2/

In 1040-45, an Oghuz chief, Toghrul of Seljuk family, conquered most of Persia & founded an empire. Seljuks soon faced a problem which confronted all nomadic conquerors in new territories, namely, how to deal with those in their tribes who wanted to continue to raid & plunder. 3/

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Sep 16

#ThisDay Sep 16, 1976, #Armenia'n finswimmer, Shavarsh Karapetyan saved the lives of 20 people in the #Yerevan Lake incident, when suddenly a trolleybus crashed into it. While most watched in horror, Karapetyan sprang into action. He had one goal: save as many people as possible.

The trolleybus lay at the bottom of the reservoir some 25 metres (80 ft) offshore at a depth of 10 metres (33 ft). Karapetyan swam to it and, despite conditions of almost zero visibility, due to the silt rising from the bottom, broke the back window with his legs.

The trolleybus was crowded, it carried 92 passengers, Karapetyan started bringing people up from the bottom of the lake, to his waiting brother. The combined effect of multiple lacerations from glass shards led to Karapetyan's hospitalization for 45 days.

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Sep 16

#ThisDay Sep 16, 1822, Tserents, a prominent Armenian writer, was born in Constantinople. Together with Raffi, Tserents was the founder of Armenian historical novel. Novel "Thoros of Levon" was dedicated to the tragic events in the history of #Armenia'n Kingdom of Cilicia, 12th c

His best known novel, The Travails of the 9th Century, reflects the liberation struggle of the Armenian people against the Abbasid Caliphate in the 9th century. Tserents' novel Theodoros Rshtuni is about the historic struggle of the 7th century for a strong centralized state.

Tserents studied at Venice, at the San Lazzaro degli Armeni of the Mekhitarist Order between 1831–1837 and continued his education in Paris (1848–1853). He returned to Constantinople in 1853 and lived for several years in Cyprus, working as a teacher & scientist.

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Sep 14

#OnThisDay, September 15, 1906, Dmitriy Nalbandyan, a prominent Soviet #Armenia'n painter, People's #Artist of the USSR, member of the USSR Academy of Arts, Hero of Socialist Labor & twice winner of the Stalin Prize, was born in Tiflis (now #Tbilisi), Russian Empire.

The beginning of Nalbandyan's artistic career happened to be during the 1930s, the time when active restructuring in the artistic sphere has begun, and Social Realism started to gain its momentum. He worked in the field of graphics, painted portraits, still lifes & landscapes.

In his work, the artist tried to convey the image of the typical Soviet man and reflect important episodes of the life of the Soviet Union, embodying the ideology of the Party and following the appeal for the formation of a new citizen and building a new society within Socialism.

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Sep 14

#OnThisDay Sep 15, 1918, the Ottoman Army of Islam captured #Baku. With the ethnic #Azerbaijan'i Turks at their side, they carried out a systematic massacre of the #Armenia'ns in the city, during which its estimated that 15,000 to 20,000 Armenians died.

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A terrible panic in Baku ensued once the Turks entered the city. The Armenians crowded the harbor in a frantic effort to escape. Regular Ottoman troops were not allowed to enter the city for 2 days, so that the local irregulars – bashibozuks – would conduct looting and pillaging.

Later, Ottoman troops participated alongside the irregulars & the Azeris of #Baku in the plundering, who then turned their fury against the city's #Armenia'n population. Calls by the German officers to treat the local population with leniency were ignored by Ottoman commanders.

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Sep 14

German independent MEP Martin Sonnebom addressing Ursula von der Leyen:

In order to break with a gas supplier who is waging a brutal war of aggression - Putin - you have found us another one who is waging a brutal war of aggression - Aliyev. 1/

#Azerbaijan #Armenia #EU

Although much of the German media is keeping quiet about this, this oil dictatorship, which you describe as a 'trustworthy partner', is currently attacking democratic #Armenia. 2/

That is a quite a choice you have made, because our new best friend, #Azerbaijan, is still far behind #Russia with regard to democracy, press freedom and civil liberties. 3/

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