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"A Red stripe born from the blood,
A piece of Blue carved from the sky,
Orange shine of ripe stacks in the fields
and over six centuries of darkness
a Tricolor flag..."
Antranig Tzarougian
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Armenians
around the world
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Total population: |
2004:
8 million est. |
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Significant populations in: |
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Armenia: |
3–3.5 million
est. |
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Russia: |
2–2.5 million
est. |
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Georgia: |
248,900–400,000
est. |
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United States: |
385,488 (2000
census) — 1 million est. |
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France: |
250,000
est. |
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Iran:
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200,000 est. |
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Nagorno-Karabakh: |
156,000 est. |
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South America: |
150,000
est. |
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Syria:
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100,000
est. |
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Lebanon:
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75,000 est. |
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Iraq: |
60,000 est. |
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Turkey:
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50,000
est. |
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Canada:
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40,505 (2001
census) — 100,000
est. |
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Rest of world:
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100,000
est. |
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Language: |
Armenian language and the local
languages of various countries. |
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Religion: |
Armenian Apostolic Church
Armenian Catholic Church
Various Protestant denominations,
especially in the Diaspora. |
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Aram
Manoogian
The ARF member,
soldier and commander, teacher, minister,
and skillful organizer, well known for his
efforts in Baku and Kars, and his success in
organizing the battle of Sardarabad.
Manoogian, led his life under the flag of
the Dashnaktsutiun—inspired by the party's
ideas.
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"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never
thinks he gets as much as he deserves".
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It is my
nature
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"… it is simply in the
nature of an Armenian to study, to learn, to
question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to
revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to
give."
William
Saroyan |
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Armenia
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Armenia
(Armenian: Հայաստան Hayastan, Hayq) is a landlocked
country in southern Caucasus, between the Black Sea
and the Caspian Sea, bordered by Turkey to the west,
Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan in the east and
Iran and the Naxçıvan exclave of Azerbaijan in the
south. Armenia is a member of the Council of Europe
and the Commonwealth of Independent States and for
centuries has been on the crossroads between West
and East. The country is formally named the Republic
of Armenia. |
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Administrative Provinces
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The Serenity
Prayer |
God grant me
the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference. |
 
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Xeghtamah-Siamanto
Mer Hayrenik
