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Tag Archives: Armenia
An afternoon south of the river: finding Armenians in Iran and how civilization begun.
“…a wicked regime where anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial is official ideology, and with […] killing of women just because they’re women” – Sarah Palin The south bank of the dried Zāyanderūd river is Armenian at heart. This piece of Iran, long … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Iran
Tagged Armenia, Assyrian, Christianity, Church, Clay, Cob, Farsi, Iran, Isfahan, Islam, Mesopotamia, Middle East, Mosques, Mud, Mud wall, Sumeric, Sun baked bricks, Ur, Vank
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Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?
The service on the Azerbaijan Airlines flight was appalling. Having been treated to an atrocious pre-flight video, an attendant who clearly desired to be everywhere but there started thrashing around cups of weak coffee and tried, indolently, to sell stale … Continue reading
Posted in Armenia, Caucasus, Europe
Tagged Armenia, Armenian Genocide, Genocide, Germany, Ottoman Empire, Syria, Turkey, WWI, Yerevan, Yerevan Memorial
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Potholes, bribes and a Foreign Office advice. Riding the marshutka to Yerevan.
It is said that Paul of Tarsus, whilst riding from Jerusalem to Damascus, was blinded by an intense light, spoke with a divine entity and, there and then, found his faith and converted to Christianity. Now, I haven’t been blinded … Continue reading
Posted in Armenia, Caucasus, Georgia
Tagged Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Foreign Office, Georgia, Kirants, M16, Marshutka, Mercedes, Mountains, Nagorno-Karabach, Tbilisi, Villages, Yerevan
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Notes from the fringes of the Empire: Yerevan.
Yerevan lies in a bowl shaped like the tongue of a cat, delimited on one side by the Hrazdan gorge, and on the others by steep hills, on which stand strange perches and other abstruse relics of the Soviet past. … Continue reading
Posted in Armenia, Caucasus, Europe
Tagged Ararat, Armenia, Caucasus, City, Iron Curtain, Metro, Russia, Soviet Union, Turkey, USSR, Yerevan
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