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The National Library of Armenia ( Armenian: Հայաստանի ազգային գրադարան ⓘ) is a national public library in Yerevan, Armenia. It was founded in 1832 as part of the state gymnasium-school of Yerevan. It is the official cultural repository for the entire republic.
The Library contains over 26,000 cataloged titles on a wide range of Armenian subjects. The earliest is the Garabed Gospel of AD 1207. The library has one of the largest collections of important books on oriental rugs, and a very substantial collection, which continues to be expanded, on the Armenian genocide. It also holds a significant number ...
In 1939 the entire collection of manuscripts of Etchmiadzin were transferred to the State Public Library in Yerevan (what later became the National Library of Armenia) by the decision of the Soviet Armenian government. [30] [2] In the same year there were 9,382 catalogued manuscripts at the Matenadaran. [32]
The Mekhitarist Monastery of Vienna ( German: Wiener Mechitaristenkloster; [5] Armenian: Վիեննայի Մխիթարեան վանք, Viennayi Mkhit′arean vank′) is one of the two monasteries of the Armenian Catholic Mekhitarist (Mechitharist) Congregation, located in Vienna, Austria. The main center of the order is located in San Lazzaro ...
Armenia (/ ɑːr ˈ m iː n i ə / ⓘ ar-MEE-nee-ə), [13] [b] officially the Republic of Armenia, [c] is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. [14] [15] It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. [16]
Avetik Isahakyan Central Library, officially Yerevan Municipality “City Central Library after Avetik Isahakyan” communal non-commercial organization (Armenian: Երևանի Քաղաքապետարանի «Ավետիք Իսահակյանի անվան Կենտրոնական գրադարան» ՀՈԱԿ) is a public library in Yerevan, Armenia ...
The National Children's Library Named After Khnko Aper ( Armenian: Խնկո Ապոր անվան ազգային մանկական գրադարան, romanized : Khnko Apor anvan azgayin mankakan gradaran) is a national children's library in Yerevan, Armenia. It was founded in 1933 and renamed after the famous children's writer Khnko Aper ( Atabek ...
The art form flourished in Greater Armenia, Lesser Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora. Its appearance dates back to the creation of the Armenian alphabet in Armenia, in the year 405 AD. Very few fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 6th and 7th centuries have survived. The oldest fully preserved manuscript dates from the 9th century.