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William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, to Armenian immigrant parents from Turkish (Western) Armenia.The Armenian community in Fresno—already significant by the 1910s—grew larger by the influx of genocide survivors and Saroyan grew up in an Armenian environment. [3]
William Saroyan was born on August 31, 1908, in Fresno, California, to Armenak and Takuhi Saroyan, Armenian immigrants from Bitlis, Ottoman Empire.His father came to New York in 1905 and started preaching in Armenian Apostolic churches.
Armenia, also the Kingdom of Greater Armenia [9] or simply Greater Armenia or Armenia Major (Armenian: Մեծ Հայք Mets Hayk; [10] Latin: Armenia Maior), sometimes referred to as the Armenian Empire under Tigranes II, was an Armenian kingdom in the Ancient Near East which existed from 331 BC to 428 AD.
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The national liberation movement of the Balkan peoples and the immediate involvement of the European powers in the Eastern question had a powerful effect on the development of the national liberation ideology movement among the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire. [103] The Armenian national movement, besides its individual heroes, was an organized ...
The famed Armenian-American writer William Saroyan wrote a short story titled Antranik of Armenia, which was included in his collection of short stories Inhale and Exhale (1936). [165] Another US-based Armenian writer Hamastegh's novel The White Horseman (Սպիտակ Ձիավորը, 1952) was based on Andranik and other fedayi.
Of Armenian descent, Varaz Samuelian was born in Yerevan, Armenia. [3] His parents were survivors of the Armenian genocide. [1] [4] Samuelian eventually settled in France. During his time in Paris, Samuelian studied with renowned painters such as Othon Friesz, André Lhote and Fernand Léger. [3] During World War II he was a German prisoner of ...
1915 April 24: Hundreds of Armenian intellectuals deported from Constantinople into central Anatolia. 1915 April–May: Defense of Van (1915) 1915 May 27: Tehcir Law. The mass deportation of Ottoman Empire's Armenian population begins. 1915 June: Shabin-Karahisar uprising, Musa Dagh Resistance; 1915 July 26: Russians capture Manzikert