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A recently discovered archaeological site in Armenia … the city of Sisian. Nearby sits a high plateau where hundreds of ancient stones, some weighing more than fifty tons, stretch out over a third of a mile. Ancient Aliens s2e8: Unexplained Structures, History 2010
The century is inaugurated by an attempt to destroy the Christian Armenian population of the Ottoman empire – almost nearly successfully. Christopher Hitchens, New York University April 2010
I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms ... my entire body is hairless. Kim Kardashian
He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian. Woody Allen
The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it’s never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable. Khloe Kardashian
On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed. Eliot Engel
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. Joe Wurzelbacher
One hundred years ago Muslim Azerbaijan used to supply half the world’s oil. In recent years Western oil firms have invested vast sums here. But officially Azerbaijan is still at war with neighbouring Armenia. Simon Reeve, Holidays in the Danger Zone: Places that Don’t Exist V: Nagorno Karabakh, BBC 2005
Azerbaijan and Armenia got their independence but a small mountainous area called Nagorno Karabakh triggered war. ibid.
In September last year Armenia and Azerbaijan went to war. In 44 days of fighting, the fortunes of the two countries and their peoples were turned upside down … So who really won this war? And what does the future hold for people who have lived through and lost so much? Our World: Who Won the Karabakh War? BBC 2021
Two neighbours, two wars, the bitterest of enemies. Nagorno Karabakh is an Armenian-majority area inside Azerbaijan’s international borders. In 1992 a long-running dispute over who should control it turned into war. Armenia invaded taking over Najorno Karabakh and the surrounding areas. ibid.
An Armenian genocide … In 1915 they numbered over two millions, many of them concentrated in their traditional heartlands, in north-east Turkey. Today there are scarcely 40,000 left. Turkey’s Armenians have simply vanished … All were fervent Christians. Secret History: The Hidden Holocaust: The Armenian Genocide, Channel 4 1992
They were marched off never to be seen again. Their homes and goods were confiscated. ibid.