History
In the year 451 AD, this Armenian military leader and later Saint led Armenia to victory against the advancing Sassanian Persian armies in the plain of Avarayr. Protecting the role of Armenian Christianity against Zoroastrianism.
Vartan Mamikonian
Born in the Khaketi province of this neighboring country to Armenia, Gevork Bashinjaghian was a landscape painter having depicted Ararat famously in his 1912 piece.
Georgia
In 405 AD this Armenian linguist created the Armenian alphabet upon studying various scripts of the Near East he was able to compile the new Armenian alphabet beginning a new era for Armenian literature.
Mesrop Mashtots
This soccer player has the most goals scored for the men’s national team of Armenia. He began his career at Pyunik Yerevan and went on to win the Europa League with Manchester United in 2017.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
The proposed borders and state of the first Republic of Armenia was named after this American democratic president of the early 20th century.
Woodrow Wilson
This Armenian painter known as a seascape painter also painted Niagara Falls. He was born in Crimea in modern-day Ukraine.
Ivan Aivazovsky
Founded by Levon Shant and Nikol Aghpalian in Cairo of 1928, this cultural organization would go on to oversee the publishing of thousands of works in Armenian literature particularly in the Armenian diaspora communities.
Hamazkayin
This chess grandmaster of Armenian descent born in Baku went on to represent Russia. He is credited with being the youngest ever chess champion at age 23 defeating former champion Anatoly Karpov.
Garry Kasparov
She was the only woman on the deportation list as prepared by the Young Turks for April 24th which began the Armenian Genocide. Later on she fell victim to the Stalinist purges of the 1930s, targeting cultural figures of Soviet Armenia.
Zabel Yesayan
Vostanik Manoug Adoian later took on this pen name upon his entry into the art world. He was born in Western Armenia’s Van region and mainly worked as an abstract expressionist.
Arshile Gorky
His short story “The Man with the Heart in the Highlands” was adapted into a feature film in Armenia in 1975. His family left their native town of Bitlis and settled in Fresno, California where he was born in 1908.
William Saroyan
This Armenian soccer team won the Soviet League and Cup in 1973. Defeating Dynamo Kyiv in the final. They went on to win the cup again in 1975.
Ararat Yerevan
The German explorer Frederick Perot attempted to climb Mt. Ararat with this Armenian writer companion. His works include “Wounds of Armenia” among others, he is credited with beginning the era of modern Armenian literature.
Khachatur Abovyan
Founder of the modern Armenian national school of painting, this Armenian artist born in Nor-Nakhijevan, Russia even proposed an unused version of the Armenian flag. He was one of the only leading cultural figures spared during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.
Martiros Saryan
This 1880 epic by Hakop Melik-Hakopian also known as Raffi, is an early example of Armenia’s national awakening through literature. The premise of the novel is among a divided Armenian nation and the hero that emerges therein.
The Fool
(Խենթը)
Shavarsh Krissian was an Armenian soccer player and founder of Homenetmen. The organization was established in this city of the late Ottoman Empire.
Constantinople
Amongst the Armenian presence in the French resistance, she was one of the Armenian emigré writers who took up arms against the Nazis in France during World War Two. She died in the Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1945.
Louise Aslanian
This rug is located in Washington D.C. and was given to President Calvin Coolidge as a gift in 1925. It was woven by Armenian orphans of the Armenian Genocide and has been preserved in the White House ever since.
Armenian Orphan Rug
Although the first time Armenian letters appeared in a published work was in 1486, this book was first Armenian language work to be published by a printing press in the year 1512. Done so by Hakop Meghapart.
Book of Friday Prayers
(Ուրբաթագիրք)
This Armenian soccer player won the World Cup with the French national team in 1998 and also the European Cup in the year 2000.
Yuri Djorkaeff