The groundbreaking new book ‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years: Ani, Kars, and the Six Provinces of Western Armenia’ will be released by the Stone Garden Press on February 15, 2015. This new book by author Matthew Karanian is the first-ever guide to cultural sites of the vast and ancient Armenian homeland that is located in…
Karanian Seeks to Elevate Western Armenia in Consciousness of Armenians with New Book
One hundred years after the Medz Yeghern, the Armenian homeland remains unknown to many Armenians and non-Armenians alike. The new book ‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years’ by Matthew Karanian (Stone Garden Press, Pub. February 15, 2015) seeks to change this. There are many reasons that the Armenian homeland has remained off the map for travelers…
Note About the Names Historic Armenia, Western Armenia, and Armenian Plateau
‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years’ uses the name Western Armenia to refer to the six Armenian provinces of the Ottoman Empire. The book uses the name Eastern Armenia to refer to the lands of Ani and Kars. Since both of these regions are historically part of Greater Armenia, and since the book features both areas,…
Ani, The Mighty Armenian Capital of One Thousand and One Churches
BY MATTHEW KARANIAN Ani is the fabled city of one thousand-and-one churches and the capital of a once-mighty Armenian kingdom. The city flourished during an Armenian silver age that lasted for about a century beginning in AD 961. For the past three hundred fifty years, however, the city has been largely abandoned, and it has…
Van: A Cradle of Armenian Civilization
BY MATTHEW KARANIAN Van is the heartland of historic Armenia, and the region of Van is paired with the plains of Ararat as two of the cradles of Armenian civilization. For hundreds of years, and continuing through the beginning of the twentieth century, the population of Armenians here often exceeded that of any other national…
Kharpert: The Golden Plain of the Armenian Plateau
BY MATTHEW KARANIAN Kharpert is the Voski Dasht, the Golden Plain, of the Armenian Plateau. This area, which is the site of historic Armenian settlement of Tsopk, and which is known in today’s Turkey as Harpoot, is also one of the oldest areas of Armenian habitation. Some scholars believe that Kharpert may even be the…
The Hidden Armenians of Western Armenia
BY MATTHEW KARANIAN The village of Chunkush was home to about 10,000 Armenians, and hardly anyone else, until 1915. That’s when the Armenians were driven out, and were marched for two hours to a ravine known as the Dudan Gorge. Once they arrived at the ravine, they were herded by the force of batons and…