The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: A History of the 'Blue Book'
By David Miller
The British Parliamentary ‘Blue Book’ on The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire (Misc 31 Cmnd 8325, HMSO 1916) is the largest single source of information on what happened to the Turkish Armenians in 1915-16. As such, it provides a focus of controversy between those who claim that it provides evidence of genocide, and those who maintain that because the Blue Book was wartime propaganda, its contents are not to be trusted. Ninety years after publication, the Blue Book is key to the question of whether the massacre and deportation of the Armenians was the result of a deliberate policy of extermination, or the unintended consequence of measures taken against the threat of foreign invasion and civil unrest.
[Patmutyun Aghvanits. History of Aghvank (Caucasian Albania) by Bishop Makar Parkhutaryan]
Vagharshapat, 1902
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This book is the first volume of two studies by Bishop Makar Parkhutariants about Karabakh, which provides valuable historical and ethnographic information about the region. Barkhudariants lived in the 19th century and was originally from Karabakh. He writes about his extensive travels in the regions of historical Aghvank and Artsakh, providing detailed description of the people, their customs, rituals, monuments of historical value , etc. The second volume of his work, the Land of Aghvank and its Neighbours: Artsakhwas republished in 1999 by Vem in Yerevan.
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In February 1988 the population of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous oblast (which was 85-per-cent Armenian) of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic demanded that it be made a part of the Armenian ...
The decline of “Armenian education” in Bulgaria and its consequences on preservation of identity is a constant concern of Bulgarian Armenian community leaders. They point out that at least two generations of Armenian Bulgarians have been virtually or completely assimilated due to the closure of Armenian schools during Communism.
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, hosted by Near and Middle East Department, Middle East Society and Armenian Studies at SOAS.
... Etchmiadzin, Armenia. Translated by Hratch Tchilingirian from the original Armenian. ::/introtext:: ::fulltext::Source: "Hairenik" monthly (Boston) 7 May 1924, pp 84-86. Komitas wrote ...