HIS366H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Armenian Diaspora, Role Of Christianity In Civilization, Barbed Wire
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Armenian diaspora la is the site of the largest concentraion of armenian diaspora. There are 100,000 in sa and 300,000 in france. The largest dispersion is in the soviet union, 1. 5 million people. The otoman empire organised people within the millet system, which classiied them by religion so this reinforced religious idenity, and went on to extend the power of the armenian naion church. By the late 1880s, there were sporadic massacres of armenians in the otoman"s eastern provinces. Pan-turkish naionalism ( we"re all turkish, there"s no room for anything else! ) Some armenians set up ani-empire guerilla forces in 1914. Watching a movie about armenia and the armenian genocide. Armenia is home to one of the oldest chrisian civilizaion in a nearly all-muslim sea. They had to deal with otoman invaders who ravaged a major part of their ancestral territory. They regained independence in 1991 ater being part of the soviet union.
