Arpa Posted November 25, 2003 Report Share Posted November 25, 2003 Akhalkalak; means Nor Qaghaq in Vratseren.The administrative center of the Akhalkalak region. The city is surrounded by 64 villages. According to 1970 statistics, 90.8% Armenian, 5.7% Georgian and 3.5% others........ The regions comprises Mets Hayks' Javakh region of the date of Gugarq. In 387 AD the Sasanians, along with the others regions of Gugarq, joined it to the Georgian Marzpany........ In 1065 the Seljuks pillaged the city and its main feature, the fortress of Tmmovk/Tmmug, better known as Tmbuk Berd, or TmbkaBerd. Hey Movses! How come this is not in the POETRY site? Tmbkaberdi Arum@, by Hovannes Toumanian Hey baronner, akanj areqTaparakan ashughin,Sirun tiknayq, jahel tgherq,Lav ush dreq im khaghin. To see the complete article; http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg77486.html A Tiny Georgian Town Left in LimboBy Natalia Antelava, Special to The Moscow Times The Moscow TimesMonday, Nov. 24, 2003. Page 1 For MTSoldiers guarding the entrance to the Russian basein Akhalkalaki, Georgia, where the 128th motorized rifle division isstationed. AKHALKALAKI, Georgia -- For most of his 16 years,Artyom Manukyanhas dreamed of becoming an actor. But inAkhalkalaki, a small townin Georgia, no dream is easy to achieve.========Historically, the area was of strategic andeconomic importance,a flash point for Turkish and Russian ambitions inthe CaucasusIn Akhalkalaki, whose name means "new town" inGeorgian, not onepaved road exists, salaries and pensions stayunpaid for months ata time and unemployment is widespread.Like Artyom Manukyan, around 96 percent ofAkhalkalaki's 13,000residents are ethnic Armenian. The remaining 4percent are Russiansoldiers, stationed at a giant military base on ahill overlookingthe town, one of Russia's last remaining bases inthe South Caucasus.=============The fear dates back to the time of World War I,when Armenians say 1.5million people died from starvation, disease,brutality and massacrebetween 1915 and 1923 in a genocidal campaign toforce Armenians outof eastern Turkey. Turkey rejects the accusationof genocide and saysArmenians were killed during civil unrest.****============ Akhalkalaki Map; Note the grey areas where Armenian is exclusivley spoken.http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/didac...auk/kaukasn.htm Is it time to reverse the proscess and rewrite Tmbgaberdi Arum@? Only this time "arum" in the sense of "take"? *** We may think this is a recent discovery. Raffi has that same argument of "Armenians siding with the Russians" in his Khent. See Raffi Kojian's Cilcicia.com chapter 28, Note that this was written in 1881, 34 years before the big G; "Turks. He explained why the Turks of Van had burned several thousand Armenian shops and plundered them of their goods. "Because," he said, "the Armenians there were spying for the Russians. After all," he added, "in this war, the Armenian need not expect gain from the Russians." And again returning to the subject of faithfulness he said the Turks are not as bad as we think; the fate of the Armenian is" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted November 25, 2003 Report Share Posted November 25, 2003 "Hey Movses! How come this is not in the POETRY site" it will be soon. our new office will be working in Armenia soon and poetry is #1 on my list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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