The History and Culture of Armenians Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

in addition to designing postage stamps (pictured), Armenian painter Arshak Fetvadjian also painted the monuments of the medieval Armenian city of Ani.

prominent Soviet Armenian finswimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saved 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen from a dam into the Erevan reservoir.

the Byzantine theme of Lykandos, which played an important role in the Byzantine–Arab wars of the early 10th century, was founded by Melias, an Armenian prince, and settled by Armenians.

Vakıflı is the only ethnic Armenian village in Turkey.

Tigranakert was a center of Armenian culture until the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when the population was eradicated and replaced by Kurds.

Armenian Byzantinist Hrach Bartikyan wrote the introductions and translated select writings of Procopius, Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, and John Scylitzes from Greek into Armenian.

Armenian merchant Coja Petrus Uscan built the first ever bridge across the Adyar River in Madras.

Dushanbe riots in 1990 were sparked by the rumour that a couple of thousand Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan had been resettled to Dushanbe.

13th-century Armenian historian and scholar Vardan Areveltsi was a religious adviser to Doquz Khatun, the wife of Ilkhanate Mongol leader Hulagu Khan.

The History and Culture of Armenians

1 For example, a community has existed for over a millennium in the Holy Land, and one of the four quarters of the walled old city of Jerusalem has been called the ________.

2 The Armenians developed close social, cultural, military, and religious ties with nearby Crusader States, but eventually succumbed to the ________ invaders.

3 The first Armenian churches were built on the orders of ________, and were often built on top of pagan temples, and imitated some aspects of Armenian pre-Christian architecture.

4 Armenians are also present in every country in Latin America, with the largest concentrations being found in Brazil, ________, Uruguay, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

5 What is the population of Armenians?

6 The Armenians (Armenian: հայեր, hayer) are a nation and ethnic group which originated in the ________ and the Armenian Highland.

7 In football, their most successful team was Yerevan's FC Ararat, which had claimed most of the Soviet championships in the 70s and had also gone to post victories against professional clubs like ________ in the Euro cup.

8 What region do Armenians belong to?

9 What is the metropolitan population of Armenians?

10 What does the following picture show? St. Mesrob Mashtots invented the Armenian alphabet in the year 406. Armenian-populated regions in Anatolia and the Transcaucasus in the year 1896. Armenian-populated regions in Anatolia and the Transcaucasus in the year 1896. Traditional Armenian Dance

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