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The devastating 1988 earthquake that killed over 25,000 Armenians and destroyed entire cities, becoming a turning point in Soviet history and sparking unprecedented international humanitarian response.
How the desperate 1918 Battle of Sardarapat saved the Armenian nation from complete annihilation and led to the declaration of the First Republic of Armenia.
The tragic story of Komitas Vardapet, the priest and musicologist who preserved thousands of Armenian folk songs, only to be destroyed by the trauma of the Armenian Genocide.
On September 21, 1991, Armenia declared independence from the Soviet Union, establishing the Third Republic of Armenia and beginning a new chapter in the nation history.
The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic's journey from forced incorporation in 1920 to the triumphant declaration of independence in 1991.
The systematic destruction of Ottoman Armenians (1915-1916) and the ongoing global struggle for its acknowledgment as genocide.
