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Friends, a U.S. congressional committee approved a bill last week that would officially recognize as "genocide" the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I. The vote provoked outrage in Turkey and cheers in Armenia. At KnowledgeNews HQ, it provoked a desire to learn more about Armenia, from ancient roots to recent atrocities and more.

Ancient Armenia

Armenia's ancient roots run all the way back to Biblical times. Some scholars even connect the place with the birth of civilization. The country's geographical heyday actually came in the first century BC, when King Tigranes the Great built a short-lived empire stretching from Syria to Georgia (that's the Georgia between Turkey and Russia, where Armenia lies, too).

In AD 301, Armenia--then under Roman rule--became the first nation in the world to adopt Christianity as its state religion. The Armenian Apostolic Church has since played a pivotal part in preserving Armenian culture and identity. It's had to. For most of the last two millennia, bigger powers have dominated Armenia politically: Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Turks, and Russians, to name a few.

During the 16th century, most of ancient Armenia fell under Ottoman Turkish rule. During the 19th century, imperial Russia crept into the region and assumed control of some Armenian lands. Late in the century, while the Ottoman and Russian empires eyed each other suspiciously, Armenian nationalists began calling for independence.

Recent Atrocities

Both empires responded by repressing this new Armenian nationalism, but especially the Ottomans, who massacred hundreds of thousands of Armenians between 1894 and 1896. Sadly, the killing didn't stop then. During World War I, from 1915 to 1917, the Ottomans conducted a series of deportations and mass killings that many scholars count as the first example of 20th-century genocide.

Hundreds of thousands of Armenians--perhaps as many as 1.5 million of them--died in those dark days. The Turkish government hotly contests the use of the term "genocide" to describe what happened. It argues for lower fatality figures and blames many of the deaths on famine and fighting. But none of that makes the numbers any easier to stomach.

Continuing Conflicts

After the war, Armenia enjoyed a brief bit of independence--until Russia's Red Army came calling in 1920. The nation remained under Soviet control until 1991, when the Soviet Union itself collapsed. By then, Armenia was engaged in a still-unresolved conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan. At issue: control of Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnically Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan.

In 1988, Nagorno-Karabakh voted to secede from Azerbaijan. Armenia supported the secessionists, and ethnic fighting followed. Negotiations to resolve the conflict have been ongoing since 1992, and a ceasefire has largely held since 1994. But Armenians continue to hold more than 10 percent of Azerbaijan. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan and Turkey continue to blockade Armenia, creating serious economic problems for the landlocked, resource-poor nation.

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First, welcome to a2k.

Several people here know some history on some of the nations you list, sometimes even much history, and many details, but this may not be your most efficient way to get a broad array of at least beginning data on that list (to then even begin to conject what is true or not).

I trust you've looked at both google and wikipedia? What you find there may be seeming data, but would be a start.

For the avatar, there is a how to post an avatar thread in the help forum. (Sorry, no immediate link from me). Try that first. If that doesn't work, and it might not, click on HELP at the bottom of the page, small blue letters, and, when they have time - they are few, and busy, people - the mods will help you.

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Yes I have gone to wikipedia and ask.
Thanks, for the avatar help I've already been to that thread, but everything I do just dose'nt work so I'm just going to give up on that.
But it means alot that you care.

No, don't give up on the avatar. There has been a problem with them for a while and the mods can help you. So fill out that HELP ticket that you find when you click on help at the bottom of the page, and they'll get to it when they get a minute to breathe from, for example, eternal spam that they protect us from.

As a clue, a2k is in a transition period to a redesigned site, and all the design energy is going into that, but the mods can help on a lot of matters, given patience, patience, as they also have lives and are volunteers.

Thanks ...
I've already been given help from another user

Sorry, I read over the bit that you said one or more.

Hang on, some people may be by to post on one or more.

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