Kirakos Gandzaketsi was a 13th-century Armenian historian whose "History of Armenia" describes the first Mongol invasions of Armenia through the eyes of an eyewitness. The article presents his life, the structure of his work, and the conquest of Northern Armenia.
On the night of April 24, 1915, arrests of the Armenian intelligentsia began in Constantinople, which became the symbol of the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. Among those arrested were Komitas, Daniel Varuzhan, Siamanto, Ruben Sevak, and Yervand Otyan.
During the revolutionary wave of 1905–1906, the Armenian population of Transcaucasia became the target of mass violence. The article presents the background to the confiscation of church properties, the events of February 1905 in Baku, and the self-defense of the Armenians.
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