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1919 Armenian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia between 21 and 23 June 1919. The electoral system used was party-list proportional representation using the D'Hondt method in one national district.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p329 The result was a landslide victory for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) which won 72 of the 80 seats. However the election was boycotted by the Hunchaks and Populists. Voter turnout was 71.2%. The first republic ended when the country taken over by the Soviet Union the following year and multi-party elections were not held again until 1995. The ARF originally won 73 seats, but one seat was apparently assigned later to the Muslim faction, reducing the party's seat total to 72. Results Initial membership The elected deputies of the parliament were:Republic of Armenia Archives, File 66a/3, no. 105, 14 August 1919. References {{Armenian elections Armenia Armenia Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of Armenia
The National Assembly of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետության Ազգային ժողով, ''Hayastani Hanrapetyut'yan Azgayin zhoghov'' or simply Ազգային ժողով, ԱԺ ''Azgayin Zhoghov'', ''AZh''), also informally referred to as the Parliament of Armenia (խորհրդարան, ''khorhrdaran'') is the legislative branch of the government of Armenia. Overview The National Assembly was originally established in 1918 as the Khorhurd ( hy, Խորհուրդ) by the Armenian National Council following their declaration of independence. Acting as the nation's provisional legislative body, the Armenian National Council tripled its membership, forming an interim coalition government composed of Dashnaks and Populists. Following the Armenian parliamentary elections of 1919, the National Assembly's membership increased again up to 80 deputies including several minority representatives. The Khorhurd continued to function with an overwhelming Dashnak maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Armenian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 5 July 1995, with a second round on 29 July. There were 150 constituency seats and 40 elected on a national basis using proportional representation. The result was a victory for the Republic Bloc (an alliance of the Pan-Armenian National Movement, Democratic Liberal Party, Christian Democratic Union and the Republican Party of Armenia), which won 88 of the 190 seats.Nohlen ''et al.'', p335 Overall voter turnout was 54.3%. Following the election, the Republic Bloc and the Shamiram party formed a coalition government.classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ' ... 1995 in Armenia Parliamentary elections in Armenia 1990s in Armenian politics Election and referendum articles with incomplete results {{Portal bar, Politics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khosrov Babayan
Khosrov is a town in the Ararat Province of Armenia. See also * Khosrov Forest State Reserve * Ararat Province Ararat ( hy, Արարատ, ), is a province ('' marz'') of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is the town of Artashat. The province is named after the biblical Mount Ararat. It is bordered by Turkey from the west and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan ... References * Populated places in Ararat Province {{AraratAM-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artashes Babalian
Artashes Babalian ( hy, Արտաշես Ադամի Բաբալյան; November 17, 1886 – August 1, 1959) was an Armenian doctor, politician and public figure who served as the minster of social protection in the government of the First Republic of Armenia. Babalian was born in 1886 in Shushi, Karabakh. Babalian was also a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation The Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( hy, Հայ Յեղափոխական Դաշնակցութիւն, ՀՅԴ ( classical spelling), abbr. ARF or ARF-D) also known as Dashnaktsutyun (collectively referred to as Dashnaks for short), is an Armenian .... References External linksBabalyan on Orientica Encyclopaedia {{DEFAULTSORT:Babalian, Artashes 1886 births 1959 deaths Politicians from Shusha Armenian physicians People of the First Republic of Armenia Ministers of Social Protection of the First Republic of Armenia 20th-century physicians Soviet emigrants to Iran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerses Avazian
Nerses ( xcl, Ներսէս) is an Armenian variant of Narses. With the addition of -ian and -yan, it becomes an Armenian family name like Nersesian and Nersisyan. Nerses may refer to: Catholicoi of the Armenian Apostolic Church * Saint Nerses I or St. Nerses I, Catholicos of Armenia, also known as Nerses the Great (d. 373) * Nerses II of Armenia, Catholicos of Armenia, (d. 557) * Nerses III the Builder, Catholicos of Armenia, also known as Nerses the Builder (d. 661) * Nerses IV the Gracious, Catholicos of Cilicia, also known Nerses the Graceful (d. 1173) * Nerses V, Catholicos of Armenia (d. 1857) Caucasian Albanian Catholicoi *Four catholicoi and one anti-catholicos, see List of Caucasian Albanian Catholicoi Catholicoi-Patriarchs of the Armenian Catholic Church *Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, current patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church Other religious figures * Nerses Balients, also Nerses Balienc or Nerses Bagh'on, a Christian Armenian monk of the early 14th century * Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovsep Arghutian
Prince Hovsep Arghutian (; 1863 – 1925), also known as Khanasori Ishkhan and Ishkhan Arghutian, was an Armenian military commander and political activist. Biography Hovsep Arghutian was born in Sanahin, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire to an aristocratic family. His family drew its descent from the Armenian Argutinsky-Dolgorukov noble family . Arghutian graduated from the Nersisian Seminary in Tiflis and was a school teacher in the village of Jalaloghly (now Stepanavan, Armenia). In the late 1880s, he took up an active role in the Armenian affairs in the Ottoman Empire. In 1889, he made his way into the empire's eastern Anatolian provinces, where he worked with underground revolutionary groups, including the leader Arabo. He participated in the 1897 Khanasor Expedition. Afterward, he was arrested as a Russian citizen by Persian authorities and sent to Vologda, but was soon released. During the 1905-1907 Armenian-Tatar disturbances, he helped organized Armenian self-defense g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sargis Araratyan
Sargis Shahnazar Araratyan ( hy, Սարգիս Արարատյան; 1886–1943) was an Armenian politician who served as Ministry of Finance (Armenia), Minister of Finance of the First Republic of Armenia from 1919 to 1920 and Ministers of Social Protection of the First Republic of Armenia, Minister of Social Protection in 1920. Sargis Araratyan was a chemist by profession, as well as a public figure, a statesman and a prominent politician, a member of the ARF (Armenian Revolutionary Federation). He lived in Baku and took an active role in the Armenian National life. Hovannisian describes Sargis Araratian in The Republic of Armenia, Vol. II:... like other Dashnakist intellectuals, [Araratian] served as teacher, editor, and field-worker. Regarded as an incisive thinker, he was often consulted by highly placed comrades. At the time of the Persian Constitutional Revolution, Persian revolution in 1906 he was teaching at Tabriz, where he was closely associated with the Iranian Armenian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avetis Aharonian
Avetis Aharonian () (4 January 1866 – 20 March 1948) was an Armenian politician, writer, public figure and revolutionary, also part of the Armenian national movement. Biography Aharonian was born in 1866 in Surmali, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire (today Iğdır, Turkey). Growing up, he was influenced by the natural features of his birthplace, such as the Aras River and Mount Ararat, both of which were located near Surmali. His mother, Zardar, was a literate person, who was able to educate her child by teaching him how to read and write. After completing elementary education at the village's school, he was sent to Echmiadzin's Gevorkian Seminary, and graduated from there. He became a teacher for a few years, after which he went to Switzerland's University of Lausanne to study history and philosophy. During this period of time, he met Kristapor Mikaelian, who was then the chief editor of the Troshag (Flag) newspaper and befriends Télémaque Tutundjian de Vartavan, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikol Aghbalian
Nikol Poghosi Aghbalian ( hy, Նիկոլ Պողոսի Աղբալյան; 1875, Tiflis – 1947, Beirut) was an Armenian public figure and historian of literature, the editor of ''Horizon'' paper. Aghbalian was born in 1873 in Tbilisi. His primary education was in Tbilisi's Nersisyan school, followed by a seminary education. He studied at Moscow State University, then in Lausanne and Sorbonne, worked as a teacher in Agulis, Shusha and Tiflis, and headed the Armenian National college in Iran. In 1914 he returned to Russian Armenia and participated in the National Bureau, working with the survivors of Armenian genocide. In 1918-1920 he was a member of Parliament, and in 1919-1920 was appointed Minister of Education and Culture of the First Republic of Armenia. Armenian-American historian Richard G. Hovannisian describes Nikol Aghbalian in the second volume of ''The Republic of Armenia'':… Nikol Aghbalian was a gregarious intellectual and pedagogue whose restless disposition led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artashes Abeghyan
Artashes Gabrieli Abeghyan (also Abeghian) ( hy, Արտաշես Գաբրիելի Աբեղյան 1 January 1878, Astabad, Nakhchivan – 13 March 1955, Munich) was an Armenian philologist, historian, educator, activist and politician of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. He was the nephew of Armenian scholar Manuk Abeghyan, who was behind the Armenian orthography reform in the 1920s. He graduated from Nersisian School. During the period of the First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920), he served as a member of parliament. From 1926 to 1945, he was professor of Armenian Studies at the University of Berlin, and wrote prolifically in German on Armenology. During World War II, Abeghyan headed the ''Armenischen Nationalen Gremiums'' (Armenian National Council) in Berlin, a collaborationist body created by Nazi Germany. He also wrote for the ANG's newspaper titled ''Azat Hayastan'' ("Free Armenia"). His home was destroyed by the Allied bombing of Berlin, after which he fled to Stuttgart. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurds
ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. There are exclaves of Kurds in Central Anatolia, Khorasan, and the Caucasus, as well as significant Kurdish diaspora communities in the cities of western Turkey (in particular Istanbul) and Western Europe (primarily in Germany). The Kurdish population is estimated to be between 30 and 45 million. Kurds speak the Kurdish languages and the Zaza–Gorani languages, which belong to the Western Iranian branch of the Iranian languages. After World War I and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Western allies made provision for a Kurdish state in the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres. However, that promise was broken three years later, when the Treaty of Lausanne set the boundaries of modern Turkey and made no s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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