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Demirchyan Kev
Demirchyan or Demirchian or Demirjian ( hy, Դեմիրճյան, Western Armenian Տէմիրճեան) is an Armenian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Demirchyan *Derenik Demirchian (1877–1956), Georgian-born Armenian poet, writer, translator and playwright *Hovhannes Demirchyan (born 1975), Armenian footballer *Karen Demirchyan (1932–1999), Soviet Armenian communist politician * Stepan Demirchyan (born 1959), Armenian politician Demirjian * Eddie Demirjian, Lebanese Armenian politician * Hovig Demirjian (born 1989), Cypriot Armenian singer, also known by the mononym Hovig *Karoun Demirjian Karoun A. Demirjian (born April 28, 1981) is a multimedia international journalist and freelance reporter at the ''Washington Post'' covering defense and foreign policy and was previously a correspondent based in the Post's bureau in Moscow. She ... (born 1981), American Armenian multimedia international journalist and freelance reporter {{surname, Demirchyan Armenian-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Armenian
Western Armenian ( Classical spelling: , ) is one of the two standardized forms of Modern Armenian, the other being Eastern Armenian. It is based mainly on the Istanbul Armenian dialect, as opposed to Eastern Armenian, which is mainly based on the Yerevan Armenian dialect. Until the early 20th century, various Western Armenian dialects were also spoken in the Ottoman Empire, especially in the eastern regions historically populated by Armenians known as Western Armenia. The spoken or dialectal varieties of Western Armenian currently in use include Homshetsi, spoken by the Hemshin peoples; the dialects of Armenians of Kessab, Latakia and Jisr al-Shughur of Syria, Anjar of Lebanon, and Istanbul and Vakıflı, of Turkey (part of the "Sueidia" dialect). Sasun and Mush dialect is also spoken in modern-day Armenia villages such as Bazmaberd and Sasnashen. The Cilician dialect is also spoken in Cyprus, where it is taught in Armenian schools (Nareg), and is the first language of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derenik Demirchian
Derenik Karapeti Demirchian ( hy, Դերենիկ Կարապետի Դեմիրճյան) was a Soviet and Armenian writer, novelist, poet, translator and playwright. Biography Demirchian was born on February 18, 1877, in Akhalkalaki in what is now Javakhk, southern Georgia. After completing his schooling in Tiflis, he became a member of the Armenian literary group Vernatun, so named because its members met in the 5th floor residence of poet Hovhannes Tumanian. Demirchian published his first book of poetry in 1899. He attended the University of Geneva from 1905 to 1909, and then after some years in Tiflis, settled in Yerevan in 1925. During the 1920s several of his plays were produced, most notably ''Nazar the Brave'', a rags to riches comedy about a folkloric figure which is based on a collation of over 60 sources by the poet Tumanian. Described by Demirchian as a play for “childlike adults and adultlike children,” ''Nazar the Brave'' was first performed in 1924. It was subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovhannes Demirchyan
Hovhannes Demirchyan (born 15 August 1975) is a retired Armenian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... player. National team statistics External links * Living people 1975 births Armenian footballers Armenia international footballers FC Shirak players FC Stal Alchevsk players Expatriate footballers in Ukraine Armenian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Ukrainian Premier League players Association football defenders {{Armenia-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Demirchyan
Karen Serobi Demirchyan ( hy, Կարեն Սերոբի Դեմիրճյան; 17 April 1932 – 27 October 1999) was a Soviet and Armenian politician. He served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1974 to 1988. Soon after his reemergence into active politics in independent Armenia in the late 1990s, he became President of the National Assembly in 1999 until his assassination with other politicians in parliament in the Armenian parliament shooting. Biography Demirchyan had a difficult childhood. Both his parents died when he was still an infant. He decided on a career in engineering, and took up studies at the Yerevan Polytechnical Institute in 1949. Anon. ''«Դեմիրճյան, Կարեն Սերոբի»'' (Demirchyan, Karen Serobi). Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. vol. iii. Yerevan, Armenian SSR: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1977, pg. 341. After graduating in 1954 he worked briefly for a research institute in Leningrad before returning to Armenia to jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepan Demirchyan
Stepan Kareni Demirchyan ( hy, Ստեփան Կարենի Դեմիրճյան; born June 7, 1959) is an Armenian politician and son of the Communist-era Armenian leader Karen Demirchyan. Biography Stepan Demirchyan was born in Yerevan and received his degree from Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1981. He is an engineer-electrician and a PhD on Technical Sciences. From 1981 to 1986 he worked first as a skilled worker and later senior skilled worker, supervisor-probationer, head of station and then deputy head of the assembly shop in the Electrical Engines Industrial Complex under the Ministry of Electrical Technologies Industry. From 1984 to 1986 he worked as an assistant engineer in the Electrical Engines Industrial Complex. From 1986 to 1988 he worked first as a chief engineer and later as acting director in the Construction Plant of Programming Equipment under the USSR Ministry of Equipment, Automation Means and Management Systems. The next fifteen years were spent as the genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Demirjian
Eddie Boghous Demirjian ( ar, ادي بوغوس دمرجيان) is a Lebanon, Lebanese Armenian Orthodox politician. Demirjian contested the 2009 Lebanese general election, standing as a candidate in the Bekaa I, Zahle electoral district. He obtained 2 votes. He again contested the Armenian Orthodox seat in Zahle in the 2018 Lebanese general election, standing on the list of Nicolas Fattouch. He was elected, having received 77 preference votes. ''Al-Modon'' References {{reflist M ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovig Demirjian
Hovig Demirjian ( gr, Χοβίγκ Ντεμιρτζιάν; Western Armenian: ; Eastern Armenian: ; born 3 January 1989), known professionally as Hovig, is a Greek Cypriot singer. He represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Gravity", finishing in 21st place. Life and career Hovig Demirjian or Demirdjian was born on 3 January 1989 in Nicosia, Cyprus, and is of Armenian descent. He studied marketing and worked in business, but quickly gave up in order to become a singer. He learned to play the guitar and piano and also studied jazz and vocals. His first major achievement was placing second in a musical competition in Larnaca. He became well known in Cyprus with the nickname "The Music Messenger". On June 1, 2009, he released "Den mou milas alithina (Istoria exei teleiwsei)" (in Greek "Δεν μού μιλάς - ιστορία έχει τελειώσει") under the mononym Hovig accompanied by a music video in preparation for the Greek ''X Factor''. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karoun Demirjian
Karoun A. Demirjian (born April 28, 1981) is a multimedia international journalist and freelance reporter at the ''Washington Post'' covering defense and foreign policy and was previously a correspondent based in the Post's bureau in Moscow. She has worked in Jordan, Russia, Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Germany. She is a classical soprano, and an amateur pianist and guitarist. She is fluent in Armenian and English, and conversational in Russian, German, Arabic, and Spanish. Early life Karoun was born to Karen Der Parseghian and Ara Demirjian. Karoun grew up just outside Boston and studied piano and voice in a musical home. She was a church soloist (soprano) at St. Stephen's Church Armenian Apostolic Church of Watertown, Massachusetts, where her mother, Karen Demirjian, was a long-time choir member and assistant organist. In college at Harvard (WHRB) and Tufts (WMFO, the college radio station on College Avenue), she worked as a classical disk jockey and migrated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
