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Karapet or Garabet or Garabed is a common Armenian given name. They may refer to: *a pre-Christian Armenian thunder-god, Karapet Religion *Karabet ( hy, Կարապետ, link=no) or Garabed (Western Armenian), the Armenian name for '' prodromos'', referring to John the Baptist *St. Karapet, a church of the Noravank monastery * Saint Karapet Monastery, at Glak, a 4th-century Armenian monastery *Karapet, a church of the Khtzkonk monastery near Ani * Saint Karapet Church, Tbilisi, Armenian church in Tbilisi, Georgia Given name Karapet * Karapet II of Armenia (died 1729), Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (1726–1729) * Karapet Chobanyan (born 1927), Armenian scientist * Karapet Karapetyan (born 1982), also known as Karapet Papijan, Armenian-Dutch kickboxer *Karapet Mikaelyan (born 1969), Russia-born Armenian football (soccer) player *Karapet Rubinyan (born 1957), Armenian politician * Karapet Utudjian (1823–1904), Armenian Ottoman journalist, publicist, and writer *Ka ...
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Armenian Mythology
Armenian mythology originated in ancient Indo-European traditions, specifically Proto-Armenian, and gradually incorporated Hurro- Urartian, Mesopotamian, Iranian, and Greek beliefs and deities."Armenia (Vannic)" by A.H. Sayce, p.793-4; "Armenia (Zoroastrian)", by M(ardiros). H. Ananikian, p.794-802; in Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, ed. James Hastingsvol. 1 1908 Formation of Armenian mythology The pantheon of Armenian gods, initially worshipped by Proto-Armenians, inherited their essential elements from the religious beliefs and mythologies of the Proto-Indo-Europeans and peoples of the Armenian Highlands. Historians distinguish a significant body of Indo-European language words which were used in Armenian pagan rites. The oldest cults are believed to have worshipped a creator called Ar (or possibly Ara), embodied as the sun (Arev or Areg); the ancient Armenians called themselves "children of the sun". Also among the most ancient types of Indo-European-derived ...
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Karapet (bridge Player)
Victor Mollo (17 September 1909 – 24 September 1987) was a British contract bridge player, journalist and author. He is most famous for his "Menagerie" series of bridge books, depicting vivid caricatures of players with animal names and mannerisms through a series of exciting and entertaining deals—bridge fables of a sort. Biography Mollo was born in St. Petersburg into a wealthy Russian-Jewish family. When he was eight, the October Revolution occurred and his family fled Russia, travelling by a purchased train, with forged Red Cross papers, crossing into Finland, then Stockholm, Paris and finally London. Mollo attended Cordwalles School but neglected his studies and devoted himself to bridge. As an editor in the European service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, he began to write books and articles on the game. After retirement in 1969, Mollo started to write even more extensively, and up to his death in 1987 he wrote 30 books and hundreds of articles. He was a ...
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Karo (name)
Karo is an Armenian given name, a shortened version of the Armenian given name Karapet ( Eastern Armenian) / Garabed (Western Armenian). The Western Armenian variant of Karo is Garo. Given name * Karo Ghafadaryan (1907–1976), Soviet Armenian archaeologist, historian, and epigraphist * Karo Haghverdian (born 1945), Iranian-Armenian football player * Karo Halabyan (1897-1959), Soviet Armenian architect * Karo Mkrtchyan (1951–2001), Armenian painter * Karo Murat (born 1983), Armenian-German professional boxer * Karo Parisyan (born 1982), Armenian-American mixed martial arts fighter * Karo Bonas (born 1984), Persian born Legend and Personality * Karo Lumis (born 1980), Papua New Guinean cricketer Surname * Aaron Karo (born 1979), American author and comedian * Armen Karo (or Garo) (1872–1923), Armenian nationalist politician * Ezekiel Karo (1844–1915), German rabbi and historian * Henry Arnold Karo (1903–1986), vice admiral in the United States Coast and Geodetic ...
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Karapetyan
Karapetyan, Karapetian or Garabedian ( hy, Կարապետյան , in Western Armenian Կարապետեան) is an Armenian surname. It can refer to: Garabedian * Charles Garabedian (1923-2016), U.S. artist * Edna Garabedian (born ?), U.S. opera singer and director * John Garabedian (born 1941), U.S. radio personality * Khachadour Paul Garabedian (1836–1881), Ottoman-born Armenian-American Navy Sailor *Mitchell Garabedian (born 1951), American lawyer known for representing sexual abuse victims *Paul Garabedian (1927–2010), U.S. applied mathematician and numerical analyst * Varoujan Garabedian (also as Varadjian Garbidjian, born 1954), Syrian-Armenian militant Garapedian * Carla Garapedian (born c. 1970's), U.S. (expatriate in the U.K.) documentary filmmaker Karapetian * Farrah Karapetian (born 1978), American photographer * Aleksandre Karapetian (born 1987), Armenian footballer Karapetyan * Andranik Karapetyan (born 1995), Armenian weightlifter * Aram Karapetyan (born 19 ...
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Garabet Yazmaciyan
Garabet Yazmaciyan ( hy, Կարապետ Եազմաճեան, 1868 – 1929) was a prominent Ottoman painter of Armenian descent. Life According to the register of deaths in the Church of Surp Takavor in Kadıköy, Yazmaciyan was born in Üsküdar and his wife's name was Deruni. Yazmaciyan came from a family of three children who were born and grew up in Üsküdar. He was an introvert man, and a skilled violinist. His first wife, a relative of Nubar Pasha, was twenty years older than himself and died four years after they got married. Yazmaciyan's house burned down, and nothing but a few paintings were saved. While carrying these paintings to a friend's shop in Kadıköy, he was attacked and beaten by thieves, who took the paintings. For some time after this, Yazmaciyan was unable to speak from shock. He lived in the shop of this same friend in Kadıköy for a while, until he made the acquittance of a widow named Sirpuhi, whose daughter was studying Latin in Italy. Sirpuhi and ...
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Garabet Ibrăileanu
Garabet Ibrăileanu (; May 23, 1871 – March 11, 1936) was a Romanian- Armenian literary critic and theorist, writer, translator, sociologist, University of Iași professor (1908–1934), and, together with Paul Bujor and Constantin Stere, for long main editor of the ''Viața Românească'' literary magazine between 1906 and 1930. He published many of his works under the pen name Cezar Vraja. Biography Ibrăileanu was born into a family of Armenian origin, in Târgu Frumos, Iași County, and attended the Roman-Vodă High School in Roman. During the 1890s, he was attracted to Socialism, and began a collaboration with the left-wing press - periodicals such as ''Munca'' and ''Adevărul''. He adopted part of the themes and goals expressed by the defunct ''Junimea'', merging them with the ideas of Marxist thinker Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, into a new form of Romanian populism, making it the main attribute of the magazine he led. He is remembered as the first mentor to suc ...
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Garabet Balyan
The Balyan family ( hy, Պալեաններ; tr, Balyan ailesi or ''Palyan ailesi'') was a prominent Armenian family in the Ottoman Empire consisting of court architects in the service of Ottoman sultans and other members of the Ottoman dynasty during the 18th and 19th centuries. For five generations, they designed and constructed numerous major buildings in the Ottoman Empire, including palaces, mansions, konaks, kiosks, yalis, mosques, churches, and various public buildings, mostly in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul). Ancestors Bali the Mason Bali or Balen the Mason ( tr, Meremmetçi Bali Kalfa or ''Meremmetçi Balen Kalfa''), a masonry craftsman from the Belen village of Karaman in central Anatolia, was the founder of the dynasty. He moved to Istanbul, where he learned of an Armenian palace architect of Sultan Mehmed IV (1648–1687), whom he met and replaced, being Armenian himself. When Bali died in 1725, his son Magar took his place as architect at the sul ...
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Garo Yepremian
Garabed Sarkis "Garo" Yepremian (June 2, 1944 – May 15, 2015) was a Cypriot-Armenian American football placekicker who played in the National Football League for 15 seasons, primarily with the Miami Dolphins. During his nine seasons in Miami, Yepremian was named to two Pro Bowls, twice received first-team All-Pro honors, and helped the Dolphins win two Super Bowl titles. Yepremian's first championship victory in Super Bowl VII occurred as a member of the 1972 Dolphins, the only team to complete a perfect season in NFL history. He also played for the Detroit Lions, New Orleans Saints, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers before retiring in 1981. Early years Yepremian was born in Larnaca, Cyprus, to Armenian parents. Yepremian and his brother, Krikor, who attended Indiana University on a soccer scholarship, immigrated to the United States. Yepremian, who had earlier played in an organized soccer league in London, was not eligible to play NCAA football. After watching some of a f ...
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Garabed Pashayan Khan
Karapet Pashayan (1864, Constantinople – 1915) was an Armenian physician, doctor and public activist. He finished the Medical College of Constantinople in 1888, then worked as a doctor in Balu and Malatia provinces. In 1890 he was arrested for the support of Armenian fedayee groups, was sentenced to death but then released after the mediation of British consul's family. In 1895 he moved to Iran and became the Persian shah's doctor. For his efforts he was awarded by the ''khan'' title. In 1903-1906 Pashayan lived in Alexandria, Egypt, where he founded an Armenian school and a printing house. In 1908 after the Young Turk revolution he returned to Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya ( Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ... and was elected as a member of Ottoman parliament. In 1915 he was ar ...
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Karapet or Garabet or Garabed is a common Armenian given name. They may refer to: *a pre-Christian Armenian thunder-god, Karapet Religion *Karabet ( hy, Կարապետ, link=no) or Garabed (Western Armenian), the Armenian name for '' prodromos'', referring to John the Baptist *St. Karapet, a church of the Noravank monastery * Saint Karapet Monastery, at Glak, a 4th-century Armenian monastery *Karapet, a church of the Khtzkonk monastery near Ani * Saint Karapet Church, Tbilisi, Armenian church in Tbilisi, Georgia Given name Karapet * Karapet II of Armenia (died 1729), Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (1726–1729) * Karapet Chobanyan (born 1927), Armenian scientist * Karapet Karapetyan (born 1982), also known as Karapet Papijan, Armenian-Dutch kickboxer * Karapet Mikaelyan (born 1969), Russia-born Armenian football (soccer) player *Karapet Rubinyan (born 1957), Armenian politician * Karapet Utudjian (1823–1904), Armenian Ottoman journalist, publicist, and writer * ...
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Garabed "Chuck" Haytaian
Garabed "Chuck" Haytaian (born January 28, 1938) is an American Republican Party politician, who was the Speaker of the New Jersey State Assembly during the 'tax revolt' of the James Florio – Christine Todd Whitman era. He is of Armenian descent. Political career He served in the General Assembly from 1982 to 1996. In 1994, he staged an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the United States Senate, falling to incumbent Frank Lautenberg, 50%-47%. Haytaian was the Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee from 1995 to 2001. Personal life Haytaian, born in the Bronx, has been a resident of Independence Township, New Jersey. Sexual Harassment Accusation In 1996, Beth Herbert, administrative assistant at the State House brought sexual harassment charges against Haytaian. She claimed that over a fifteen-month period, Haytaian would periodically call her into his office and molest her. The worst incidents, according to Herbert, took place after his failed Senate ...
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Karapetê Xaço
Karapetê Xaço or Karabêtê Xaço or Gerabêtê Xaço ( hy, Կարապետ Խաչո) (September 3, 1900 Salihe Kevirbiri, ''Bir Çığlığın Yüzyılı: Karapetê Xaço'', Si Yayınları, İstanbul, 2002, p. 66. or 1903 or 1908 - January 15, 2005), was an Armenian singer of traditional Kurdish '' Dengbêj'' music. Karapetê Haço was born in the village of Bileyder (now called Binatlı, Batman, in Batman province, Turkey) in the Ottoman Empire to an Armenian family in 1900. In 1915, he witnessed the annihilation of his village during the Armenian genocide. Xaço, his brother Abraham, and sisters Manuşak and Xezal survived the massacre, as a soldier spared them dues to them being orphaned. He was saved by his knowledge of Kurmanji and his singing talent. He jouned the Kurdish rebels during the Sheikh Said Rebellion and had to flee to Syria in the French Mandate after the rebellion was defeated. At a young age, he began taking a liking for music and would sing old Kurdish fo ...
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