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Gevorg I Of Armenia
Gevorg ( hy, Գևորգ), also spelled Gevork and pronounced and transliterated as Kevork in Western Armenian, is the Armenian version of the name George. Bearers include: ;Gevorg *Gevorg Bashinjaghian (1857–1925), painter *Gevorg Emin (1918–1998), writer *Gevorg Karapetyan (footballer, born 1963), Lebanese-Armenian footballer *Gevorg Karapetyan (born 1990), Armenian footballer *Gevorg Ghazaryan (born 1988), football player ;Gevork *Gevork Kotiantz (1909–1996), painter *Gevork Vartanian (1924–2012), Soviet intelligence agent ;Kevork *Kevork Ajemian (Adjemian) (1932–1998), Armenian writer, journalist, novelist, theorist and public activist, one of the founders of ASALA *Kevork Aslan, Armenian historian *Kevork Chavush (1865–1907), Armenian fedayi in the Ottoman Empire * Kevork Hovnanian (1923–2009), Iraqi-born Armenian-American businessman and home builder, who founder of ''Hovnanian Enterprises'' in 1959 * Kevork Malikyan (born 1943), English character actor of Arm ... [...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 langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George (name)
George () is a masculine given name derived from the Greek Geōrgios (; , ). The name gained popularity due to its association with the Christian martyr, Saint George (died 23 April 303), a member of the Praetorian Guard who was sentenced to death for his refusal to renounce Christianity, and prior to that, it might have been a theophoric name, with origins in Zeus Georgos, an early title of the Greek god Zeus. Today, it is one of the most commonly used names in the Western world, though its religious significance has waned among modern populations. Its diminutives are Geordie and Georgie, with the former being limited primarily to residents of England and Scotland. The most popular feminine forms in the Anglosphere, are Georgia, Georgiana, and Georgina. History Etymology and origins Its original Greek form, Georgios, is based on the Greek word ''georgos'' (γεωργός) 'farmer'. The word ''georgos'' itself is ultimately a combination of two Greek words: ''ge'' (γ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gevorg Bashinjaghian
Gevorg Bashinjaghian ( hy, Գևորգ Բաշինջաղյան; – 4 October 1925) was an Armenian painter who had significant influence on Armenian landscape painting. Life Bashinjaghian was born on 16 September 1857 in a small town of Sighnaghi in eastern Georgian province of Kakheti, part of the Russian Empire at the time. His father, Zakar, died in 1872 during a trip to Persia, when he was 15. After finishing the local school, he was admitted to the Arts School. In 1878, Bashinjaghian moved to the Russian capital St. Petersburg, where he became a student at the Imperial Academy of Arts a year later. Mikhail Clodt was one of his teachers. He graduated from the Academy in 1883, also winning a silver medal for his ''Birch Grove''. He returned to his hometown Sighnaghi the same year and soon started to travel throughout the Caucasus: Lake Sevan, Yerevan, Ashtarak and the holy capital of the Armenian Church - Ejmiatsin, Georgia and the Northern Caucasus, which caused the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gevorg Emin
Gevorg Emin (, September 30, 1919 – June 11, 1998) was an Armenian poet, essayist, and translator. Biography Emin, the son of a school teacher, was born in the town of Ashtarak. In 1927, his family moved to Yerevan, the capital of Soviet Armenia. In 1936 he finished secondary school; in 1940 he graduated from the local Polytechnical Institute as a hydraulic engineer. After graduation he designed and supervised the building of a hydroelectric power station which is still producing electricity. The power station remained his only engineering accomplishment. In school, Emin met Armenia's leading poet Yegishe Charents, who died in 1937 in a Soviet prison. Emin recalls in his preface to ''For You on New Year's Day'': :''Today if I write instead of building canals and power plants it is due to two things: the impact of meeting Yeghishe Charents, and second, the touch of ancient manuscripts at the Matenadaran library where I worked as a student and could read and hold the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gevorg Karapetyan (footballer, Born 1963)
Gevorg Zhorzhiki Karapetyan (; ; born 15 December 1963) is a professional football coach and former player who is the assistant coach of club Ansar. Born in Armenia, Karapetyan played as a defender or midfielder. He moved to Lebanon in 1993 and played for the Lebanon national team. Managerial career On 22 March 2021, Karapetyan was announced assistant coach of Ansar. On 5 January 2022, following the resignation of Robert Jaspert, Karapetyan was appointed interim coach of Ansar, leading them in their 2–0 win against Safa four days later. Career statistics International :''Scores and results list Lebanon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Karapetyan goal''. Honours Player Homenmen Beirut * Lebanese Second Division: 2002–03 * Lebanese FA Cup runner-up: 1993–94 Ansar * Lebanese Premier League: 1997–98, 1998–99 * Lebanese FA Cup: 1998–99; runner-up: 2000–01 * Lebanese Elite Cup: 1997, 2000; runner-up: 1998 * Lebanese Federation Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gevorg Karapetyan
Gevorg Gagik Karapetyan ( hy, Գևորգ Գագիկի Կարապետյան; born 10 June 1990) is an Armenian former footballer who played as a forward. Club career Youth From 2007 to 2008, Karapetyan competed in the Armenian First League as part of the reserve squad of FC Ararat. He scored 10 league goals in 37 matches and appeared in three additional Armenian Independence Cup over that time. Senior For the 2009 season, Karapetyan was promoted to the first team squad at FC Ararat and stayed with the club until 2011. In total, he scored 22 goals in 22 matches as Ararat split time between the Armenian First League and Armenian Premier League. In 2012, he moved to FC Banants, also of the Premier League. He stayed with the club until 2015, scoring 28 goals in 70 league matches. He also appeared in several matches for the club in 2014–15 UEFA Champions League qualification. The following season, he played for fellow Premier League club FC Mika, making 12 appearances and scori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gevorg Ghazaryan
Gevorg Ghazaryan ( hy, Գևորգ Ղազարյան; born 5 April 1988) is an Armenian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for the Armenia national team. Ghazaryan has participated in 73 international matches, scoring 14 goals since his debut on 14 January 2007. He previously played for Greek Super League clubs Olympiacos and Kerkyra, and earlier for Pyunik. Club career Pyunik In the 2004 Armenian Premier League season, Ghazaryan played for the youth team FC Pyunik, performing in the First League. For the next season, he debuted in the senior first team. On 6 July 2005, Ghazaryan came to the Lernagorts Stadium against the same command, replacing in the half-time interval with Aghvan Mkrtchyan. His first goal for the club happened the following season. On 24 May 2006, in a game against Shirak FC, Ghazaryan entered the field at the 55th minute of the match and, after five minutes, scored his first goal. In the same match, he scored his se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gevork Kotiantz
Gevork Vartanovich Kotiantz ( hy, Գևորգ Վարդանի Կոթյանց; russian: Гево́рк Варта́нович Котья́нц; 12 November 1909 in Shusha, Shusha uezd, Elizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire – 28 August 1996 in Saint Petersburg, Russia ) was a Soviet, Russian - Armenian painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. Biography He was born on 12 November 1909 in Shusha, Elizavetpol Governorate in the family of craftsman jeweler. In the same year his family moved to the North Caucasus in Pyatigorsk. In 1927-1929 Kotiantz engaged in a private Art studio in Pyatigorsk, independently studied paintings of outstanding artists of the past through books and reproductions, and a lot painted from the life. In 1929 he became a member of the Pyatigorsk branch of the AKhR — Association of Artists of the Revolution (russian: link=no, Ассоциация художников револю ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gevork Vartanian
Gevork Andreevich Vartanian ( hy, Գևորգ Վարդանյան, russian: Гево́рк Андре́евич Вартаня́н; 17 February 1924 – 10 January 2012) was a Soviet intelligence officer. He was primarily responsible, together with his wife Goar Vartanian, for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. Early life Vartanian was born to Armenian parents in Nor Nakhichevan, USSR. His father was a Soviet intelligence agent as well who was sent to Persia in 1930, where he worked for 23 years under a cover of a wealthy merchant. Gevork Vartanian was not even 16 when he went into intelligence. On 4 February 1940, he made contact with the Tehran residency of Soviet intelligence, including Ivan Agayants. In Tehran, Vartanian formed a pro-Soviet group, who were identified by Iranian police in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevork Ajemian
Kevork Vartani Ajemian (''Adjemian'') (in Armenian Գևորգ Աճեմյան, in Western Armenian Գէորգ Աճեմեան) (May 23, 1932 – December 27, 1998) was a prominent Lebanese-Armenian writer, journalist, novelist, theorist and public activist, and long-time publisher of the Beirut-based literary, artistic and general publication '' Spurk'' (in Armenian Սփիւռք). Ajemian was a co-founder of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) military organization. Biography Ajemian was born in Manbij, near Aleppo, Syria, into a family of survivors of the Armenian genocide, originally from Sasun. He studied in Aleppo, then in 1952 he moved to Beirut. Ajemian graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1958. He taught Armenian and English language and literature in some Armenian schools of Beirut and Cyprus for a few years. He was the editor of '' The Daily Star'' in Beirut, contributed to ''Shirak'' and ''Graser'' Armenian literary magazines. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevork Aslan
Kevork Aslan was an Armenian engineer born in 1849 who graduated from École Centrale de Paris in 1872 and later became chief engineer in the Aydin province (Turkey). In 1909, he published a historical study of the Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ... people. Books * * ''Armenia and the Armenians from the Earliest Times Until the Great War'' - (1409782565) (1914) References Armenian engineers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Armenian historians {{Armenia-historian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevork Chavush
Kevork Ghazarian ( hy, Գէորգ Ղազարեան; 1870 – 28 May 1907), commonly known as Kevork Chavush or Gevorg Chaush ( hy, Գէորգ Չաւուշ or Գևորգ Չաուշ), was an Armenian '' fedayee'' leader in the Ottoman Empire and a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. Kevork Chavush attained a legendary status during his lifetime for his extraordinary daring and valor in defense of the Armenian peasantry against harassment by marauding Turkish and Kurdish forces. He was the undisputed leader of Armenian revolutionary forces in the region of Taron- Sasun from 1904 until his death in 1907 after being wounded in a battle with the Ottoman army. Kevork's actions earned him the moniker "Lion of the Mountains" ( hy, Սարերու Ասլան). Early life Kevork Chavush was born Kevork Ghazarian (although his surname is given as Adamian or Melkonian in various sources) to a family of hunters in the region of Sasun, in the village of Mktink of the Psank (Psanat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
