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Vera Cemetery
Vera cemetery ( ka, ვერის სასაფლაო, hy, Վերայի գերեզմանատուն) is cemetery in Vera district in Tbilisi, Georgia. History The cemetery in Tbilisi Vera district was founded in 1836. In 1844 an Armenian church, Holy Cross (Surb Khach), was built inside the cemetery by David Tamashev's financial support. Later, the territory of cemetery was expanded. Many famous Armenians of Tiflis were buried in the cemetery, including: General Yeremia Artsuni, the first mayor of Tiflis; Harutyun Tumanyan, writer and teacher; landowner Natalia Skhhoyan; the businessman, industrialist and tobacco manufacturer Mikhail Bozarchyants; linguist, educator and armenologist Shahan Jrpetyan; the first zincographer of Tiflis Sarkis Soghomonyan; architect Gavril Ter-Mikelov; doctor Nikoghayos Khudadyan, etc. After 1920 funerals in the cemetery were stopped. Georganisation In 1992, with coming to power of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the cemetery was vandalized. Gamsakhu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the Capital city, capital and the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura (Caspian Sea), Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million people. Tbilisi was founded in the 5th century Anno Domini, AD by Vakhtang I of Iberia, and since then has served as the capital of various Georgian kingdoms and republics. Between 1801 and 1917, then part of the Russian Empire, Tiflis was the seat of the Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917), Caucasus Viceroyalty, governing both the North Caucasus, northern and the Transcaucasia, southern parts of the Caucasus. Because of its location on the crossroads between Europe and Asia, and its proximity to the lucrative Silk Road, throughout history Tbilisi was a point of contention among various global powers. The city's location to this day ensures its p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia (country)
Georgia (, ; ) is a transcontinental country at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is part of the Caucasus region, bounded by the Black Sea to the west, by Russia to the north and northeast, by Turkey to the southwest, by Armenia to the south, and by Azerbaijan to the southeast. The country covers an area of , and has a population of 3.7 million people. Tbilisi is its capital as well as its largest city, home to roughly a third of the Georgian population. During the classical era, several independent kingdoms became established in what is now Georgia, such as Colchis and Iberia. In the early 4th century, ethnic Georgians officially adopted Christianity, which contributed to the spiritual and political unification of the early Georgian states. In the Middle Ages, the unified Kingdom of Georgia emerged and reached its Golden Age during the reign of King David IV and Queen Tamar in the 12th and early 13th centuries. Thereafter, the kingdom decl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harutyun Tumanya
Harutyun ( hy, Հարություն and in Western Armenian Յարութիւն) also spelled Haroutioun, Harutiun and its variants Harout, Harut and Artin is a common male Armenian name; it means resurrection in Armenian. People with the name Harutyun * Harutyun Vardanyan (born 1970), Armenian football defender * Harutyun Gharmandarian (1910–1967), Armenian painter * Harutyun Karapetyan (born 1972), Armenian football (soccer) player * Harutyun Shmavonyan (1750–1824), priest and founder of Armenian journalism * Harutyun Sayatyan (1712–1795), Armenian musician and composer, more widely known as Sayat Nova Haroutioun * Haroutioun Hovanes Chakmakjian (1878–1973), Armenian American published scientist, chemistry professor and scholar Harout * Harout Chitilian (born 1980), Canadian city councillor from Montreal, Quebec of Lebanese Armenian origin * Harout Pamboukjian (born 1950), Armenian American pop singer, also known as Dzakh Harut Harut * Harut Grigorian (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahan Jrpetyan
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Shahan may refer to: Places * Shahan, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Upshur County *Shahan District, in Yemen People *Robert R. Shahan (born 1939), American bishop *Shahan Natalie (1884–1983), Armenian politician and activist *Shahan Shahnour (1903-1974), French-Armenian writer and poet * Shirley Shahan, American drag racer * Thomas Joseph Shahan (1857–1932), American Roman Catholic theologian and educator *Shahan Ali Mohsin, Indian race driver See also *Chahan (other) Chahan may refer to: Places * Chahan, Kerman, a village in Kerman province, Iran * Chahan, Iranshahr, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran * Chahan, Nik Shahr, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran Others * Chahan (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarkis Soghomonyan
Sarkis may refer to: * Sarkis, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Saint Sarkis the Warrior, a saint of the 4th century * Patriarch Sarkis of Jerusalem (other), three Armenian patriarchs, from the 13th to 16th centuries **Patriarch Sarkis I of Jerusalem (r. 1281–1313) **Patriarch Sarkis II of Jerusalem (r. 1394–1415) **Patriarch Sarkis III of Jerusalem (r. 1507–1517) *Sarkis I of Armenia, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 992 and 1019 *Sarkis II the Relic-Carrier, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1469 and 1474. * Aïbeg and Serkis, 13th century Mongol envoys Saint Sarkis / Mar Sarkis *Saint Sarkis also known as Saint Sergius -- see Saints Sergius and Bacchus *The Church of Saint Sarkis, Tekor known as Tekor Basilica, a 5th-century Armenian church built in historical Armenia, now in the town of Digor in the Kars Province of Turkey *Mar Sarkis, a number of churches and monasteries **Monastery of Mar Sarkis and Bakh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavril Ter-Mikelov
Gabriel Mikhaylovich Ter-Mikelov ( hy, Գափրիել Տեր-Միքաելյան Gabriel Ter-Mikelyan; 16 April 1874 in Stavropol, Russia – 14 January 1949 in Tbilisi, USSR) was a prominent architect of Armenian descent. Life According to Gabriel Ter-Mikelov's sister Suzanna Zohrabyan, the family's origins trace back to Karabakh and their original last name was Aslanbekyan. The family eventually settled in Tbilisi. During the occupation of Tbilisi by Mohammad Khan Qajar in 1795, the city was reduced to ashes and its Christian population were massacred. Almost all members of the Aslanbekyan family were murdered except for a two-year child who was saved by an Armenian priest Ter Mikayel. This child, who was the grandfather of Gavriil Ter-Mikelov, took up the Ter-Mikayelian last name and was later known as Ter-Mikelov due to Russification policies of Czarist Russia. His parents were both born in Tbilisi. Ter-Mikelov's father worked in many state run institutions and due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia ( ka, ზვიად გამსახურდია, tr; russian: Звиа́д Константи́нович Гамсаху́рдия, Zviad Konstantinovich Gamsakhurdiya; 31 March 1939 – 31 December 1993) was a Georgia (country), Georgian politician, dissident, scholar, and writer who became the President of Georgia#List of presidents of Georgia, first democratically elected President of Georgia in the post-Soviet era. A prominent exponent of Georgian nationalism, Zviad Gamsakhurdia was involved in Soviet dissidents, Soviet dissident movement from his early teens. In 1953, he was one of the founders of Gorgasliani, a nationalist group, which disseminated anti-Soviet proclamations in Tbilisi. His activities attracted attention of Soviet intelligence, and Gamsakhurdia was arrested and sent to imprisonment, although he was soon pardoned and released from jail. Gamsakhurdia co-founded the Georgian Helsinki Watch, Helsinki Group, which soug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nodar Gigauri
Nodar may refer to: *Nodar Akhalkatsi (1937–1998), Georgian football manager *Nodar Dumbadze (1928–1984), Georgian writer and one of the most popular authors in the late 20th-century Georgia * Nodar Dzhordzhikiya (born 1921), Soviet basketball player *Nodar Gvakhariya (born 1932), Georgian water polo player *Nodar Kancheli (born 1938), Russian architect who designed the Transvaal Park water park in Yasenevo and Basmanny Market *Nodar Khashba (born 1951), former prime minister of Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia *Nodar Khizanishvili (born 1953), retired Soviet football player of Georgian ethnicity * Nodar Kumaritashvili (1988–2010), Georgian Olympic athlete in luge, killed in an accident while training for the 2010 Winter Olympics * Nodar Mammadov, young Azerbaijani defender * Nodar Mgaloblishvili (born 1931), Soviet, Russian and Georgian theatrical actor See also *Robert Nodar, Jr. Robert Joseph Nodar Jr. (March 23, 1916 – September 11, 1974) was an American polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Pantaleon
Saint Pantaleon ( el, Παντελεήμων, russian: Пантелеи́мон, translit=Panteleímon; "all-compassionate"), counted in the West among the late-medieval Fourteen Holy Helpers and in the East as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletianic Persecution of 305 AD. Though there is evidence to suggest that a martyr named Pantaleon existed, some consider the stories of his life and death to be purely legendary. Life of Pantaleon According to the martyrologies, Pantaleon was the son of a rich pagan, Eustorgius of Nicomedia, and had been instructed in Christianity by his Christian mother, Saint Eubula; however, after her death he fell away from the Christian church, while he studied medicine with a renowned physician Euphrosinos; under the patronage of Euphrosinos he became physician to the emperor, Galerius. He was won back to Christianity by Saint Hermolaus (characterized as a bishop of the church at Nicomedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenians In Tbilisi
The Armenians have historically been one of the main ethnic groups in the city of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Armenians are the largest ethnic minority in Tbilisi at 4.8% of the population. Armenians migrated to the Georgian lands in the Middle Ages, during the Muslim rule of Armenia. They formed the single largest group of city's population in the 19th century. Official Georgian statistics of 2014 put the number of Armenians in Tbilisi at 53,409 people. Tbilisi or Tiflis (as most Armenians call it) was the center of cultural life of Armenians in the Russian Empire from early 19th century to early 20th century. History The Armenian history and contribution to the capital city of Tbilisi (known as Tiflis in Armenian, Russian, Persian, Azerbaijani and Turkish) is significant. After the Russian conquest of the area, Armenians fleeing persecution in the Ottoman Empire and Persia caused a jump in the Armenian population until it reached about 40% of the city total. Many of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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