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Vartan Matiossian
Vartan Matiossian (Վարդան Մատթէոսեան in Armenian) (born March 6, 1964) is a diasporan Armenian historian, translator and editor. He is currently Executive Director of the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church (New York) and book review editor for ''Armenian Review''. Biography Matiossian was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on March 6, 1964. He moved to Buenos Aires in 1973. In 1991 he graduated from the School of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. From 1992 to 2000, he was associate professor of Armenian History and Religion at the School of Eastern Studies, Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires). He has lived in New Jersey, USA since 2000. In 2006 he earned his Ph.D. in history from the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. He was director of the Armenian National Education Committee (New York) from 2010-2019. His fields of interest cover Armenian history and literature, both ancient and modern. He is an active contributor to the peri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the country, on the northeastern bank of the Río de la Plata. The city was established in 1724 by a Spanish soldier, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst the Spanish people, Spanish-Portuguese people, Portuguese dispute over the La Plata Basin, platine region. It was also under brief British invasions of the Río de la Plata, British rule in 1807, but eventually the city was retaken by Spanish criollos who defeated the British invasions of the River Plate. Montevideo is the seat of the administrative headquarters of Mercosur and ALADI, Latin America's leading trade blocs, a position that entailed comparisons to the role of Brussels in Europe. The 2019 Mercer's report on qual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenian Literature
Armenian literature begins around AD 400 with the invention of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop Mashtots. History Early literature Only a handful of fragments have survived from the most ancient Armenian literary tradition preceding the Christianization of Armenia in the early 4th century due to centuries of concerted effort by the Armenian Church to eradicate the "pagan tradition". Christian Armenian literature begins about 406 with the invention of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop for the purpose of translating Biblical books into Armenian. Isaac, the Catholicos of Armenia, formed a school of translators who were sent to Edessa, Athens, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Caesarea in Cappadocia, and elsewhere, to procure codices both in Syriac and Greek and translate them. From Syriac were made the first version of the New Testament, the version of Eusebius' History and his Life of Constantine (unless this be from the original Greek), the homilies of Aphraates, the Acts of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Ethnic Armenian Historians
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University Of Buenos Aires Alumni
A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate education, undergraduate and postgraduate education, postgraduate programs. In the United States, the designation is reserved for colleges that have a graduate school. The word ''university'' is derived from the Latin ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The first universities were created in Europe by Catholic Church monks. The University of Bologna (''Università di Bologna''), founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *Being a high degree-awarding institute. *Having independence from the ecclesiastic schools, although conducted by both clergy and non-clergy. *Using the word ''universitas'' (which was coined at its foundation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uruguayan Emigrants To Argentina
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is part of the Southern Cone region of South America. Uruguay covers an area of approximately and has a population of an estimated 3.4 million, of whom around 2 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Montevideo. The area that became Uruguay was first inhabited by groups of hunter–gatherers 13,000 years ago. The predominant tribe at the moment of the arrival of Europeans was the Charrúa people, when the Portuguese first established Colónia do Sacramento in 1680; Uruguay was colonized by Europeans late relative to neighboring countries. The Spanish founded Montevideo as a military stronghold in the early 18th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uruguayan People Of Armenian Descent
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is part of the Southern Cone region of South America. Uruguay covers an area of approximately and has a population of an estimated 3.4 million, of whom around 2 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Montevideo. The area that became Uruguay was first inhabited by groups of hunter–gatherers 13,000 years ago. The predominant tribe at the moment of the arrival of Europeans was the Charrúa people, when the Portuguese first established Colónia do Sacramento in 1680; Uruguay was colonized by Europeans late relative to neighboring countries. The Spanish founded Montevideo as a military stronghold in the early 18th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Montevideo
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Susanna Mkrtchyan
Susanna Mkrtchyan (Armenian:''Սուսաննա Մկրտչյան'') (born August 26, 1949) is an Armenian Wikimedian and a professor of database and system research. She founded and leads the Wikimedia Armenia chapter, which organizes outreach and workshops to improve the Armenian Wikipedia, including an annual conference. In 2015, she received an Honourable mention in the context of the annual award Wikimedian of the Year attributed by Jimmy Wales. Life and work Mkrtchyan was born in Yerevan. She studied at Avetik Isahakyan School in Yerevan, and later attended the Manuk Abeghyan school with a focus on physics, graduating with honors. In 1966-1971 she studied computing at the mathematics faculty of Yerevan State University Yerevan State University (YSU; hy, Երևանի Պետական Համալսարան, ԵՊՀ, ''Yerevani Petakan Hamalsaran''), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919 .... In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artsvi Bakhchinyan
Artsvi Bakhchinyan ( hy, Արծվի Բախչինյան, born 1971 in Yerevan) is an Armenian philologist, film researcher, writer, Armenologist, and Doctor of philology. Biography Artsvi Bakhchinyan received his Diploma in Armenian Language and Literature from the Yerevan State University in 1993. He has been engaged in research on famous Armenians, Armenian art and culture for many years. Bakhchinyan published his first book, ''They are Armenian by origin'', in 1993. The book contained concise biographies of famous Armenians who had lived and worked in foreign countries. The second, revised and completed edition of the book was published in 2002. Since 2001 Bakhchinyan is the Vice-President of FIPRESCI's Armenian branch, a member of jury of international film festivals. He cooperates with the Golden Apricot Yerevan International film festival since its establishment in 2004. Bakhchinyan is the jury coordinator of ''ReAnimania'' film festival. From 1993 to 1996 Bakhchinyan studied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedros Hadjian
Bedrós Hadjian ( hy, Պետրոս Հաճեան; January 24, 1933 in Jarabulus, Syria – September 3, 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Buenos Aires-based Syrian Armenian writer, educator and journalist. In 1954 he became the headteacher of the Armenian school of Deir el Zor, in northern Syria, one of the destination points of Armenians marched off by Ottoman authorities during the 1915 Armenian genocide. After teaching Armenian History and Literature at the Haygazian Armenian School of Aleppo from the mid-1960s, Hadjian was named in 1968 principal of the Karen Jeppe Gemaran, the biggest Armenian secondary school of Aleppo and one of the most prominent in the Armenian diaspora. In 1970 Hadjian moved to Buenos Aires as the headmaster of the Instituto Educativo San Gregorio El Iluminador, one of the biggest Armenian schools in South America. He also became the editor of ''Armenia,'' an Armenian-language daily newspaper that became a weekly in the late 1980s, from 1971-1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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