Ashot A. Melkonyan (born 16 February 1961 in Akhalkalak, Javakhk,

Georgian SSR The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Georgian SSR; ka, საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა, tr; russian: Грузинская Советская Соц� ...

) is Doctor of History, Professor, Academician of Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Since 2002 he is the Director of the

Institute of History of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NAS RA) ( hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետության գիտությունների ազգային ակադեմիա, ՀՀ ԳԱԱ, ''Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan gitut’yunneri az ...

Biography

He finished the Faculty of History of the

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 191 ...

in 1982, and received his PhD in history at YSU in 1989. From 2002 to present he is a Lecturer of the Chair of History of Armenia at the Yerevan State University. Melkonyan is an author of historical studies (including monographs and over 350 articles). The works are devoted mainly to the history of the

Western Armenia Western Armenia (Western Armenian: Արեւմտեան Հայաստան, ''Arevmdian Hayasdan'') is a term to refer to the eastern parts of Turkey (formerly the Ottoman Empire) that are part of the historical homeland of the Armenians. Weste ...

, the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through th ...

, Javakhk, the Armenian-Georgian relations, the historical demography of Armenia. He is a member of the association of historians of the EENI countries.

Awards

* Andranik Ozanyan medal (2013), * Movses Khorenatsi medal (2003). * "Haykashen Uzunyan" Prize of Tekeyan Cultural Union (for his "Javakhk in the 19th Century and the 1st Quarter of the 20th Century" monography, 2004). * Prize of Armenia Fund (for his "Erzerum" monography, 1994). * Honorary citizen of Akhalkalak (2009).Biography, YSU Official site
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Bibliography

in English

* Javakhk in the 19th Century and the 1st Quarter of the 20th Century (A Historical Research), Yerevan, 2007, 256 pages.

References

External links

Ashot Melkonyan's biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Melkonyan, Ashot Ethnic Armenian historians 1961 births People from Samtskhe–Javakheti Georgian people of Armenian descent 20th-century historians from Georgia (country) Living people 21st-century historians from Georgia (country)