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1919 Armenian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in First Republic of Armenia, Armenia between 21 and 23 June 1919. The result was a landslide victory for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) which won 72 of the 80 seats. However, the elections were boycotted by the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party, Hunchaks and Armenian Populist Party, Populists. Voter turnout was 71%. The First Republic of Armenia, first republic ended with the Soviet Union, Soviet takeover the following year. The ARF originally won 73 seats, but one seat was apparently assigned later to the Muslim faction, reducing the party's seat total to 72. Electoral system The 80 seats in the National Assembly were elected via Closed list, closed party-list proportional representation using the D'Hondt method in one national district.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p329 All citizens over the age of 20 were eligible to participate. Results Initial membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
National Assembly Of Armenia
The National Assembly of Armenia (, ''Hayastani Hanrapetyut'yan Azgayin zhoghov'' or simply Ազգային ժողով, ԱԺ, ''Azgayin Zhoghov'', ''AZh''), also informally referred to as the Parliament of Armenia (խորհրդարան, ''khorhrdaran'') is the Legislature, legislative branch of the Government of Armenia, government of Armenia. Overview The National Assembly was originally established in 1918 as the Khorhurd () by the Armenian National Council (1917–18), Armenian National Council following their First Republic of Armenia, declaration of independence. Acting as the nation's provisional legislative body, the Armenian National Council tripled its membership, forming an interim coalition government composed of Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Dashnaks and Armenian Populist Party, Populists. Following the 1919 Armenian parliamentary election, Armenian parliamentary elections of 1919, the National Assembly's membership increased again up to 80 deputies including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Party-list Proportional Representation
Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a system of proportional representation based on preregistered Political party, political parties, with each party being Apportionment (politics), allocated a certain number of seats Apportionment (politics), roughly proportional to their share of the vote. In these systems, parties provide lists of candidates to be elected, or candidates may declare their affiliation with a political party (in some open-list systems). Seats are distributed by election authorities to each party, in proportion to the number of votes the party receives. Voters may cast votes for parties, as in Spain, Turkey, and Israel (Closed list, closed lists); or for candidates whose vote totals are pooled together to parties, as in Finland, Brazil, and the Netherlands (mixed single vote or panachage). Voting In most party list systems, a voter will only support one party (a Choose-one voting, choose-one ballot). Open list systems may allow voters to suppor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Artashes Babalian
Artashes Babalian (; November 17, 1886 – August 1, 1959) was an Armenian doctor, politician and public figure who served as the minister of social protection in the government of the First Republic of Armenia. Babalian was born in 1886 in Shushi, Karabakh. Babalian was also a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (, abbr. ARF (ՀՅԴ) or ARF-D), also known as Dashnaktsutyun (Armenians, Armenian: Դաշնակցություն, Literal translation, lit. "Federation"), is an Armenian nationalism, Armenian nationalist a .... References External linksBabalyan on Orientica Encyclopaedia {{DEFAULTSORT:Babalian, Artashes 1886 births 1959 deaths Politicians from Shusha Armenian physicians People from the First Republic of Armenia Ministers of social protection of the First Republic of Armenia 20th-century physicians Soviet emigrants to Iran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nerses Avazian
Nerses () is an Armenian variant of Narses. With the addition of -ian and -yan, it becomes an Armenian family name like Nersesian and Nersisyan. Nerses may refer to: Given name Catholicoi of the Armenian Apostolic Church * Saint Nerses I or St. Nerses I, Catholicos of Armenia, also known as Nerses the Great (d. 373) * Nerses II of Armenia, Catholicos of Armenia (d. 557) * Nerses III the Builder, Catholicos of Armenia, also known as Nerses the Builder (d. 661) * Nerses IV the Gracious, Catholicos of Cilicia, also known Nerses the Graceful (d. 1173) * Nerses V (1770–1857), Catholicos of Armenia Caucasian Albanian Catholicoi * Nerses Bakur or Nerses I (died 704) * Three more catholicoi and one anti-catholicos, see List of Caucasian Albanian Catholicoi Catholicoi-Patriarchs of the Armenian Catholic Church * Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni (1940–2015), patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church Other religious figures * Nerses Balients, also Nerses Balienc or Nerses Bagh'on, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hovsep Arghutian
Prince Hovsep Arghutian (; 1863 – 1925), also known as Khanasori Ishkhan and Ishkhan Arghutian, was an Armenian military commander and political activist. Biography Hovsep Arghutian was born in Sanahin, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire to an aristocratic family. His family drew its descent from the Armenian Argutinsky-Dolgorukov noble family. Arghutian graduated from the Nersisian Seminary in Tiflis and was a school teacher in the village of Jalaloghly (now Stepanavan, Armenia). In the late 1880s, he took up an active role in the Armenian affairs in the Ottoman Empire. In 1889, he made his way into the empire's eastern Anatolian provinces, where he worked with underground revolutionary groups, including the leader Arabo. He participated in the 1897 Khanasor Expedition. Afterward, he was arrested as a Russian citizen by Persian authorities and sent to Vologda, but was soon released. During the 1905-1907 Armenian-Tatar disturbances, he helped organized Armenian self-d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sargis Araratyan
Sargis Shahnazar Araratyan (; 1886–1943) was an Armenian politician who served as Minister of Finance of the First Republic of Armenia from 1919 to 1920 and Minister of Social Protection in 1920. Sargis Araratyan was a chemist by profession, as well as a public figure, a statesman and a prominent politician, a member of the ARF (Armenian Revolutionary Federation). He lived in Baku and took an active role in the Armenian National life. Hovannisian describes Sargis Araratian in The Republic of Armenia, Vol. II:... like other Dashnakist intellectuals, raratianserved as teacher, editor, and field-worker. Regarded as an incisive thinker, he was often consulted by highly placed comrades. At the time of the Persian revolution in 1906 he was teaching at Tabriz, where he was closely associated with the Persian Armenian revolutionary leader Eprem Khan. He later earned a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Geneva, while collaborating with Mikayel Varandian in the management ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Avetis Aharonian
Avetis Aharonian (; 4 January 1866 – 20 March 1948) was an Armenian politician, writer, public figure and revolutionary, also part of the Armenian national movement. Biography Aharonian was born in 1866 in Surmali, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire (today Iğdır, Turkey). Growing up, he was influenced by the natural features of his birthplace, such as the Aras River and Mount Ararat, both of which were located near Surmali. His mother, Zardar, was a literate person, who was able to educate her child by teaching him how to read and write. After completing elementary education at the village's school, he was sent to Echmiadzin's Gevorkian Seminary, and graduated from there. He became a teacher for a few years, after which he went to Switzerland's University of Lausanne to study history and philosophy. During this period of time, he met Kristapor Mikaelian, who was then the chief editor of the Troshag (Flag) newspaper and befriends Télémaque Tutundjian de Vartavan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nikol Aghbalian
Nikol Poghosi Aghbalian (; 1875, Tiflis – 1947, Beirut) was an Armenian public figure and historian of literature, the editor of ''Horizon'' paper. Aghbalian was born in 1873 in Tbilisi. His primary education was in Tbilisi's Nersisyan school, followed by a seminary education. He studied at Moscow State University, then in Lausanne and Sorbonne, worked as a teacher in Agulis, Shusha and Tiflis, and headed the Armenian National college in Iran. In 1914 he returned to Russian Armenia and participated in the National Bureau, working with the survivors of Armenian genocide. In 1918-1920 he was a member of Parliament, and in 1919-1920 was appointed Minister of Education and Culture of the First Republic of Armenia. Armenian-American historian Richard G. Hovannisian describes Nikol Aghbalian in the second volume of ''The Republic of Armenia'':… Nikol Aghbalian was a gregarious intellectual and pedagogue whose restless disposition led him in many directions, including literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Artashes Abeghyan
Artashes Gabrieli Abeghian ( 1 January 1878, Astabad, Nakhchivan – 13 March 1955, Munich) was an Armenian philologist, historian, educator, activist and politician of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. He was the nephew of Armenian scholar Manuk Abeghyan, who was behind the Armenian orthography reform in the 1920s. He graduated from Nersisian School. During the period of the First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920), he served as a member of parliament. From 1926 to 1945, he was professor of Armenian Studies at the University of Berlin and wrote prolifically in German on Armenology. During World War II, Abeghyan headed the ''Armenischen Nationalen Gremiums'' (Armenian National Council) in Berlin, a collaborationist body created by Nazi Germany. He also wrote for the ANG's newspaper titled ''Azat Hayastan'' ("Free Armenia"). His home was destroyed by the Allied bombing of Berlin, after which he fled to Stuttgart. He settled in Munich in 1951, where he taught Armenian Studies at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Assyrians In Armenia
Assyrians in Armenia (, ''Asoriner'') make up the country's third largest ethnic minority, after Yazidis and Russians. According to the 2011 census, there are 2,769 Assyrian people, Assyrians living in Armenia, and Armenia is home to some of the last surviving Assyrian communities in the Caucasus. There were 6,000 Assyrians in Armenia before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but because of Economy of Armenia, Armenia's struggling economy during the 1990s, the population has been cut by half, as many have emigrated. History Modern history Today's Assyrian population in Armenia are mostly descendants of settlers who came starting in the early nineteenth century during the Russo-Persian War (1826-1828), when thousands of refugees fled their homeland in the areas around Urmia in Persia. In the beginning of the 20th century, many came from what is today Southeastern Turkey, specifically the Hakkari (historical region), Hakkari region, where it was common to have Assyrians and Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kurds In Armenia
The Kurds in Armenia (; ), also referred to as the Kurds of Rewan (), form a major part of the historically significant Kurdish population in the Post-Soviet states, post-Soviet space, and live mainly in the western parts of Armenia. Kurds and Yazidis are counted as separate ethnic groups in Armenia (on the relationship between Yazidis and Kurdish identity, see ''Yazidis#Identity, Identity of Yazidis''). The latest census conducted in Armenia (2022) recorded 31,079 Yazidi and 1,663 Kurdish inhabitants of Armenia based on the self-identification of the respondents. Practically all of those who identified themselves as Kurds in the census are members of the Yazidi community who embrace a Kurdish identity; extremely few Muslim Kurds live in Armenia today. Since 2015, four seats in National Assembly (Armenia), Armenia's parliament are guaranteed for representatives of the country's ethnic minorities, of which one seat is reserved for a representative of the Yazidi community and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Azerbaijanis In Armenia
Azerbaijanis in Armenia () numbered 29 people according to the 2001 census of Armenia. Although they have previously been the biggest minority in the country according to 1831–1989 censuses, they are virtually non-existent since 1988–1991 when most fled or were forced out of the country as a result of the tensions of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War to neighboring Azerbaijan. The UNHCR estimates that the current population of Azerbaijanis in Armenia to be somewhere between 30 and a few hundred people,Second Report Submitted by Armenia Pursuant to Article 25, Paragraph 1 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities . Received on 24 November 2004 with most of them liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
