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2023
Памятники армянской архитектуры и топонимики стран Пиренейского полуострова: Испания, Португалия, Андорра // The Monuments of Armenian Architectures and Toponymy in the Countries of the Iberian Peninsula: Spain, Portugal, Andorra
Gagik H. Poghosyan-Khaghbakyan
This Iberian Peninsula installment combines a history of Armenian settlement with a country-by-country table of architecture and toponymy in Spain, Portugal, and Andorra, alongside church, education, and media context.
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2023
Прошлое в настоящем – связь поколений (стилистика Комитаса и ее осмысление в творчестве Авета Тертеряна)
Татьяна Брославская
Сопоставляя Комитаса и Авета Тертеряна, автор прослеживает переход от обработок народных песен и танцев к симфонии и музыкальному театру, связывая обоих композиторов через монодию, тембр и историческую память.
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2023
ՄԱՐԻԱՄ ԿԱՐՍԵՑՈՒ ՉՀՐԱՊԱՐԱԿՎԱԾ ԿՆԻՔԸ ԵՎ ԲԱԳՐԱՏՈՒՆԻՆԵՐԻ ՏԱՆ՝ ԴԱՎԻԹՅԱՆ ԾԱԳՄԱՆ ՀԱՎԱԿՆՈՒԹՅՈՒՆԸ (ԱՆԳԼ.) / AN UNPUBLISHED SEAL OF MARIA OF KARS AND THE DAVIDIC DESCENT CLAIM OF THE HOUSE OF BAGRATUNI
Maxime Yévadian and Hovann H. Simonian
A newly presented seal of Maria, daughter of Gagik of Kars, carries an early assertion that the Bagratuni line descended from David.
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2022
“I go. I return. I am confused”: Reflections on Armenian Music Ideas in Multi-sited Research
Ortensia Giovannini
Multi-sited fieldwork among Armenian musicians in Milan, Paris, and Yerevan leads the researcher to revise initial assumptions and describe divergent musical identities shaped by memory, mobility, and globalization.
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2022
13. Yüzyılda Anadolu ve Kafkasya: Mkhargrdzeli Sülalesine Bağlı Mimaride Papa I. Sylvester Figürü
Nergis ATAÇ
The study interprets depictions of Pope Sylvester I in the Mkhargrdzeli-linked churches at Ani’s Tigran Honents complex and Akhtala, proposing new dates and relating the unusual images to thirteenth-century political and religious alignments.
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2022
A fragment of an unknown Armenian homiletic collection from the Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts
Dali Chitunashvili and Dali Chitunashvili
Two parchment flyleaves removed during restoration of a fifteenth-century Armenian Gospel in Georgia are identified as pieces of a larger, multi-column homiletic manuscript through their script, dimensions, margins, and line layout.
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2022
Alexander Spendiaryan in the Music of the World (Ethnomusicological Observation)
Noune Poghosyan-Zeltsburg
An ethnomusicological reading places Alexander Spendiaryan between Russian and European art music, Armenian classical development, diaspora ideology, folklorism, orientalism, and nationalism, arguing that his individual style helped found a national school of composition.
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2022
Eduard Hayrapetyan. Concerto for Piano and Symphonic Orchestra
Emma Torikyan
The paper analyzes Eduard Hayrapetyan's piano concerto through its musical material, impressionist and neo-romantic traits, and cooperative rather than competitive soloist-orchestra relationship.
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2022
Every contact leaves a trace: Documenting contamination in lithic residue studies at the Middle Palaeolithic sites of Lusakert Cave 1 (Armenia) and Crvena Stijena (Montenegro)
Ellery Frahm et al.
Comparative laboratory work on stone artifacts from Lusakert Cave in Armenia and a Montenegrin site demonstrates how modern handling and ancient deposits can complicate residue identification.
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2022
Features of the exposition of culture and life of Armenians in some Russian museums and its influence on the activation of national identity
L. P. Gevorgyan
Four Russian museums are assessed for Armenian ethnographic collections and exhibitions, with attention to how objects from ancestral regions help diaspora visitors negotiate culture, memory, and national identity.
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Holy All Savior Ghazanchetsots Church in Shushi and "Protection" of Cultural Heritage in Azerbaijan
Lyuba Kirakosyan
Drawing on archives and field investigation, the author documents Ghazanchetsots Church's foundation, plan, spatial design, and decoration, then analyzes ownership reassignment and vandalism attributed to Azerbaijani authorities.
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2022
Influence of Arsenic Compounds on the Colour Palette of 15th- and 16th-Century Icons from the National Museum in Cracow
Dominika Anna Tarsińska-Petruk
At the Cracow museum, analysis of aurypigment and realgar degradation across nine icons links the Pantokrator, Deesis, and Last Judgment works to Armenian and south-Balkan painting traditions.
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2022
Kültürel Perspektiften Diyarbakır Ermeni Müziği
Mehmet Emin Şen and Bilal Kaplan
Interviews and field research describe Diyarbakır Ermeni müziği as a product of long cultural exchange, identifying repertory themes such as aşk, ağıt, maya, hoyrat, uzun hava, and halk oyunları alongside linguistic difference.
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2022
LE THÈME DU GÉNOCIDE DANS LES ŒUVRES DES COMPOSITEURS ARMÉNIENS CONTEMPORAINS TIGRANE MANSOURYAN, HAROUTIUN DELLALYAN, YERVAND YERKANYAN ET VATCHÉ CHARAFYAN, HÉRITIERS DE RÉFUGIÉS PARTIS DE TURQUIE
Anna Arevchatyan
The French-language survey examines chamber, symphonic, and staged works through which Dellalian, Mansuryan, Yerkanyan, and Sharafyan interpreted inherited memory of the Armenian Genocide.
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2022
Orta Aras Havzası Şehirlerinden Duvin’in Orta Çağ Ticaretindeki Yerine Bir Bakış (V-XIII. Yüzyıllar)
Erhan Ateş
Makale, Duvin'in İpek Yolu üzerindeki stratejik konumunu; tekstil, çanak çömlek, cam, şarapçılık ve metal işleme üretimini; pazarlarını, darphanesini ve kuzey-güney ticaret güzergâhlarını birlikte değerlendirir.
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Pictorial Modernity and the Armenian Women of Iran
Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor
Photo studios from the 1880s–1930s, satirical cartoons from 1920–1958, and costume exhibitions in 1972–1976 reveal how Armenian women and their organizations negotiated visibility within Qajar and Pahlavi modernization.
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2022
Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia
Anneke T.M. ter Schure et al.
Sedimentary ancient DNA and pollen from Aghitu-3 reconstruct plant assemblages across a 15,000-year Upper Paleolithic sequence, associating higher diversity with occupation layers and identifying taxa useful for food, medicine, textiles, and dyeing.
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2022
Seismic Performance Evaluation of Historical Case Study of Armenian Architecture Tekor Church
Burçin Şenol Şeker and Merve ÖZKAYNAK
A macro-model of Tekor Church under dynamic earthquake loads locates elevated stress at column supports, upper columns, and connecting arches, while maximum deformation appears at the triangular gable peaks and accords with earlier damage.
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2022
Texts About Music: Reflections on the Relations Between the Different Communities Living in 19th Century Istanbul
Harun Korkmaz
Written sources from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Istanbul show Armenian, Rum, Jewish, Gypsy, Turkish, and western musicians sharing public space; Hamparsum notation and multilingual scripts made this cultural transfer materially visible.
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2022
The “Karabakh – Armenia” Theme in the Iconography of Armenian Identity
Harutyun Marutyan and Levon Abrahamian
This visual-culture study analyzes banners and posters from the Karabakh Movement, identifying symbols, slogans, inherited Soviet forms, nationalist themes, and images of unity between Armenia and Artsakh.
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2022
The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave: Translation and Commentary of Kafas added to Manuscript M7709 (Part 2)
Alex MacFarlane
Sixteen Armenian poems added to seventeenth-century manuscript M7709 are translated and interpreted alongside the City of Brass, Alexander's death, Darius's emissaries, and wider Alexander Romance traditions.
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2022
The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
H. A. Shapiro
Using Armenian manuscripts and Ottoman archives, this book explains how seventeenth-century migration reshaped Istanbul and western Anatolia and enabled new Armenian commercial and cultural networks.
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Tourism objects and development of Armenian ethnographic excursion route in polyethnic Chernivtsi
Yaroslav Dzhaman and Vasyl Dzhaman
Using censuses from 1774 through 2001, the authors reconstruct Armenian settlement and institutions in Chernivtsi, score twenty-six heritage objects, map their spatial clusters, and propose an ethnographic excursion route centered on the Armenian Church.
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2022
Where tradition meets science: microbial diversity and bioactive compounds in Armenian fermented milk products
Kassandra Gooch and Danik Martirosyan
This review distinguishes matsun, choratan, and the Narine strain, connecting Armenian food history with microbial diversity, bioactive peptides, preclinical findings, small clinical trials, and the need for larger human studies.
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