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Galichian, Rouben, 2025
Բանբեր հայագիտության / Banber Hayagitutyan (International Review of Armenian Studies), 2025, No. 2(38), pp. 5–11; DOI 10.54503/1829-4073-2025.2.5-11
Galichian addresses the claim, promoted by state-aligned historians in the Republic of Azerbaijan, that shared language proves the population of the republic and that of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan are one people with one origin. He argues that language cannot serve as the sole basis for reconstructing the descent of a society, offering the counter-examples of Spanish-speaking Latin America and of African states speaking the languages of former colonizers. The article reviews the comparatively recent Turkic-language layer in the region, arriving with the Seljuks, and sets it against the earlier Iranian and Caucasian Albanian linguistic history of the territory.
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Khachatryan, Armine, 2025
Պատմություն և մշակույթ / History and Culture, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 132–150 (Yerevan State University); DOI 10.46991/hc.2025.22.1.132
Khachatryan reconstructs the two years between the July 1921 decision placing Artsakh under Soviet Azerbaijan and the July 1923 decision granting autonomy. Her premise is that the historical-political literature has never adequately studied the situation produced by the 1921 decision, and that treatments of it are frequently one-sided. She argues that the actual consequences of these decisions require fresh clarification, and that the reaction of the population directly affected, the Armenians of Artsakh, has been given almost no attention. Armenian and Azerbaijani historiographies hold sharply opposed positions and leave real gaps; her aim is to establish the sequence of events and ask how far the settlement reflected the free will of the national majority.
BookOpen Access
Kühne, Thomas (ed.) · Rein, Mary Jane (ed.) · Mamigonian, Marc A. (ed.), 2024
Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide (open access book)
Fully open-access volume honoring Taner Akçam, the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide, with fourteen chapters by leading scholars: gendered violence, humanitarianism and refugees, survivor diaries, property spoliation, resistance, and a historiographic survey of the field since the centennial. The entire book PDF is free to download.
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Ohanian, Daniel, 2024
Journal of Early Modern History, Vol. 28, No. 1-2, pp. 184–186 (Brill); DOI 10.1163/15700658-12342746
A review essay in Brill's Journal of Early Modern History assessing Henry R. Shapiro's monograph on the formation of the Western Armenian diaspora in the early modern Ottoman Empire, a subject that sits squarely in Ohanian's own dissertation field of Armenian refugee movement, community formation and cultural renaissance in the seventeenth-century Ottoman world.
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Kazaryan, Armen Yu., 2023
Arts, Vol. 12, No. 6, art. 238 (MDPI); DOI 10.3390/arts12060238
Compares two major architectural-archaeological missions to the built heritage of the Armenian Highlands: the Russian Ani Archaeological Expedition (1892–1917) and the Italian programmes of the Universities of Rome and Venice and Milan Polytechnic (1966 to the 1980s). Kazaryan evaluates what each contributed and argues the differences in their results stem from the chronological gap and from divergent orientations. The Russian work was primarily archaeological, the Italian primarily architectural. Nikolay Marr aimed to exhibit original artifacts in the museum he founded at Ani, while the Italian professors relied on photography for exhibitions. The article also draws on the Ani fieldwork of the architect Toros Toramanian.
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Ohanian, Daniel, 2017
Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 365–380 (Indiana University Press); DOI 10.2979/jottturstuass.4.2.07
Ohanian argues that critical and uncritical scholars alike tend to treat Ottoman Armenians as a cohesive group, and sets out to disrupt that habit. He first critiques the millet-system paradigm, then turns to historiographic debates over late Ottoman demographic data, a topic that has generated considerable tension between Ottoman studies and Armenian studies. Using the c. 1907 imperial census as a case study, he documents cooperation between the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Istanbul and the Ottoman Ministry of the Interior. The example demonstrates the interdependence of the two bodies and shows that while some Armenians were victims or opponents of the late Ottoman state, others were deeply entrenched within it.
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Cowe, S. Peter, 1995
Revue des Études Arméniennes, Vol. 25 (1994-1995), pp. 125–155 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/REA.25.0.2003778
A contribution to the debate over applying Western or Eurocentric categories to Near Eastern history, re-examining whether the concept of 'renaissance' can properly be applied to Armenia in the eleventh to fourteenth centuries, with particular focus on the role assigned to Yovhannes Sarkawag's celebrated poem in that development. Cowe engages Edward Said's critique of orientalist presuppositions, noting that Said's paradigm, built around the representation of Arabs and Islam, is not fully transferable to Christian cultures of the region. He observes that the Christian faith of Armenians and Greeks made their relationship to Westerners more ambiguous: employed as commercial and diplomatic intermediaries, yet sometimes held in greater opprobrium than Muslims because they were deemed heretics and schismatics.
