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Ashot G. Abrahamian
Ashot Garegini Abrahamian ( hy, Աշոտ Գարեգինի Աբրահամյան; January 31, 1903 – April 30, 1983) was a Soviet Armenian historian. Abrahamian was born in the village of Kechut. After studying at an Armenian school in Nakhchivan and Gevorgian Seminary Gevorkian Theological Seminary ( hy, Գևորգյան Հոգևոր Ճեմարան ''Gevorkyan Hogevor Č̣emaran''), also known as Gevorkian Seminary ( hy, Գևրգյան Ճեմարան ''Gevorkyan Č̣emaran'', ), is a theological university-ins ... in Etchmiadzin, he worked as a priest in Khachik between 1920 and 1926. He studied history at Yerevan State University, graduating in 1933. Since 1938 until his death, he taught at the university in various positions. His research areas included the works of medieval Armenian scholars such as Anania Shirakatsi, Hovhannes Imastaser. In 1944 he published the first complete collection of Shirakatsi's works after years of research at the Matenadaran. He died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharur-Daralayaz Uezd
The Sharur-Daralayaz uezd was a county ('' uezd'') of the Erivan Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the governorate's Erivan and Nor Bayazet ''uezds'' to the north, the Nakhichevan uezd to the south, the Zangezur and Jevanshir ''uezds'' of the Elizavetpol Governorate to the east, and Persia to the southwest. It included most of the Vayots Dzor Province of present-day Armenia and the Sharur District of the Nakhchivan exclave of present-day Azerbaijan. The administrative center of the ''uezd'' was the town Bashnorashen (present-day Sharur). Economy Armenians were mostly concentrated in mountainous Daralayaz, while lowland Sharur was overwhelmingly Tatar. The population in Daralayaz was engaged primarily in cattlebreeding while the residents of Sharur were engaged in agricultural farming and gardening. Manufacturing was not developed in this part of the governorate. Only 47 winemaking enterprises, 299 mills, 89 cotton-cleaning, 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakhchivan (city)
Nakhchivan ( az, Naxçıvan ; arm, Նախիջևան, Nakhijevan) is the capital of the eponymous Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan, located west of Baku. The municipality of Nakhchivan consists of the city of Nakhchivan, the settlement of Əliabad and the villages of Başbaşı, Bulqan, Haciniyyət, Qaraçuq, Qaraxanbəyli, Tumbul, Qarağalıq, and Daşduz. It is spread over the foothills of Zangezur Mountains, on the right bank of the Nakhchivan River at an altitude of above sea level. Toponymy The city's official Azerbaijani spelling is Nakhchivan ( az, Naxçıvan). The name is transliterated from Persian as Nakhjavan ( fa, نخجوان). The city's name is transliterated from Russian as Nakhichevan' (russian: Нахичевань) and from Armenian as Nakhijevan ( arm, Նախիջևան, Naxiǰewan). The city was first mentioned in Ptolemy's ''Geography'' as ''Naxuana'' ( grc, Ναξουὰνα, la, Naxuana). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Deaths
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazism, Nazi war crime, war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for 1983 Australian federal election, elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 Births
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History Of Science Society
The History of Science Society (HSS) is the primary professional society for the academic study of the history of science. It was founded in 1924 by George Sarton, David Eugene Smith, and Lawrence Joseph Henderson, primarily to support the publication of ''Isis'', a journal of the history of science Sarton had started in 1912. The society has over 3,000 members worldwide. It continues to publish the quarterly journal ''Isis,'' the yearly ''Osiris'', sponsors the IsisCB: History of Science Index, and holds an annual conference. , the current president of the HSS is Jan Golinski. Awards and recognition HSS sponsors two special lectures annually: * The ''George Sarton Memorial Lecture'', delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1960 (with a break from 1973 to 1975) * The ''History of Science Society Distinguished Lecture'' (formerly the ''History of Science Society Lecture''), delivered at a plenary session of the annual meeti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isis (journal)
''Isis'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press. It covers the history of science, history of medicine, and the history of technology, as well as their cultural influences. It contains original research articles and extensive book reviews and review essays. Furthermore, sections devoted to one particular topic are published in each issue in open access. These sections consist of the Focus section, the Viewpoint section and the Second Look section. History The journal was established by George Sarton and the first issue appeared in March 1913. Contributions were originally in any of four European languages (English, French, German, and Italian), but since the 1920s, only English has been used. Publication is partly supported by an endowment from the Dibner Fund. Two associated publications are ''Osiris'' (established 1936 by Sarton) and the ''Isis Current Bibliography''. The publication of the journal was interrupted in 1914 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matenadaran
The Matenadaran ( hy, Մատենադարան), officially the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, is a museum, repository of manuscripts, and a research institute in Yerevan, Armenia. It is the world's largest repository of Armenian manuscripts. It was established in 1959 on the basis of the nationalized collection of the Armenian Church, formerly held at Etchmiadzin. Its collection has gradually expanded since its establishment, mostly from individual donations. One of the most prominent landmarks of Yerevan, it is named after Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet, whose statue stands in front of the building. Name The word մատենադարան, ''matenadaran'' is a compound composed of մատեան, ''matean'' ("book" or "parchment") and դարան, ''daran'' ("repository"). According to Hrachia Acharian both words are of Middle Persian (Pahlavi) origin. Though it is sometimes translated as "scriptorium" in English, a more accurate translation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovhannes Imastaser
Hovhannes Imastaser ( hy, Յովհաննէս Իմաստասէր, c. 1047–1129), also known as Hovhannes Sarkavag ( hy, Յովհաննէս Սարկաւագ), was a medieval Armenian multi-disciplinary scholar known for his works on philosophy, theology, mathematics, cosmology, and literature. Imastaser was also a gifted hymnologist and pedagogue. Biography Hovhannes Imastaser was born around 1047 in the district of Gardman (village of Pib) of historical Armenia’s eastern province of Utik, which today is located in Azerbaijan, north of Nagorno Karabakh. The most extensive historical account of Hovhannes Imastaser’s life and work is in the 12-13th century Armenian historian Kirakos Gandzaketsi’s “History of Armenia.” There also exists a 13th-century anonymous biography of Hovhannes Imastaser, which is attributed sometimes to Kirakos Gandzaketsi. Hovhannes received his education in theology and science in Haghbat and Sanahin, two important monastic centers of Armen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anania Shirakatsi
Anania Shirakatsi ( hy, Անանիա Շիրակացի, ''Anania Širakac’i'', anglicized: Ananias of Shirak) was a 7th-century Armenians, Armenian polymath and Natural philosophy, natural philosopher, author of extant works covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronology, and other fields. Little is known for certain of his life outside of his own writings, but he is considered the father of the exact sciences, exact and natural sciences in Armenia—the first Armenian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer. Seen as a part of the Armenian Hellenizing School, the last lay scholar in Christian Armenia until the 11th century, Anania was educated primarily by Tychicus, in Trabzon, Trebizond. He composed science textbooks and the first known geographic work in classical Armenian (''Ashkharhatsuyts''), which provides detailed information about Greater Armenia, Persia and the Caucasus (Georgia (country), Georgia and Caucasian Albania). In mathematics, his accomplishments i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khachik, Armenia
Khachik ( hy, Խաչիկ) is a village in the Areni Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province in Armenia, located on the Armenia–Azerbaijan border. The village is the home to the fourth Infantry Infantry is a military specialization which engages in ground combat on foot. Infantry generally consists of light infantry, mountain infantry, motorized infantry & mechanized infantry, airborne infantry, air assault infantry, and m ... unit of Vayk Brigade. Gallery Gata festival, Khachik, 2016 1 (10).jpg, Gata Festival in Khachik Landscape of Khachik village - Խաչիկ գյուղի համայնապատկեր (2012).jpg, A view of the village Gata festival, Khachik, 2016 1 (12).jpg, Gata Festival in Khachik Խոտակերաց վանք 17.jpg, Karakop Monastery Սուրբ Աստվածածին, Խաչիկ 02.jpg, Holy Mother of God Church in Khachik Вид на село Хачик.JPG, Scenery around Khachik Հուշարձան Երկրորդ աշխարհամարտում � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kechut
Kechut ( hy, Կեչուտ), formerly ''Kushchi'' and ''Kush-Bilyak'', is an abandoned village in the Jermuk Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia. See also * Jermuk Jermuk ( hy, Ջերմուկ) is a mountain spa town and the center of the Jermuk Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province in southern Armenia, at a road distance of east of the provincial capital Yeghegnadzor. It was considered one of the popula ... References *World Gazeteer: Armenia– World-Gazetteer.com * Populated places in Vayots Dzor Province {{VayotsDzor-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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