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HISTORY

1. Avakian Knarik, THE PROSPECTS OF THE GENERATION CHANGES IN THE DIASPORA IN THE CONTEXT OF STRATEGIC INTERESTS OF ARMENIA. “PRESERVING ARMENIANNESS”

WITHOUT “LAND-PRESERVATION” IS MEANINGLESS ...... 7 2. Khachatryan Susanna, THE FORMATION OF THE ARMENIAN AMIRA CLASS OF KONSTANTINOPLE ...... 24 3. Kosyan Aram, ABOUT THE HISTORICAL SOURCES OF MOVSES KHORENATSI’S HISTORY ...... 30 4. Nazaryan Gevorg, BRITISH POLICY TOWARDS THE ARMENIAN QUESTION FROM THE ARMISTICE OF MUDROS TO THE OPENING OF THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE ...... 34 5. Qosyan Lilit, THE EFFORTS OF THE ARMENIAN BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF THE CAUCASUS IN HELPING THE ARMENIAN REFUGEES (1896) ...... 51 6. Sahakyan Ruben, VAN-VASPURAKAN DURING WORLD WAR I (Summer of 1915-1917) ...... 56 7. Svazlian Verjine, THE REPATRIATION TO ARMENIA AND THE PEOPLE’S HISTORICAL MEMORY (According to the personal ethnographic observations) ...... 75

POLITICAL SCIENCES AND INFORMATIONAL SECURITY

8. Bayburdyan Vahan, ON THE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE KURDISH QUESTION IN THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST IN MODERN TIMES ...... 85 9. Shirinyan Levon, THE ARMENIAN CIVILIZATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE LENS OF HUNTINGTON’S HYPOTHESIS (An Examination Outline of the Concept) ...... 96

PHILOLOGY

10. Doloukhanyan Aelita, CONTRADICTIONS AND ERRORS IN THE PREFACE AND NOTES OF NIZAMI’S WORKS COLLECTION IN FIVE VOLUMES ...... 110

DOCUMENTS: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

11. LETTERS FROM THE SCENES OF THE RECENT MASSACRES IN ARMENIA (J. RENDEL HARRIS AND HELLEN B. HARRIS, LONDON 1897) ...... 115 12. THE MURDEROUS TYRANNY OF THE TURKS (BY ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE WITH A PREFACE BY VISCOUNT BRYCE, 1917) ...... 128 13. Safrastyan Ruben, THE WAR OF TURKEY AGAINST ARMENIA: ANALYZING THE TURKISH DOCUMENTS (NOVEMBER 1920) ...... 131

FOREIGN SOURCES AND AUTHORS ABOUT ARMENIA AND ARMENIANS

14. Brant James, XIV.- JOURNEY THROUGH A PART OF ARMENIA AND ASIA MINOR, IN THE YEAR 1835. COMMUNICATED BY JAMES BRANT, ESQ. HIS MAJESTY’S CONSUL AT ERZ-RÚM. JULY,

1836 ...... 153

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BOOK REVIEWS

15. Hatikyan Hakob, WESTERN ARMENIANS ON THE TARGET OF THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (1878-1923), YEREVAN, NATIONAL SECURITY SERVICE OF RA, YEREVAN,

2016, 275 P. (IN ARM.) ...... 187 16. Hmayakyan Hasmik, GRIGOR KAPANTSYAN AND THE HITTITE STUDIES, YEREVAN, “GITUTYUN” PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2016, 196 P. (IN ARM.) ...... 191 17. Kharatyan Albert, Gevorgyan Lida, «THE HISTORY OF ARMENIAN PERIODICAL PRESS» (I VOLUME, XVIII- XIX CENTURIES, 2006, P. 701), (II VOLUME, 1900-1922, 2017, 787 P.),

YEREVAN, (IN ARM.) ...... 195 18. Petrosyan Armen, THE PROBLEM OF ARMENIAN ORIGINS. MYTH, HISTORY, HYPOTHESES, INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY, NAS RA, YEREVAN: “ANTARES

PUBLISHING HOUSE”, 2017, 248 P. (IN ARM.) ...... 195 19. Sonia Schreiber Weitz, “I PROMISED I WOULD TELL” (TRANSL. FROM ENGLISH INTO ARMENIAN BY AELITA DOLUKHANYAN), YEREVAN, 2017: ZANGAK PUBLISHING HOUSE, 156

P. (IN ARM.) ...... 198

NEW BOOKS

20. Harutyunyan Martiros, ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN RELATIONS IN 1918-1919 (LETTERS, REPORTS), YEREVAN, 2017: INSTITUTE OF HISTORY OF NAS RA, 153 P. (HAMO SUKIASYAN) (IN ARM.) ...... 202 21. Astoyan Anahit, ECONOMIC SITUATION AND MATERIAL LOSSES OF THE ARMENIANS OF BURSA DURING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, GITUTYUN PUBLISHING HOUSE, NAS RA, 2017,

320 P., 40 PHOTOS. (IN ARM.) ...... 202 22. Bablumyan Arpine, ARMENIAN POPULATION OF THE KHARBERD VILAYET OF WESTERN ARMENIA IN THE LATE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES (HISTORICAL-DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY),

YEREVAN, 2017: INSTITUTE OF HISTORY, NAS RA, 283 P. (IN ARM.) ...... 203 23. Bakhchinyan Artsvi, ARMENIAN-JAPANESE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL RELATIONS, YEREVAN, 2017: INSTITUTE OF HISTORY OF NAS RA, 286 P. (IN ARM.) ...... 203 24. Bakhchinyan Artsvi, ARMENIANS IN CHINA. ARMENIAN-CHINESE HISTORICAL-CULTURAL RELATIONS, YEREVAN, 2017: INSTITUTE OF HISTORY OF NAS RA, 358 P. (IN ARM.) ...... 203 25. Hakobyan Ararat, ESTABLISHMENT OF ONE-PARTY REGIME IN SOVIET ARMENIA (1920'S), YEREVAN, 2016: INSTITUTE OF HISTORY, NAS RA, 366 P. (IN ARM.) ...... 204 26. Harutyunyan Arsen, KHOR VIRAP. HISTORY, MANUSCRIPT AND EPIGRAPHIC HERITAGE, YEREVAN, INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF NAS RA AND “MATENADARAN” MASHTOTS INSTITUTE OF ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS: “TIGRAN METS

PUBLISHING HOUSE”, 2017, 192 P. + 72 PHOTOS. (IN ARM.) ...... 204 27. Kirakosyan Hasmik, CATALOGUE OF THE PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENTS OF MATENADARAN (EDITOR GOHAR MURADYAN), NAIRI PUBLISHING HOUSE, YEREVAN, 2017,

86 P...... 204

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28. Melkonyan Eduard, ARMENIAN EMIGRATION. A HISTORY OF THE TERMS, YEREVAN, 2017: “COLLAGE PUBLISHING HOUSE”, 188 P. (IN ARM.) ...... 205 29. Mkrtumyan Gayane, EDICT-AGREEMENTS AS SOURCES OF ARAB-ARMENIAN RELATIONS (VII- XII th CENTURIES) ...... 205 30. ORIENTAL STUDIES IN ARMENIA. VOL. I-III, YEREVAN, 2015-2017 (IN ARM.) ...... 206 31. Ter-Ghevondian Vahan, CILICIAN ARMENIA AND THE AYYUBID STATES (1171-1260), YEREVAN, “TIR PUBLISHING HOUSE”, 266 P. (IN ARM.) ...... 207

PERSONALIA

32. Suvaryan Yuri, Sargsyan Gagik, Bobokhyan Arsen, PAVEL AVETISYAN: ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY ...... 209

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