1. Interview - Maria
(Music and Videos/Interviews)

... love with it. It was a hit. And so I began writing. Chilla and I would always vibe to his beats, which he would always underestimate, denying their true brilliance. He would play the phattest melody, I ...

2. The Armenian Genocide
(Armenians/History)

... violent conflict. Things began to change for a number of reasons. Nationalism, a new force in the world, reared its head and made ethnic groupings self-conscious, and the Ottoman Empire began to crumble. ...

3. Nagorno-Karabakh and Independence
(Armenians/History)

... Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh against Azerbaijani rule began in the spirit of perestroika, but the movement evolved quickly into a political organization, the Karabakh Committee, a broad anticommunist ...

4. The Communist Era
(Armenians/History)

... escalating attacks and reprisals between the two sides began in early 1988. Taking advantage of the greater freedom introduced by the glasnost (see Glossary) and perestroika (see Glossary) policies of ...

5. Between Russia and Turkey
(Armenians/History)

... annexed the area around Erevan, bringing thousands of Armenians into the Russian Empire. In the next half-century, three related processes began to intensify the political and national consciousness of ...

6. The Middle Ages
(Armenians/History)

... the Central Asian Mamluk Turks in 1375. Cilician Armenia left notable monuments of art, literature, theology, and jurisprudence. It also served as the door through which Armenians began emigrating to points ...

7. Early Christianity
(Armenians/History)

... and historical works began to appear as part of the effort to consolidate the influence of Christianity. For the next two centuries, political unrest paralleled the exceptional development of literary ...