The total number of Armenians throughout the world exceeds 7 million with some 3 million living in Armenia, some one million living in former Soviet Union republics and some 1 million living in U.S. Armenians now live in a flourishing Diaspora from L.A to Beirut and Brasilia to Sydney. The main reason of this scattered population of Armenians is the series of attacks and campaigns they experienced during centuries that forced them to leave their homeland. The most disastrous of those campaigns was the Turkish annihilation program against the Armenia ns that resulted in 1.5 million deaths.
During centuries, Armenians were part of different Empires. Historic Armenia was located in such a strategic and geopolitically important region where every Emperor had a great desire to have it under its control. Iranians, Russians, Arabs, Ottomans took turn in attacking and conquering Armenia. In seventh century AD, Islam swept the region. Armenians resisted the new religion, meanwhile, they lost many people due to constant attacks of Arabs forcing them to convert. By the eight century, due to the spread of Islam in the region, Armenia remained a sma
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ir own country who declared its independency in 1991 from former Soviet Union. The total number of Armenians throughout the world exceeds 7 million with some 3 million living in Armenia, some one million living in former Soviet Union republics and some 1 million living in U.S. Armenians now live in a flourishing Diaspora from L.A to Beirut and Brasilia to Sydney. The main reason of this scattered population of Armenians is the series of attacks and campaigns they experienced during centuries that forced them to leave their homeland. The most disastrous of those campaigns was the Turkish annihilation program against the Armenia ns that resulted in 1.5 million deaths.
The Millet system lasted for 500 years. Although the Armenians and Turks did not lived in quite harmony with eachother, the Turks refereed to Armenians as the loyal citizens of the Empire. Armenians were successful n business, they had their own political parities, and even some members of Ottoman parliament. But towards the end of 19 century, the Ottoman Empire began to decline and the prosperous Armenians began to lose their status. The last Emperor, Sultan Abdull Hamid killed almost 300,000 thousands Armenians during the last decade of 19 century. The reason was that Armenians were fed up by the high taxation system and like many other Europian nations who were demanding their independency from the Ottomans, Armenians also were demanding some autonomy.
By the early 1900's a new regime took control of the Ottoman Empire. A revolutionary party of modernized militants called Young Turks. The party was governed by three men Jamal, Enver and Talyat pasha. This new extreme nationalist party started to govern the Empire from 1908. They had a unifiying and progressive vision toward expansion of the country eastward. They envisioned a Pan-Turkey state expanding from Istanbul to central Asia including all Turkish tribes of region. This move of course was against Armenians both in the Ottoman Empire and in the Russian Empire. Armenians were on the way.
As the WWI started, the Young Turkish government started a war with Russia. The front line was exactly in Armenia . The eastern Armenia at that time was under Russian control where Western Armenia wa
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