Հ.Մ.Ը.Մ.

Գանատայի Շրջան: Դաստիարակչական Սեմինար

3-4 Հոկտեմբեր 2009 Քինկսթըն, Օնթարիօ
Homenetmen Canada: Educational Seminar 3-4 October, 2009 Kingston

How to be a good Homenetmenagan and transmit our values to our scouts and athletes
Ինչպէ՞ս ըլլալ տիպար Հայ Հ .Մ.Ը.Մ. -ական եւ փոխանցել մեր արժէքները Սկաուտներուն եւ
մարզիկներուն
Krikor Tersakian (e-mail: gregters@gmail.com)
 Հայոց Պատմութեան գլխաւոր Թուականներէն /Milestone dates in Armenian
history
-The names Armenia and Hayastan are derived from Aram (a Grandson of Haïk) and Hayasa tribes
-During the Bronze Age (1500 BC) the Hayasa tribe was flourishing and already in conflict with the
Hittites
-Iron Age (10 th Century BC to 5th Century BC: Urartu Kingdom around Mount Ararat
-The Urartu capital Van falls to the invading Assyrians 585 BC
-The Persian Empire starts to rule what was then Greater Armenia with some autonomy granted to
the ruling Armenian dynasties.
-190 BC the Hellenistic Empire (Founded by Alexander the Great ) rule Armenia and Artaxes
becomes the ruling Dynasty
-Rome and Eastern Rome (Byzanthium) rule Armenia and gradually get into a bitter and long lasting
conflict with the Persian Parthians.
-The Romans are victorious over the Parthians and it is the founding of the Armenian Arshakuni
Dynasty (63 AD)
-Apostles Thaddaeus and Bartholomew preach Christianity in Armenia as the religion spreads.
-In 252 AD: Persian Sassanids occupy Armenia again and the county is split between Romans and
Persians yet another time.
-In 301 AD: Armenia adopts Christianity as a state religion, the first in the world to do so.The driving
force behind this was St Gregory the Illuminator, the founder of the Armenian Apostolic Church
-405/406 AD: Mesrop Mashdots invents the unique Armenian alphabet and culture blooms.
-451 AD: the Armenians under Vartan Mamikonyan fight the Sassanids at Avarayr to remain
Christian.
-484 AD: the treaty of Nvarsak guarantees religious freedom for the Armenians.
-645 and on the Arab armies attack Armenia as the Byzantine empire starts to feel the pressure and retreat.
-1071 Seljuk Turks attack and defeat the Byzantine forces at Manazkert
-With waves of christian crusaders attacks to reclaim Jerusalem and the Holy Lands, the Armenians found a
Kingdom in Cilicia 1199-1375. (Roupinian Dynasty)
-The Ottoman Turks finish off the Byzantium empire and take Costantinople (Istanbul) in 1453.
-The Persian under Shah Abbas attacks Armenia to regain the area from the Turks. Scores of Armenians are
deported from around Ararat.
-The Russian arrive and take most Armenians areas which were under Persians control (1826-1828) while
the Ottoman Turks still rule the western areas.
-The Armenian National Liberation movement starts in the 19th century. Armenians stand up for their basic
human rights and freedom. Political parties are formed and Arts flourish. Meanwhile the Ottoman
Empire is losing power by the day and becoming very agitated and aggressive.
-Sultan Abdul Hamid stops the earlier reforms and engages in massive massacres (1895-96)
-Armenian Genocide 1915, both people and country are decimated by the first planned genocide of the 20th
century. Western Aremenia is emptied and one and a half million die.
-The Russian revolution and the communist Bolshevik takeover 1917. The russian armies leave.
-May 28, 1918 Eastern Armenia declares its Independance after the battles of Sartarabad, Bash Abaran and
Gharakiliseh. A small Armenia barely survives as Bolsheviks come back.
-Bolshevik Russia and the Turks sign the treaty of Kars surrendering Armenian territories to Turkey
-1921-22 Armenia is forced to join the Soviet Union and the end of the Republic proclaimed in 1918.
-1965: For the first time in Armenia tens of thousands flood the streets in Yerevan to commemorate the
Armenian Genocide of 1915 and demand justice from Turkey.
-A very powerful eartquake destroys much of northwestern Armenia from Spitak to Gyumri
-Karabagh Armenians fight to rejoin Armenia proper as their territory was gifted to Azerbaijan by Stalin.
-The Soviet regime comes to end in 1991 as Armenia declares its sovereignty on September 21, 1991.
 Clockwise from top left: Armenian Alphabet creator Saint Mesrob Mashdots, The impressive Khor Virab
monastery under the shadow of Ararat, The Catholicossate of Cilicia Cathedral in (Antelias, Lebanon), the Holy see
at Etchmiadzin near Yerevan and a beautiful example of tomb stone called Khatchkar (uniquely Armenian art).
The Armenian Genocide of 1915 actually started much earlier and decimated
a whole nation Հայկական ցեղասպանութեան տարողութիան
քարտէսը

Armenian Genocide memorial - Yerevan

 ՀԱՅԿԱԿԱՆ ԵՐԱԺՇՏՈՒԹԻՒՆ / ARMENIAN MUSIC

Սայաթ Նովա Armenian

troubadour Sayat Nova wrote his songs
and poems in three languages:
Armenian, Georgian, and Azerbaijani . Armenian Duduk
In his time he was the most celebrated
poet of the Caucasus. He was born in
Tiflis.

Charles Aznavour

Արամ Խաչատուրեան Aram Khachaturian is a talented composer,

whose compositions became part of the music classics of the 20-th century. His
Yerevan opera house name is recognized throughout the world, and the compositions are performed
worldwide. His “Sabre Dance” of the well-known ballet “Gayaneh” takes one of the
first places in the list of the most popular compositions of our ageղ

Կոմիտաս Վարդապետ Komitas (1869-1935)

The modern school of Armenian music was founded in the 19th century by Tigran
Choukhadjian. Through several decades of existence the national form of Armenian
music evolved. Classic Armenian artists such as Kristapor Kara-Murza, Makar
Yekmalyan, and others created these developments. The heritage of these natural
musical cultural advancements is attributed to Soghomon Soghomonian also known
as Komitas. Komitas is considered the founder of classical Armenian music. One can
speak of Armenian music “before” and “after” Komitas.
 ՀԱՅԿԱԿԱՆ ՀԱՐՈՒՍՏ ՊԱՏՈՒԱԲԵՐ ԳՐԱԿԱՆՈՒԹԻՒՆԸ
THE VERY RICH ARMENIAN LITTERATURE: SOME REPRESENTATIVES
Գրիգոր Նարեկացի
ST. GREGORY of NAREG -945-1010 A.D.)
One of the spiritual glories of Armenia is the
mystical writer Gregory of Nareg, author of the"
Book of Lamentations ". Gregory of Nareg was
born about 945, and was educated at the Դանիէլ Վարուժան
monastery of Narek, South of Lake Van.
Daniel Varoujan (1884-1915)

Երեւանի Մատենադարանը
Yerevan Madenataran archives

Յակոբ Պարոնեան Hagop Baronian:

the greatest Armenian satirist

Վահան Թեքէեան Պետրոս

. Դուրեան
Ուիլիամ Սարոյեան Vahan Tekeyan Bedros Tourian
William Saroyan
 ՀԱՅ ՂԵԿԱՎԱՐՆԵՐ ԵՒ ՀԵՐՈՍՆԵՐ
ARMENIAN LEADERS AND HEROES

Արամ
Մանուկեան
Aram Manoukian

Հ.Յ.Դ. Հիմնադիրներ Վարդան

A.R.F. Founding fathers Մամիկոնեան
Vartan Mamiguonian

Սերոբ Աղբիւր
Serop Pasha

Գեւորգ
Չաւուշ Րաֆֆի
Kevork Raffi
Chavoush

Խրիմեան Հայրիկ Mkrtich Khrimyan Hayrig 1820 – 1907 was immortalized

when he was proclaimed “Hayrik” (Father),” by his people. He was glorified as an Տիգրան Մեծ
advocate for justice. He was born in 1820 in Van. His famous speech upon his Dikran the Great
return from the Berlin treaty is historical Երկաթէ Շերեբ.
The Republic of Armenia today is only 29,800
km.sq. With a population of around 3.1 million.
The Capital is Yerevan. It is subdivided to eleven
administrative provinces called Marz. Karabagh is
de Facto united with Armenia. The Western
Armenian lands are still under Turkish
occupation. Armenians still demand justice. Մայր Հայաստան The native Armenian name for the country is Hayk’.
Mother Armenia The name in the Middle Ages was extended to
Hayastan, by addition of the Iranian suffix -stan (land).
The name has traditionally been derived from Hayk
(Հայկ), the legendary patriarch of the Armenians and
a great-great-grandson of Noah, and established his
nation in the Ararat region
 Armenian Alphabet

In the late 4th century AD, king

Vramshapuh of Armenia asked
Mesrop Mashtots, one of the
officials in his chancellery and a
prominent scholar, to create a
new alphabet for Armenian.
Before then, Armenian had been
written with 'cuneiform' scripts, Քարահունջ, Սիւնիք
which was deemed unsuitable Megalithic stones at Karahunge
for religious works by the
Armenian Church.

Mashtots travelled to Անի /Ani

Alexandria, where he studied
the principles of writing and
came to the conclusion that the
Greek alphabet was the best
alphabet in use at that time
because there was an almost
one-to-one correspondence
between sounds and letters. He
used this model to come up
with a new alphabet, which he
presented to the king when he
returned to Armenia in 405 AD.

The new alphabet was well-

received and a new Armenian
translation of the bible was
published in 405 AD. Other
literary works soon followed. Աղթամար Aghtamar
 ԱՐՑԱԽԻ
ԱՐՑԱԽԻ ԱԶԱՏՈՒԹԵԱՆ
ԱԶԱՏՈՒԹԵԱՆ ԵՐԿԱՐԱՇՈՒՆՋ
ԵՐԿԱՐԱՇՈՒՆՋ ՊԱՅՔԱՐԸ
ՊԱՅՔԱՐԸ
THE
THE STRUGGLE
STRUGGLE FOR
FOR ARTSAKH
ARTSAKH (KARABAGH)
(KARABAGH) SELF
SELF DETERMINATION
DETERMINATION

Շուշիի մէջ ընդարձակ

հարսանիք Mass wedding
ceremony in liberated Shushi!