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The defter was a tax register. It recorded names and property/land ownership; it categorised households, and sometimes whole villages, by religion. The names recorded in a defter can give valuable information about ethnic background; these tax records are a valuable source for current-day historians investigating the ethnic & religious history of parts of the Ottoman Empire. [3]
The state flag is officially described by law as: a rectangle that: (1) has a width to length ratio of two to three; and (2) contains: (A) one blue vertical stripe that has a width equal to one-third the length of the flag; (B) two equal horizontal stripes, the upper stripe white, the lower stripe red, each having a length equal to two-thirds the length of the flag; and (C) one white, regular ...
As of 2007, 41% of US-born Armenians had at least a 4-year college degree. The rate is lower for foreign-born Armenians. [61] The first Armenian Sunday school in the US was founded in the late 1880s in New York by Barsegh Vardukyan. [137] Since the 1960s many Armenian bilingual schools have been established in communities throughout the country.
Coat of arms of the Republic of Texas January 25, 1839 State coat of arms: Coat of arms of Texas: 1993 National guard crest Crest of the Texas National Guard: February 18, 1924 Flower: Bluebonnets (Lupinus spp., namely Texas bluebonnet, L. texensis and sandy land bluebonnet L. subcarnosus) [1] March 1901 [3] Tree: Pecan (Carya illinoinensis ...
In 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered Citigroup to pay $24.5 million in fines and $1.4 million in restitution to Armenian Americans, alleging that the bank had illegally discriminated against members of the ethnic group and had unjustly denied them credit cards for which they had applied in a period beginning in 2015 ...
Texas refused to celebrate the U.S. Thanksgiving. But Texans refused to go along. November has five Thursdays this year. That’s how it was in 1944, 1945, 1950, 1951 and 1956.
After a day of flags getting planted on logos, plenty of on-field scuffles and even police intervention, Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian wasn't having it. The Longhorns were in good spirits ...
Flag of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic [6] 1940–1952: Flag of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic [6] 1952–1990: Flag of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic [6] Reverse flag. All flags of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union did not bear the hammer and sickle on their reverse side. 1990–1991: Flag of the Second ...