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The Armenian Genocide Memorial complex (Armenian: Հայոց ցեղասպանության զոհերի հուշահամալիր, Hayots tseghaspanutyan zoheri hushahamalir, or Ծիծեռնակաբերդ, Tsitsernakaberd) is Armenia's official memorial dedicated to the victims of the Armenian genocide, built in 1967 on the hill of Tsitsernakaberd (Armenian: Ծիծեռնակաբերդ) in Yerevan.
Armenian Genocide Memorial Lebanon Bikfaya: 1965 Tsitsernakaberd (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute) Armenia Yerevan: 1967 Montebello Genocide Memorial: United States Montebello, California: 1968 Marseille Genocide Memorial (avenue du Prado) France: Marseilles: 1973 [4] Armenian Genocide Memorial Iran: Saint Sarkis Cathedral, Tehran: 1973 ...
There is an Armenian genocide memorial in Yerevan that is located on a hill to the west overlooking the city called Tsitsernakapert. Its construction started in 1966 after 1 million Armenians demonstrated in Yerevan on the 50th anniversary of the genocide. The construction of the monument was completed in 1968.
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր Mets Yegherrni zoheri hishataki or) or Armenian Genocide Memorial Day [5] is a public holiday in Armenia and is observed by the Armenian diaspora on 24 April. [5] [6] It is held annually to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915.
Tsitsernakaberd is the official memorial to the Armenian genocide victims in Yerevan, Armenia.It was opened in 1967 after a mass demonstration that took place in Yerevan on April 24, 1965, on the 50th anniversary of the deportation of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople that marked the beginning of the genocide.
The eternal flame at the center of the twelve slabs, located at the Armenian Genocide Memorial complex in Yerevan, Armenia. Armenian genocide recognition is the formal acceptance of the fact that the Ottoman Empire's systematic massacres and forced deportation of Armenians from 1915 to 1923, both during and after the First World War, constituted genocide.
The building of this memorial to the fallen of the genocide was the first step in honoring important events and figures in Armenia's long history. Monuments honoring the Armenian victories in Sardarapat and Bash Abaran against the Ottoman Turks in 1918, among others, were later built one after the other.
The Genocide memorial and museum. History Museum of Armenia (1920) [2] Yerevan History Museum (1931) [3] Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (1967) [4] Erebuni Museum (1968) [5] Mother Armenia Military Museum (1970) Museum of Police History of Armenia (1977) ARF History Museum (2007) Central Bank Museum and history of money (2011)