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  2. Armenian merchantry - Wikipedia

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    They played a significant role in the internal economy of the Ottoman Empire. The Armenians participated in almost every business, yet they held near-total monopoly in specific trades. [29] Armenian merchants within the dominion of the Ottoman Empire had control over much of the trade of the Middle East and Central Asia.

  3. Taxation in Armenia - Wikipedia

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    Taxation in Armenia is regulated by the State Revenue Committee, which is the tax authority of the Armenian government. [1] Meanwhile, the Armenian Tax Service is responsible for the collection of taxes, providing revenue services , preventing tax fraud and tax evasion , and implementing various tax reform programs in conjunction with the State ...

  4. Armenians in the Byzantine Empire - Wikipedia

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    Empress Theodora had Armenian roots, along with her brothers, uncle, nephews, and other numerous relatives who exercised regency during the minority of her son, Michael III (r. 842–867). [46] [47] According to N. G. Adontz, she belonged to the Nakharar Mamikonian family. [48] A depiction of Emperor Leo the Armenian in a 15th century ...

  5. A 'blood money' betrayal: How corruption spoiled reparations ...

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    In the mid-2000s, attorneys won a pair of legal settlements for $37.5 million in the names of Armenian genocide victims. But families who stepped forward to collect on behalf of ancestors in one ...

  6. Armenians who fled Turkish rule decades ago despair over ...

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  7. Confiscation of Armenian properties in Turkey - Wikipedia

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    From this tax, the Turkish government collected 314,900,000 liras or about US$270 million (80% of the state budget) from the confiscation of non-Muslim assets. [57] This period coincided with further confiscations of private property belonging to Armenians. Special commissions were created to separate the evictions of non-Muslims from others.

  8. Why this week's mass exodus from embattled Nagorno ... - AOL

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    The exodus of ethnic Armenians this week from the region known as Nagorno-Karabakh has been a vivid and shocking tableau of fear and misery. As of Thursday, more than 78,300 people had left the ...

  9. Muslim conquest of Armenia - Wikipedia

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    The Armenian acceptance of Arab rule irritated the Byzantines. Emperor Constans sent his men to Armenia in order to impose the Chalcedonian creed of Christianity. [6] He did not succeed in his doctrinal objective, but the new Armenian prefect, Hamazasp, who regarded the taxes imposed by the Muslims as too heavy, yielded to the Emperor.