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Armenians already had established notable settlements in Istanbul and other Ottoman port cities in the 17th and 18th centuries due to their active participation in global trade. Despite the Muslim dominance in Ottoman society, a limited number of Armenian families managed to secure influential positions in banking, commerce, and government.
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.
In 1827 and 1829, the United States offered to purchase Mexican Texas. Both times, President Guadalupe Victoria declined to sell part of the border state. [2] After the failed Fredonian Rebellion in eastern Texas, the Mexican government asked General Manuel Mier y Terán to investigate the outcome of the 1824 General Colonization Law in Texas ...
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.
[1] She also states that the photographs of weapons used to depict the Armenians as criminals were false, and that "Turkish ammunition had been added" to make a stronger case. [1] When the deportations began, Graffam was also deported along with her students on July 7, 1915, as part of a convoy that consisted of 2,000 Armenians.
The region was in "a state of revolutionary turmoil" because the local Armenians had refused to pay taxes for the past seven years. [ 8 ] [ 33 ] Andranik and tens of other fedayi —including Hrayr and Sebouh —held a meeting at Gelieguzan village in the third quarter of 1903 to manage the future defense of the Armenian villages from possible ...
In a striking acknowledgment of the need to address the migrant influx at the southern border, the Biden administration announced it waived 26 federal laws to permit more border wall construction ...
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 ...