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The first Armenian families began to settle in the Los Angeles area starting in the late 19th century. Aram Yeretzian, a social worker and Protestant Christian minister who wrote a 1923 University of Southern California thesis on the Armenians of Los Angeles, stated that the first Armenian in Los Angeles arrived in around 1900.
Little Armenia (Armenian: Փոքր Հայաստան, romanized: P’vok’r Hayastan) is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. It is named after the Armenians who escaped genocide and made their way to Los Angeles during the early part of the 20th century. [1]
The city of Los Angeles itself had an Armenian population of 64,997 in 2000. [86] Several districts of Los Angeles have high concentrations of Armenians, particularly in San Fernando Valley: North Hollywood, Van Nuys, and Encino. [87] On 6 October 2000, a small community in East Hollywood was named Little Armenia by the Los Angeles City Council ...
California lawmakers call for an investigation of how a $17.5-million settlement for Armenian genocide survivors was beset by corruption and fraud.
Under the settlement, the U.S. will sell the property "at the highest obtainable market price." The home was previously listed for sale at $63.5 million in 2022. It was later relisted for just ...
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 ...
As of 2004, there were "around 50-60 Armenian villages" in Abkhazia. [43] According to the 2011 Abkhazian census, Armenians formed the majority of the population of the Sukhumi District (6,467 Armenians, 56.1% of the total 11,531), and plurality in Gulripshi District (8,430 Armenians or 46.8% of 18,032) and Gagra District (15,422 Armenians or ...
The red, blue and orange of Armenia's flag flew on the streets of Los Angeles on Wednesday as marchers remembered the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in what is regarded as the first genocide of ...