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Its basis in Eastern Armenia was a long swing dress – arkhalugh with one-piece front shelves and a trimmed back, an elegant long neckline on the chest, fastened only at the waist. They sewed arkhalughs from sitz, satin or silk, usually blue, green or purple colors, lined in thin cotton vatina , lined with longitudinal lines and vertical lines ...
The other known settlement of that era on the territory of modern Armenia is the Metsamor castle. During the Middle Ages, Armenian vernacular tradition was flourishing in the cities of Ani and Dvin, which became the capitals of Bagratid Armenia and Arminiya respectively. The vernacular architecture of Ani was primarily represented by two types ...
Soviet Armenia (1924) was the first Armenian documentary film. Namus was the first Armenian silent black and white film (1926, Namus at IMDb ), directed by Hamo Beknazarian and based on a play of Alexander Shirvanzade describing the ill fate of two lovers, who were engaged by their families to each other since childhood, but because of ...
The church of San Gregorio Illuminatore (St Gregory the Illuminator) was the former church of the Armenian Catholic branch in Livorno, region of Tuscany. Destroyed after the Second World War, only the elegant Baroque facade remains, now property of the Patriarch of Cilicia , and standing between two three story buildings serving since 2008 as ...
The Matenadaran (Armenian: Մատենադարան), officially the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, [a] is a museum, repository of manuscripts, and a research institute in Yerevan, Armenia.
The Armenian dance (Armenian ... Normally, if a man is the one dancing, the music will be fast-paced and in the case of a woman, a slower, more elegant music will play.
The Armenian-American singer Cher was famously photographed with the headless statue of Lenin when she visited Armenia in April 1993. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] In 1996 president Levon Ter-Petrosyan ordered the dismantling of the pedestal, causing significant controversy and a wave of protests from a wide range of groups and individuals who emphasized its ...
Ancient Armenia refers to the history of Armenia during Antiquity.It follows Prehistoric Armenia and covers a period of approximately one thousand years, beginning at the end of the Iron Age with the events that led to the dissolution of the Kingdom of Urartu, and the emergence of the first geopolitical entity called Armenia in the 6th century BC.