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The highest concentration of Americans of Armenian descent is in the Greater Los Angeles area, where 486,498 people have identified themselves as Armenian to the 2000 Census, comprising over 45% of the 485,488 people who identified Armenian origins in the United States at the time.
This is a list of notable Armenian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.Armenian Americans are people born or raised in the United States, or who reside there, with origins in the country known as Armenia, which ranges from the Caucasian mountain range to the Armenian plateau.
As of 1990, this single area holds the largest Armenian American community in the United States as well as the largest population of Armenians in the world outside Armenia. [1] Anny P. Bakalian, the author of Armenian-Americans: From Being to Feeling Armenian, wrote that "Los Angeles has become a sort of Mecca for traditional Armenianness."
Armenian Americans are citizens of the United States who were born in Armenia, or who are of Armenian descent. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Hagop Bogigian - Opened oriental carpet store on Harvard Square in the 1870s, and is known as the "first Armenian American millionaire"; Peter Koutoujian - is an American politician who is the current Sheriff of Middlesex County, Massachusetts and a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Old Armenian Town, named for the immigrant families who settled in the neighborhood after being red-lined from owning property in other parts of the city, would provide a new home for the 5th ...
Armenian-American history (4 C, 25 P) P. American people of Armenian descent (4 C, 678 P) Pages in category "Armenian diaspora in the United States"
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