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From 2021 to 2023, 0.5% to 0.7% of Armenians attended UC Berkeley as new undergraduates; this was comparable to California being 0.7% Armenian, but with the vast majority of them living in Southern California as opposed to Northern California, this was disproportionate for the Bay Area having an estimated 0.2-0.3% Armenian American population.
Louise Ziazan Nalbandian (12 September 1926 – 2 December 1974) was an American Armenian historian and professor in the History Department at California State University, Fresno from 1964 to 1974. She was the author of The Armenian Revolutionary Movement : The Development of Armenian Political Parties Through the Nineteenth Century .
Armenians are mostly concentrated in and around the cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. The 2000 Census reported only 2,528 Armenians in San Francisco, but Hayk, the Ubiquitous Armenian, stated that "the actual number is probably much higher, since the census is usually lower than actuals". [98] [99] [100]
Sophie Areshian (Armenian: Սոֆի Արեշյան; 1881, in Tbilisi – 1971, in Montreal), also known by her pseudonym of Rubina, was an Armenian revolutionary and fedayi. She joined the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) after meeting several leaders of the organization in Baku , she became politically aligned with the far left under ...
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Monte Melkonian (Armenian: Մոնթէ Մելքոնեան; [b] 25 November 1957 – 12 June 1993) was an Armenian-American revolutionary [1] and left-wing nationalist militant. He was a commander in the Artsakh Defence Army and was killed while fighting against Azerbaijan in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
In 1938, he opened Omar Khayyam's restaurant in San Francisco, California, which was open for more than 40 years. [1] He was important in popularizing Armenian cuisine in the United States. [2] Mardikian was the founder of ANCHA (American National Committee To Aid Homeless Armenians). [3] He is a nephew of Armenian revolutionary Krikor Amirian.
The CFPB said that from 2015 to 2021, Citi “treated Armenian Americans as criminals who were likely to commit fraud.” Citi fined $25.9M for discriminating against Armenian Americans after ...