Nov 11,2019 The murder of a priest and his Dad

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Why do Armernians live in Syria?
I thought they lived in Armenia or Europe and USA.
 
jesusmademe said:
Why do Armernians live in Syria?
I thought they lived in Armenia or Europe and USA.
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They live there because during the Armenian Genocide many Armenians, especially women, children and elderly, were forcibly marched out of Armenia to the Syrian Desert by their Turkish captors. (The able-bodied men were mostly just killed.) The ones who didn’t die on the march were forced to live in Syria as the Turks would not let them live in Armenia. Some of the descendants of those people still live there, where their ancestors were forced to live.

Because of the Armenian Genocide, there are communities of Armenians in several MIddle Eastern countries as well as in Russia and Australia, in addition to the communities in Europe.

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The Middle East (Especially Lebanon) has a large Armenian population as a result of certain actions that took place in the Ottoman empire, I will leave it at that.
 
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Why do Armernians live in Syria?
I thought they lived in Armenia or Europe and USA.
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As other have already mentioned, Armenians have been living in the Middle East for a long time. I recall at least one queen of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem who was Armenian. There is an Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem.

During the Armenian Genocide, the Turks deported the Armenians from their ancestral homeland and forced them to go on “death marches” to the Syrian desert. Those who survived the journey were killed when they reached Syria. Many escaped, however, and a huge number ended up in Lebanon where we Maronites hid them in our monasteries. The descendants of these escapees are the Armenian Lebanese community.
 
I would note that Armenians have also been living in Jerusalem since the 4th century when Armenian monks settled there, and one quarter of the city is called the “Armenian Quarter”. Politically, it acts in alignment with the Christian Quarter, as the Armenians are Christians, but unlike most other Christians in Jerusalem they are neither Arab nor Palestinian, so they have their own traditional quarter.

We ate in a pizza restaurant there and it had a large graphic mural covering one wall memorializing the Armenian Genocide.
 
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May God rest their souls.
Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.
 
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