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Article: ARMENIA'S PRESENT PROBLEMS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF TROUBLED PAST
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 9, 1988
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Armenia, struck by a massive earthquake Wednesday, seems to have
borne more than its fair share of suffering in world history.
Located on the Caucasian massif between Asia and Europe, the
88-year-old Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic is home to 3.5
million people. Its residents bear the collective memory of
invasions by the Greeks and Persians as far back as 25 centuries
ago and the murder of hundreds of thousands during the end of
Turkish rule in World War I.
The larger, historic Armenian homeland, where Noah is said to
have landed his ark on Mount Ararat, includes the modern Soviet
republic as well as parts of eastern Turkey and a disputed chunk of
the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, ...