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| Richard G. Hovannisian |
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| Armenian Van/Vaspurakan |
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Edited by Richard G. Hovannisian
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From early antiquity, the Armenian people developed a rich and distinctive culture on the great highland plateau in eastern Asia Minor. On that crossroad, they interacted on many levels with civilizations of the Orient and Occident. The continuity of Armenian life in this historic homeland was brought to an abrupt end as the result of war and genocide in the early decades of the twentieth century.
The UCLA conference series, “Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces,” has been organized to explore the historical, political, cultural, religious, social, and economic legacy of a people rooted on the Armenian Plateau for three millennia.
ArmenianVan/Vaspurakan is the first of the conference proceedings to be published, in view of the fact that the area around Lake Van is the cradle of Armenian civilization.
Scholars from various disciplines present the story of Armenian Van from beginning to end. Among other regions to be featured in subsequent volumes in this series are Taron-Turuberan/Mush and Baghesh/Bitlis; Tsopk/Kharpert; Karin/Erzerum; Sebastia/Sivas; Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa; and Cilicia. |
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 | Richard G. Hovannisian
Richard G. Hovannisian is Professor of Armenian and Near Eastern History and Holder of the Armenian Educational
Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. A member of the UCLA faculty
since 1962, he organized the undergraduate and graduate programs in Armenian and Caucasian history.
He served as the Associate Director of the G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies from 1978 to 1995
and represented the State of California on the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education from 1978 to 1994.
A Guggenheim Fellow, Professor Hovannisian is the author or editor of numerous books and scholarly articles, including four volumes
on the first Republic of Armenia and five volumes on the Armenian Genocide. He has made many media appearances
on Armenian and human rights issues. He is the founder and four-time president of the Society for Armenian Studies
and serves on the board of directors of nine scholarly and civic organizations. Since 1997, he has organized semiannual
UCLA conferences on Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces. Dr. Hovannisian has received many honors for his scholarship,
civic activities, and advancement of Armenian Studies, including election to the Armenian National Academy of Sciences and
decorations from the supreme patriarchs of the Armenian Church and from the Republics of Armenia and Artsakh. |
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