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Armenia. This is common knowledge for those of us who live in los angeles, which has a sizable population of Armenians.

• binarymax 10y ago
  Yes. I don't know why this article is phrased as a question - it is an established fact. Also, what is going on with the location debate Europe vs Asia? Armenia is in the squarely between the caucuses and the middle east.
  • awl130 10y ago
    When I first met my friend who had the last name "Arabian", as a naive 23 yr old I asked him if he was arab. and he said "no way man, I'm armenian, we're the first christians." I was properly rebuked, we became life long friends, and that fact has become a fundamental part of how i view all armenians. I went on to learn about their incredible history of survival including the still unrecognized genocide at the hands of the turks. an ultimately triumphant struggle to remain independent and preserve their culture.
  • derefr 10y ago
    I still find it strange that we consider the Europe/Asia distinction relevant now that we know they're part of the same tectonic plate. They're still separate cultural regions, maybe (insofar as religions that tend to spread through one will peter out at the borders of the other), but if we're talking about regions of cultural influence, then the ex-Soviet states are all effectively "Europe", while the Middle East [in modernity] forms its own region. But for some reason we keep trying to classify things as "in Europe" or "in Asia." There's no there there, folks.
• js2 10y ago
  My last name ends in "ian." This suffix is common among Armenians. Yet as far as I know of my ancestry, I'm eastern-european (Poland, Romania, Belarus, Ukraine) Jewish. So I doubt I've got any Aremenian in my blood. I'd love to figure out the provenance of my last name. Maybe just a typo immigrating to America (the oldest U.S. census on which my name appears is 1900).