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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? Armen

• 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.