AYP GARK FLASHCARDS🇦🇲

12 Tavananks

1) Scouts honor their word

2) Scouts listen & respect others & their elders

3) Scouts are trustworthy & kind

4) Scouts always help each other

5) Scouts are brothers/sisters to all

6) Scouts are polite

7) Scouts always speak clean Armenian

8) Scouts love nature

9) Scouts are spirited

10) Scouts are hard workers

11) Scouts are frugal

12) Scouts have clean minds

Ari/Arenoush Khosdum

Ge kosdanam ellah havadarim asdoozoh ev zarayel azkis oo hayrenikis Mishd oknel oorishin ev korzel iprev bardagoonotyan kidagis Ari ev vehantsn mart. Hnazanteel H.M.E.Mi sgaoodneroo tavnankin.

Motives (3):

1) By teaching endurance & courage, nationalism & patriotism, obedience to the law & orderliness.

2) By developing awareness of duty, feelings of responsibility & honour, in a spirit of harmony & cooperation.

3) By satiating the mind & heart with the noblest of sporting spirit.

Eastern Region Chapters:

1) DC

2) Detroit

3) Chicago

4) Albany

5) New Jersey

6) New York

7) Providence

8) Philadelphia

9) Boston

10) Florida

11) Charlotte

12) Greater Merrimack Valley

How to fold Armenian Flag 🇦🇲

Fold orange over blue, & red under blue so that only the red is on the bottom & orange is on the top. Then make a paper football and fold the remaining flap inward.

How to fold American Flag 🇺🇲

Fold in half twice so that the stars ⭐ appear on both sides, then fold like a paper football starting with the stripes 🦓 so that the stars ⭐ are the only thing that shows once done. Fold the remaining flap inward.

Homenetmen Flag 🛡

no specific way to fold so fold li

301 AD

Armenia becomes the first nation to adopt Christianity as its state religion. King Trtad 3 & Krikor Loosavorich (St. Gregory the Illuminator).

405 AD

Mesrob Mashtos creaates the Armenian Alphabet with the guidance of the hand of God.

451 AD

Battle of Avarayr (May 26) fought on Avarayr Plain in Vaspurakan. General Vartan Mamigonian, traitor Vasak Siuni. Subject: keeping Christianity. Against: Sassanid Empire (Modern day Persia)

5th-7th AD

Armenia under periods of rule by Byzantine Empire & Sassanid Empire

885 AD

Bagratuni Dynasty begins under A shot 1 Bagratuni (independent kingdom)

1375 AD

The last Armenian kingdom (Kilikia) falls under Ottoman rule

1825 AD

Treaty of Turkmanchay, Eastern Armenia is forcefully ceded by Persia to Russia per the Russo-Persian War (1826 - 1828)

1894-1896 AD

Hamidian Massacres in which an estimated 80,000 - 300,000 killed

1915 - 1916 AD

Armenian Genocide occurs, 1.5 million killed, intellectals rounded up and killed on April 24, 1915

1918 AD

May 22 - Battle of Sardarapat || May 23 - Battle of Abaran || May 25 - Battle of Karakiliseh

May 28, 1918

Armenian Congress declares the first Republic of Armenia (first Independence)

1920 AD

Fall of the first Republic of Armenia, fully occupied by Turkish National Movement & the Red Army (Soviet Union) on December 6, 1920

1988 AD

Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes near town of Spitak, 25k killed

1988 - 1994 AD

First Artsakh War, Armenia won, ceasefire agreement in 1994 (6 years)

1991

Armenians vote in favor of independence from Soviet Union

September 21, 1991

Levon Ter-Petrosyan elected first president of Armenia || Second Independence

2016

Artsakh (4-day) war (also known as April War) from April 2 - April 5

2020

second Artsakh War (44 days) Sep 27 - Nov 10

Artsakh Blockade

Dec 12, 2022 - Sep 30, 2023 (9 months, 2 weeks & 4 days)