What are Hamshen Armenians?

07/15/2019 Off By admin

What are Hamshen Armenians?

The Hemshin people (Armenian: համշէնցիներ, Hamshentsiner; Turkish: Hemşinliler), also known as Hemshinli or Hamshenis or Homshetsi, are a diverse group of peoples who in the past or present have been affiliated with the Hemşin and Çamlıhemşin districts in the province of Rize, Turkey.

How many Armenians are in Turkey?

The officially recognized Armenian Christian population is estimated to be between 50,000 and 70,000, mostly living in Istanbul and its environs.

How many Armenians are in Istanbul?

Today, most estimations put the number of Armenian-Turkish Citizens in Istanbul at 50,000, 60,000 or 70,000.

How many hidden Armenians are there in Turkey?

He insisted that today in the Eastern part of Turkey, in various areas of historic Armenia there live at least 2.5 million Muslim Armenians, half of which are hiding.”

What is the difference between Eastern and Western Armenian?

These days, generally speaking, Eastern Armenian is spoken in Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Georgia and Iran while Western Armenian is spoken in the other countries of the Armenian diaspora. Both are the offspring of Classical Armenian, but the phonology of EA lies more closely to that of Classical Armenian.

Where is hamshen?

Historical Hamshen lies between the Pontic mountain chain in the south and the Black Sea to the north, today part of the Turkish province of Rize. Hemshinli also live further to the east in Artvin province of Turkey in the region around Hopa.

Is Armenia a Slavic country?

No, Armenians are not Slavic. Armenian forms its own branch of the Indo-European family of languages.

How are you in Western Armenian?

This Western Armenian language guide will help provide you with the basic Armenian phrases and words that are most commonly heard/used. How are you? – Inch bes es? Laves?

Is Armenian an Indo European language?

Armenian belongs to the satem (satəm) group of Indo-European languages; this group includes those languages in which the palatal stops became palatal or alveolar fricatives, such as Slavic (with Baltic) and Indo-Iranian.