March 25, 2026

History of Armenia: The Life and Death of the First Republic: Part 4

Joe and Ani return with a bumper part four in their series on the history of the Armenian First Republic, examining how the fledgling state tried to escape landlocked status only to face more than a little opposition from a coterie of unsympathetic regional powers, with digressions into the puff-puff-mountain-pass of the Ganja Highlands and increasingly hazy topographical demarcations between ascending and descending notions of nationhood.

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Comments (4)

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Patrick Barnes · June 8, 2026

Due to this series and the Armenian genocide series I have been booted from a friend's discord server for pissing off his Turkish friend repeatedly

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Brendan Bonner · March 27, 2026

I had an Armenian US History teacher in high school, one of my favorite parts of the class was him roasting his relatives on Facebook who called any Armenian American Obama voter a traitor to those who died in the genocide for voting for that “Muslim”. Andranik reminded me of them.

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Noah Bruckner · March 26, 2026

Copperdiggers sounds like a slur for a people that have been forgotten

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Al · March 25, 2026

I'm going to call locker rooms dressing rooms from now on.