Armenian-American
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An Armenian-American is an American whose ancestry stems, either wholly or partly, from Armenia. During the United States 2000 Census, 385,488 Americans indicated either full or partial Armenian ancestry[1].
The first Armenian known to have moved to America was Martin the Armenian. He arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1618, when the colony was only eleven years old. Armenians began to arrive in the United States in high numbers in the late 19th century. However, the influx was intensified when over 100,000 Armenian refugees came after World War I to flee the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Since the 1960's and increasing after the 1980's, waves of Armenians from the former Soviet Union arrived for ideological freedom and economic opportunities and settled in older established Armenian communities across the country. Most of the early Armenian immigrants who came from Soviet Armenia actually lived pretty comfortably in their former country but sought freedom from Communist repression. Armenia became an independent republic in 1991 restored hopes of an Armenian renewal in neighboring Turkey whose government failed to admit the historically proven existence and apologize for the Armenian Genocide, yet to be achieved.
California hosts the largest Armenian-American population. The first Armenian to arrive in California was called Normart, which means new man in Armenian. He settled in Fresno in 1874. In the 1920s, Armenians began to move from rural regions to cities, such as Los Angeles. By 1930, the Armenian population of Los Angeles was the largest in California. The largest concentration of Armenian-Americans are located in Glendale, California, where 26.2% of residents identified themselves as Armenian on the 2000 US Census[2]. Many cities and counties located in the state of California including Anaheim, Bakersfield, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Fresno, Hollywood, the farming areas of Imperial Valley and Monterey County or the Salinas Valley, North Hollywood, Pasadena, Palm Desert, Palm Springs, the San Diego area and the Greater Los Angeles area (made up of Los Angeles and Orange County) have sizable Armenian communities.
The eastern part of the Hollywood district of Los Angeles was named "Little Armenia" on October 6, 2000[3]. Armenian-Americans gather in multiple towns and cities every year on April 24 to take part in a protest for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The largest of such protests occurs in the Los Angeles area.
Other important Armenian-American communities include the Boston suburb of Watertown, Massachusetts, Detroit and Northern New Jersey of the New York City metropolitan area. In recent years, Armenian communities developed in Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona, and some Armenian Americans have family connections with the Armenian communities of Canada and Mexico.
[edit] See also
- Armenian Diaspora
- Armenian-American music
- Armenian American Political Action Committee
- Armenian National Committee of America
- Armenian Assembly of America
- Armenian Youth Federation
- Armenian Church Youth Organization of America
- List of Armenian-Americans
- Little Armenia, Los Angeles, California
- Diaspora politics in the United States
[edit] External links
- Information about Armenian-Americans in the United States
- More Information about Armenian-Americans
- Armenian Political Organization
- Community Based Website
- Armenian Student Association
[edit] References
- ^ http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_QTP13&-geo_id=01000US&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-_sse=on
- ^ http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Armenian.html
- ^ http://www.littlearmenia.com/html/little_armenia/00-1958.asp
- ^ http://www.armeniadiaspora.com/followup/population.html
- ^ Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Gale, 2000. 3
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