Exploring Yerevan’s ‘biography’ with Mark Grigoryan
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Mark Grigoryan, a journalist, author, and the former director of Armenia’s National Museum of Architecture, speaks about Yerevan’s evolution over the millennia at a symposium organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Grigoryan’s speech took place on July 3, in Yerevan.
This year’s Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia took place in Yerevan, Tbilisi, and Istanbul from July 1 to July 20, 2024.
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What an inspirational, engaging and beautiful story! Thank you so much!
Mark Grigoryan's snappily told, original, episodic and many-faceted history of the "garden" city of Yerevan from pre-Urartu (782 BC) times to now.
The word “Paradise” comes from Armenian word պարտեզ or “partez” which of course in early days civilizations was a real Paradise especially for those who had never seen a cultivated land which is what an orchard is.
It comes from Persian, not Armenian.
@@lashachakhunashvili1399 There is no such word as "partez", in the Persian language. Lol 😅
@@lynetteh824 There's no such a word as "paradise" in the Armenian language. 😅 LOL
The Zoroastrian term (used in the Avesta) "pairidaēza" was borrowed and transformed to its modern form via Greek and Latin. Google is free 🔍
Cultivating land is one of the earliest and most important advances in civilization but of course that is not the only thing that was done and being done. Look where has humanity come. The thing with that particular invention - land cultivation, is that it captured people’s imagination and encouraged innovation and becoming thinking and developing human unlike other life forms on earth.
@@lashachakhunashvili1399 It was never called paradise in the old Persian language, but "pardis," which means a walled enclosure, a garden, a locked land mass for agriculture & cultivating. In old Armenian it was called "partez." Paradise is a modern English word & even further, it has a very different meaning to the word pardis, which again, means a garden of walled enclosure.
1:02 good job on keeping things "unbiased"
Average Suny moment.
Armenians are obsessed with Yerevan, to the point where more than 90% of investment in Armenia goes there, while the rest of the country remains under-developed. It means the villages and other places are depopulated, with most having to go to Yerevan for jobs. The short-sighted and illogical development of 'putting all the eggs in one basket' at Yerevan may prove to be Armenia's downfall, given the fact that Yerevan has sucked vital resources from the vulnerable southern provinces needed for development. Thus it's nice to hear all about the centuries of development of Yerevan, but for me it's simply evidence of a misplaced focus on one city, at the expense of the rest of the country.
You can't name a single country where villages haven't depopulated due to outmigration, it's a global trend, pure statistics. I totally agree with ''a misplaced focus'' though, it's the same in neighboring Georgia.
В России так же
You might not know that the current government does much for the undeveloped areas including roads that were not fixed for 40 years, fixing schools and kindergardens, resolving problems with drinking and irrigation water etc.
There are many programs aimed to make the villagers' life and work easier - construction of new homes in borderline villages when government covers both the construction of the house and the bank interest on the loan for it, subvention programs for the communities when the community priorities the project, the smart barns, drip irrigation etc.
It is not easy to do all these things - when those communities were virtually neglected for a long long time and have a long list of necessary projects.
@@lashachakhunashvili1399 the problem is that most countries don't have 75% of their rural borders threatened by a genocidal neighbour, so in Armenia's case depopulation isn't just an economic issue, it's a huge security threat, unlike most others,
@@vikik4714 actually we are very aware of 'improvements', as we live in a rural village. I can tell you most improvement programmes are by NGOs, not the government, and from what we see, it's still a long way from acceptable. However, the point being made here is that there's a huge disparity between the investment in Yerevan and rural Armenia, which is totally wrong. In my view, more than half of all investment should go to rural Armenia, given the economic and security necessity to develop this area; yet less than 10% investment does.
Huge kudos to Mark Grigoryan, what a great video! I did not appreciate Suny's presence though, I have to say. He is an embarrassment.
yerevan had a huge azerbaijani population, I wonder what has happened to them?
Baku was founded by Armenians What happened to sumgayet Armenians ?
@@aleenmartin9103 whataboutism
Armenia got decolonized, end of story. What happened to *indigenous* Armenians of Western Armenia, Nakhijevan and Artsakh, though?
@@theyeening rule armenians for sure.
@@theyeening decolonized, end of story.
Get a real job guys XD
True, they should instead produce videos with 18 views like you.
Tbilisi and Yerevan may or may not share many things but what they do have in common is a stubborn indifference to (or a denial of) the non-Georgian and non-Armenian parts of their histories respectively.
I don't know about Georgia, but Armenians have no stubborn nor arrogant indifference to their just history. If anything, the history of Ottoman Armenia, the last century of the Republic of Turkey & Soviet Armenia, have done their best to suppress the just ancient history of Armenia, which is coming to light now,
@@lilalucia1554 Ask as many Armenians as you want if they know that their capital had been a majority Muslim town for a few centuries up until the early 20th century and their answers will change your mind. 🙂
@@lashachakhunashvili1399 Yes, many Armenians know there was a "khanate" in Yerevan, but it's just the same as the Ottoman occupiers. Don't forget that this khanate had all sorts of regional peoples who were Nomadic, tribal & mostly Asian hordes & Tatars, Khazars. Just because they took over & were dwelling there, that doesn't mean they were the original Armenian peoples, owners of the land. Thank goodness all the riff raff were cleared out.
@@lynetteh824 then Aliyev too has a thing or two to say about getting rid of some "riff-ruff" from his country. Now what? Circling back and forth? You must be tired at some point 😅 it's the 21st century outside
@@lashachakhunashvili1399how about Tiflis populated mostly by the Armenians?! Did Georgians embrace their Armenian heritage?
Turks ruled armenians were dnaa is.
You are out of your mind Yoldash!
Cope.