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ARGONAUT GREEK CENTER OPENS IN ARMENIAN ALAVERDI

YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS: Greek ambassador to Armenia, Mr. Antonios Vlavianos, the president of the Federation of Greek Communities of Armenia, Nikolay Theofanov, a delegation of the World Council of Hellenes Abroad, members of the Armenian parliament, representatives of the local authorities and a large number of many representatives of the Greek community of Armenia attended on June 11 the official opening ceremony of Greek Argonaut Center in the northern Armenian town of Alaverdi.

Ambassador Vlavianos, parliament member Vazgen Khachikian and Lori governor Henrik Kochianin addressed the present with speeches to reassure strong relations between the two nations. Greeks began settling in the Southern Caucasus from VI century A.D, but the current Greek population arrived in Armenia in the second half of the XVII century, when many the so-called Anatolian Greeks moved to the Caucasus and Russia from central and northern parts of the Ottoman empire because of unsteady economic and political situation. The first group of Greeks established in the northern Armenia, where they started metallurgical plants. In 1763 about 800 families (approximately 2000 people) moved from Turkey to Armenia starting a copper factory of Lalvar near today’s Alaverdi.

At the beginning of XIX century part of Greek miner specialists moved to southern Armenian Syunik to build another mining factory there. Greeks first established in Alaverdi at the end of 18-th century and now it has the biggest Greek community together with Vanadzor and Yerevan.

The Greek Argonaut Center is equipped with a satellite TV, Internet connection, computers, DVD and video players, library and all other necessary facilities for language teaching and recreation activities.

The Greek Embassy in yerevan said in a press release the Center is another milestone in the long-standing Greek-Armenian relations enhanced already by the activities of the Greek communities in Armenia and aims to strengthen the cultural relations between the two countries and to preserve the identity of Greek community in Armenia. By a decision of the municipal council Ambassador Antonios Vlavianos was declared honorary citizen of Akhtala.

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