Artsvi Vaspurakan

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Artsvi Vaspurakan was an Armenian periodical (monthly, then weekly) published in Constantinople and Varagavank in 1855-1874 by Mkrtich Khrimian and M. Ananian.

It became the first periodical published in the territory of Western (Turkish) Armenia^[1] and was dedicated to the religious life, the questions of morality and Armenian history. It propaganded the works of Saint Mesrop, Movses Khorenatsi and others, supported the idea of realisation of the National constitution in the territory of Western Armenia. Garegin Srvandztian, Raffi and others contributed to the periodical.

[edit] Sources

• Concise Armenian Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 362.

1. ^ The Armenian Question, encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, p. 64.