Discover Armenia
Armenia is an epic land. Armenia is one of the ancient countries with a long, great and at times tragic history. Beautiful mountainous landscapes, numerous cultural and historical monuments of Armenia would never leave one cold!
Komitas is one of the brightest Armenian composers and musicians. He was born in 1869 in Turkey, studied in Etchmiadzin’s theological seminary, in conservatory and university in Berlin, lived in Constantinople, one of the significant centers of Armenian culture and died in France in 1935. He died in a Paris mental hospital. His mental desease [...]
Short film by Bettina Timm about Cosmic Ray Station on Aragats mountain in Armenia near the lake Qarilich at 3250 meters. The station was founded by world-known Armenian physicists Alikhanyan brothers in 1943. Research facilities are located on two high-altitude stations on Mt. Aragats: Nor-Amberd Station and Aragats Station. Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) headquarters are at [...]
About 11,000 years ago the ice shield of the last Ice Age covering the Armenian mountains started to melt. The new stage of the formation of Armenian relief began. The passing glacier formed a lot of cirques (an amphitheater-like valleys) on its way, part of which became tarns. A tarn is a mountain lake or pool [...]
