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500TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST ARMENIAN PRINTED BOOK TO BE CELEBRATED IN TURKEY WITH A RANGE OF EVENTS
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS: 500th anniversary of First Armenian
Printed Book will be celebrated with a range of events in Turkey. As
Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople informed Armenpress, cultural
celebrations dedicated to 500th anniversary of First Armenian Printed
Book are in progress. Lectures, exhibitions covering various activities
of the printing are scheduled in the frame of the celebrations.
"Community schools do not abstain and in their turn embarking various
measures to celebrate 500th anniversary of First Armenian Printed Book
in a proper way" Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople announces .
Armenian printing houses have been established in Smyrna, Armash,
Van, Mush, Bursa, Adana, Adrianople, Adabazar, Nikomediaya , Samsun,
Karin, Yerznka, Yevdokiya, Kharberd, Marzva, Ayntap and elsewhere.
Printing houses established in Armenian populated cities in Western
Armenia and Ottoman Empire ceased to operate in the years of Armenian
Genocide. Hundreds of printing houses, libraries were destroyed;
thousands of Armenian books were burnt down in the course of those
years.
By 1800 over 350 Armenian books were published in Constantinople.
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS: 500th anniversary of First Armenian
Printed Book will be celebrated with a range of events in Turkey. As
Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople informed Armenpress, cultural
celebrations dedicated to 500th anniversary of First Armenian Printed
Book are in progress. Lectures, exhibitions covering various activities
of the printing are scheduled in the frame of the celebrations.
"Community schools do not abstain and in their turn embarking various
measures to celebrate 500th anniversary of First Armenian Printed Book
in a proper way" Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople announces .
Armenian printing houses have been established in Smyrna, Armash,
Van, Mush, Bursa, Adana, Adrianople, Adabazar, Nikomediaya , Samsun,
Karin, Yerznka, Yevdokiya, Kharberd, Marzva, Ayntap and elsewhere.
Printing houses established in Armenian populated cities in Western
Armenia and Ottoman Empire ceased to operate in the years of Armenian
Genocide. Hundreds of printing houses, libraries were destroyed;
thousands of Armenian books were burnt down in the course of those
years.
By 1800 over 350 Armenian books were published in Constantinople.