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Armenian community in the USA
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Armenian community in the USA
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Our compatriots in the US
Armenian Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or partial Armenian ancestry. They form the second largest community of the Armenian diaspora after Armenians in Russia.
First immigration to the USA
First immigration
The first major wave of Armenian immigration to the United States took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Thousands of Armenians settled in the United States following the Hamidian massacres of the mid-1890s, and the Armenian genocide of 1915–1918 in the Ottoman Empire.
How many armenians are in the US?
How many?
Although the number of Armenians in the US is unknown, speculation puts the number from anywhere between 500,000 to 2,000,000. Due to the fact that the US census does not have Armenian in the list of ethnicities to choose from, most Armenians just mark off "white".
First Armenian in the USA
The first one...
The first recorded Armenian to visit North America was Martin the Armenian from Iran. He was an Iranian Armenian tobacco grower who settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1618. In 1653–54, two Armenians from Constantinople were invited to Virginia to raise silk worms.
Our main cities in the US
"Armenian" cities in the US
The highest concentration of Armenian Americans descent is in the Greater Los Angeles area, where 166,498 people have identified themselves as Armenian to the 2000 Census. The city of Glendale in the Los Angeles metropolitan area is widely thought to be the centre of Armenian American life.
Where?
Among the Armenian-populated cities were Detroit, Los Angeles, Providence, Boston, Worcester, Fresno, San Francisco, etc. Over the decades, Armenians spread across the country, settling in every state. About 200,000 Armenians lived in the US in the run-up to World War II.
Little Armenia, Los Angeles
Little Armenia
Little Armenia is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. It is named after the Armenians who escaped genocide and made their way to Los Angeles during the early part of the 20th century. The ceremony opening took place on October 6, 2000, outside of Saint Garabed Armenian Apostolic Church.
The population of Little Armenia is nearly 20,680.
Population
St. Garabed
St. Garabed Armenian Apostolic Church is the place of prayer for the vast majority of Armenians in Hollywood and the surrounding areas. The Church was built in 1978 when the Prelate was Bishop Yeprem Tabakian and was annointed in 1980 by His Holiness Catholicos Karekin II of the Great House of Cilicia.
Always with us
Armenian spirit never died in our compotriots in the USA. Our community is always ready to stand and fight for our rights.
Report from Los Angeles times
"Tens of thousands of demonstrators protested outside the Turkish Consulate in Beverly Hills on Sunday afternoon in a show of solidarity with Armenia in its battle with neighboring Azerbaijan over a tiny separatist region on the border of the former Soviet republics.
The crowd was estimated at 35,000 people, at its height stretching down Wilshire Boulevard from Fairfax Avenue to La Cienega Boulevard, Beverly Hills Police Lt. Todd Withers said. The Los Angeles Police Department’s Wilshire Station later tweeted that the crowd had reached 100,000."
Los Angeles Times
Armenian organizations in the US
Armenian organization in US
- Homenetmen - Homenetmen is a pan-Armenian diaspora organization devoted to sport and scouting
- ANCA (Armenian National Committee of America) - The Armenian National Committee of America is the largest Armenian American grassroots organization.
- AAA (Armenian Assembly of America) - Non-governmental organization