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CD with Songs Having Lyrics in Hamshen Dialect of
Armenian Language Released in Krasnodar

11.03.2006 22:14 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ First Hamshenian CD, which was
released in the Krasnodar Territory, has collected
together most popular musical compositions, performed
in the Hamshen dialect of the Armenian language,
reported the Yerkramas, the newspaper of Armenians of
Russia. Compositions are performed by Caravan band
with organizational support of Armenian Hamshen
Scientific, Information and Cultural Center and
material assistance of local philanthropists.

In 2006 Hamshen Scientific, Information and Cultural
Center plans urgent research of the regions, where
Hamshen Armenians live, working out the structure of
Hamshen Encyclopedia, publishing scientific bulletins
on issues of Hamshen Armenians, forming a web-site of
the organization, forming ideas and script for a
documentary, issuing Hamshen library book series,
creation of Hamshen folklore theater, organization of
all-Hamshen cultural festival, etc. According to
experts, up to 250 thousand Hamshen Armenians
compactly live in Kuban, Adygeya and Abkhazia. They
come from Hamshen region of Western Armenia (now
territory of Turkey). They moved to Kuban in the
middle of the XIX century and early XX century after
the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. They speak a special
– Hamshen -dialect of the Armenian language.