Antelias: COMMUNIQUE (No.:1) – “Culture of Cilicia

Press Release
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
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Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version:

COMM UNIQUE (? 1)

“Culture of Cilician Armenia”

International Conference in Antelias

“Culture of Cilician Armenia” International Conference will take place
January 18-20, 2007, in Antelias-Lebanon by the initiation and under
patronage of His Holiness Catholicos Aram I, in cooperation with the
Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia and Yerevan Mashtots
Matenadaran.

The Conference will cover the following areas:
1.. History: History of culture of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia:
geopolitical, inter-political and inter-church relations.

2.. Medieval Armenian Universities: The influence of Cilician scriptoria
in the development of Armenian literature and scripture art. Medieval
universities and their cooperation.

3.. Law: Medieval law and Cilician Constitution. Inter-state and
inter-church relations and the aspect of law. Right to heritage and medieval
social relations.

4.. Art: Miniature, applied arts, architecture: monasteries, fortresses,
secular constructions.

5.. Ethnography: Cilician national ceremonies, holidays, dresses, life and
traditions.

6.. Cilician Holy Relics: Relics of Saints brought to Antelias from
Cilicia.

7.. Economy: Cilician money, Cilician trade relations, scales and measure
units, Cilician marine and soil trade ways.

8.. Summery: Cilician phenomenon after the fall of the Armenian Kingdom of
Cilicia.

For more information about the Conference you may visit the following
sites: and or write to the
following addresses:
Arshak Banuchyan, Yerevan Bishop Nareg Alemezian, Antelias
Tel: (+374 10) 56 27 69 Tel: (+961 4) 410001
Fax: (+374 10) 52 04 20 Fax: (+961 4) 417971
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]

Organi zing Committee

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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of the
Catholicosate, The Cilician Catholicosate, the
administrative center of the church is located in Antelias, Lebanon.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS