Armenia: The Epic Land

amgumen
3-26-2008 10:04 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fb885451-0a44-4af2-bff6-d9896c905078/F9821FD1-AAF0-4FC5-B714-09467B88DCAF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/03/armenia-epic-land.html" href="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/03/armenia-epic-land.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.darkroastedblend.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/03/armenia-epic-land.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.darkroastedblend.com/img/BFBA9A9B-4803-4B85-A7E2-9406EB93612D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/03/armenia-epic-land.html"><FONT size="1">(Khorvirap Monastery with Mount Ararat, photo by <A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrandrew/">Andrew Behesnilian</A>)</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/03/armenia-epic-land.html"><DIV>Armenia is one of the oldest countries on Earth, its rich history apparent at every turn, from the capital city of Yerevan to the outskirts of the nation. It survived the Roman Empire, Alexander the Great, the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and dozens of other attempts at conquest - remaining largely independent throughout its history.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/03/armenia-epic-land.html"><DIV>Armenia was also among the first post-Soviet countries to readily embrace capitalism, which served to improve somewhat the standard of living, but brought with it a score of other problems. However, regardless of (presently improving) economic situation, the point of this article is to remind the reader (and maybe the future visitor) about the incredible natural and cultural wonders of this country.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/03/armenia-epic-land.html"><B>Feel the deep poetry of stones:</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/03/armenia-epic-land.html"><DIV>(Armenia's mystical old churches & monasteries)</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; 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3-26-2008 10:40 PM
kenstipe
Lovely
3-27-2008 12:51 AM
righthand
Brilliant. Informative.
3-27-2008 1:41 AM
merrie
Wonderful!
3-27-2008 5:14 AM
abailart
A great clip. Thanks.
3-27-2008 2:49 PM
carrerinyes
A beautiful clip. Armenia is beautiful!
3-27-2008 6:06 PM
denialll
Amazing nature and history
3-28-2008 1:57 AM
mickfinn
A lovely clip.
Armenia's mystical old churches & monasteries
I read somewhere that Armenia was home to one of the earliest Christian communities and that it was the first country to adopt that religion as the ‘state religion’.
3-28-2008 3:21 AM