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Title: Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gaidzakian, Ohan, 1837-1914. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, B. H. Aznive
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he 19th of November, A. D. 1393,he ended his mortal career at Paris. Leo, King of Armenia,was of small stature, but of intelligent expression and of wellformed features. His body was carried to the tomb clothed inroyal robes of white, according to the custom of Armenia, withan open crown upon his head and a golden sceptre in his hand.He lay in state upon a bier hung with white, and surrounded bythe ofificers of his household, clothed all of them in white robes.He was buried by the high altar of the church of the Celestine.The following epitaph is on his monument, which still existsto-day: Here lies Leo. VL, the noble Lousinian Prince, The King of Armenia, Who died 1393 A. D., Nov. 23d, in Paris. -70 ILLUSTRATED ARMENIA The enemy had rendered the country a complete desert,and it still remains so. The people also fell mider the ironyoke of the Mohammedan power, and still suffer all the injus-tice and cruelties of such a government as that of Turkey, whichhas no excuse for its existence.
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CATHERINE KORNARO, LAST QUEEN OF ARMENIA. CHAPTER III. THE PERIOD OF THE ARMENIAN SUBJECTION FROM I375 TO THE PRESENT TIME. From the overthrow of Leo VI., the last of the Rupeniandynasty, in 1375, ^^^^ Armenian Monarchy ceased to exist.From that time forward even the semblance of civil autonomydisappeared. Whether, and when, it is destined to reappear^as the outcome of the present situation, is one of the questionswhich is still awaiting solution. The absorption of Armenia,now deprived of her kings, first by Persian and again by Turk-ish rulers, makes it no easy matter to trace the course of herchequered history. How many thousands of their children were alienatedfrom their paternal homes and home altars to adopt Moham-medanism, to swell the number of the Janissaries; how manythousands of families were compelled to exchange the re-ligion of Christ, which is the religion of love and chastity, withthe religion of Mohammed, which is the religion of sensualismand tyranny; how many thousan

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