#armenian — Public Fediverse posts
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Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Learn 35 facts about Ukraine this Independence Day . . . . . Everything except nukes: As the world watches Wildberries, Russia unleashes war on Ukraine’s economy . . . . . As Russian drone incursions escalate, NATO weighs costs of shooting back . . . . . Former Pussy Riot member escapes Russia after 3 years of forced work for FSB . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/tuesday-august-25-2026/
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Thursday, August 13, 2026
Cheaper than a missile, just as hard to down — Russia's Banderol munition adds strain to Ukraine's air defenses . . . . . Explosions rock Russia's Novorossiysk after unique operation targeting Black Sea Fleet . . . . . Ukraine liberated 745 square km in Oleksandrivka sector since January . . . . . Ukraine could destroy all the Russians ballistic missiles if US sells 10% of Patriot missile supply to Kyiv . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/thursday-august-13-2026/
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I'm playing around with the early-#Abbasid-era #Armenian history of Ghevond, and there's a few references to "the sons of Smbat."
The odd thing is that Smbat is usually a Bagratuni name at that period, but the editors conclude that here it must refer to some Mamikoneans, Grigor, Dawit', and Mushegh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagratuni_family_tree#Arabic_Caliphate
There's a difficulty in the text in that p.214 says Grigor and Dawit' were imprisoned in Yemen for the rest of their lives, but p.254 says the "sons of Smbat" were freed by caliph al-Walid II, detained in Syria at hiss death, and then escaped in the chaos of the civil war.
One solution is to read "for the rest of their lives" as a sentence, later abrogated, but it doesn't read that way to me. Alternatively we might emend "their lives" to "his life," and the next caliph freed them.
(The source is now available #OpenAccess online here, the work of Alison Vacca and Sergio La Porta:
https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/docs/Publications/LAMINE/lamine4.pdf) -
CW: syria, ethnic cleansing
"Syrian #Christian leader Bassam Ishak:
#Christians of #Qamishli in North East #syria are witnessing the most systematic ethnic cleansing since the #Armenian & Syriacs #genocides in 1915 by the #Ottomans"