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  • Ter-Petrosian Publishes Book On Armenian History

    Monday, 9 January, 2006


    By Ruzanna Stepanian

    Armenia's reclusive former President Levon Ter-Petrosian has published a
    promised book on medieval Armenian history that drew praise from the
    head of the country's largest writers association on Monday.

    The first 600-page volume of the book, available in Yerevan's book
    stores since December, presents and analyzes close contacts between
    European Crusaders and the once thriving Armenian kingdom of Cilicia
    that existed from the 11-15th centuries. Ter-Petrosian aides said the
    ex-president took six years to write and is now working on the second
    volume.

    The book, titled `The Crusaders and Armenians,' gives readers insights
    into one of the least researched subjects of Armenian history. Cilicia,
    which was located along the northeastern corner of the Mediterranean,
    was a major transit point in the medieval crusades to the Holy Land,
    resulting in a great deal of interaction between the local population
    and European knights.

    `I think that the book looks through a scientific prism at historical
    scripts that have not been at the center of our historians' attention
    until now,' Levon Ananian, chairman of the Writers Union of Armenia,
    told RFE/RL. `Levon Ter-Petrosian has thus made a serious and weighty
    contribution to Armenian studies.'

    A Ter-Petrosian spokesman, Avetis Avagian, said the man who led Armenia
    to independence in 1991 plans no special events to present or promote
    the book. Ter-Petrosian, who turned 61 on Monday, has rarely been seen
    in public or spoken to the media since his resignation almost nine years
    ago.

    `Fortunately, Levon Ter-Petrosian is not hibernating on his laurels of
    the first president of Armenia but is actively participating in Armenian
    studies,' said Ananian. `As head of the Writers Union, I am pleased to
    see his return to active creative work.'

    Ter-Petrosian was a senior researcher at Yerevan's famous Institute of
    Ancient Manuscripts before being propelled into politics in 1988. He
    also remains a member of the Writers Union.
    "All truth passes through three stages:
    First, it is ridiculed;
    Second, it is violently opposed; and
    Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

    Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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