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people living in this land seven thousand years ago who was already making wine and shoes this world's oldest shoe was right here in this hole in the fourth century armenia doctors christiane see as its state religion is first christian. in the early twentieth century armenians went through the horrors of genocide we knew one point five million years we queued and moved on we near broke free from the soviet union in september one thousand nine hundred ninety one was hands independence brought to this ancient country.

in two thousand and eight archeologist police just barely and could have rivaled armenian politicians in terms of popularity news of his discovery had spread far and wide for out the world in caves in the mountains around the village of they need the archaeologists had found the settlements dating back to the year five thousand b.c. . these vessels were among the first ones when we saw them it was immediately clear to us that they dated from the copper and stone age that means that people were already living in these caves seven thousand years ago communities maintained very close contact inhabited in areas in the twin the north caucasus and miserable time here they used to migrate from north to south and or south to north of us. excavation work at the site of the ancient settlement has been going on for three years now but archaeologists still unable to say with certainty what kind of

people lived in these caves seven thousand years ago what was more traditional just take a look for an incision see a very interesting ritual the bodies of babies under one year of age although older and intact but women between the ages of eleven twenty five simply chopped up of for burial. the most interesting artifact was found in the case in two thousand and eight the world's oldest suv was dug up from a depth of just half a meter is estimated to be about six thousand years old zeus worlds all sure was very right here in this hole it was a great deal of effort to get it to the discovery of the settlement is an event of crucial importance to the small transco cajun country armenians are proud of the long history of this land and the find reinforces their pride. in on the media there are a few other handicrafts they can unite generations as much as the making of hatch

cards or tombstones. the art has undergone little change throughout its thousand year history i am a chisel and stone are all that's needed for the job a man and his grandson a working on this touch cut. this do i got this i like the job. it is handed down from generation to generation. the one who taught me as my grandfather. over the course of his long life the elderly man has made scores of hatch cars nowadays in mentors his grandson in the ways of hatch car sculpting. there are millions of hijackers here each with a different history they different just as people do all the curving patterns are different even on some particular comes down to show that the world is imperfect.

each grave or more history has its own tailor made tombstone normally it takes about a month to make one this symmetry in the village of nora jo's is one of the oldest in armenia the long history of this caucasian country a history packed with. drama can be traced by looking at the tombstones until the seventh century look quite simple that there is nothing but a cross atop the first crust of. the hash god as in the symmetry don't feature carvings although the graveyard of the small town of spin is much larger. than before the quake it was a small cemetery but as you can see now it's quite big.

for yourself into some forty days to very quickly tombs are stores such as seann comes to the symmetry quite often the always follows the same roots in this mortal place as he moves from one grave to another on the sim of the seventh one thousand nine hundred eighty eight he lost nearly all of his family. it was ten forty am when the first tremor with a magnitude of seven on the ridge the sale shook spit out thirty seconds later the tiny town was no more just a pile of rubble. more than the one of the main street in the center of the town was c. and. one quake struck there were people in every apartment out of five story houses to the phyllis's here and both sides of the road the only bit of good bread to go all of them fell a bunch of food fish only roost lying on a horse field could be seen after the quake. there is

a church where our tours house once was more than twenty years on there are a few reminders of that there are stating earthquake. but in the cold month of december in one thousand nine hundred eight people around the world came to know the name of this small town in armenia aid began pouring in. from across the soviet union and that time armenia was part of it. the powerful earthquake affected all of our main is northern areas as well as. the scale of the disaster only became apparent after several days just a handful of people had survived on of the rubble the earthquake had claimed twenty five thousand lives. such as the huge did or when the smoke cleared away three or four hours after the earthquake became clear the town had been razed to the ground war much aid begin arriving towards leaving because there were no room for. some of the aid came from numerous diasporas in foreign countries.

this footage shows charles as an avoider a french singer of armenian origin after a visit to devastated spits tak he vows to do his best to help armenia. but there's so much that i was really shocked by what i saw in spain. i could never imagine their polling scale of that disaster. because so many people were killed here but. the french cinema set up a fund for the earthquake struck country the money was used to restore dozens of houses in spits hakon gordie's armenia's second largest town it too had been affected by the disaster the town's residents unveiled the monument to as an avoider as a token of gratitude to him here for a movie on build a monument on the twenty second of september in two thousand the truth was nobody

who from all over our new came here we were also visitors from france. after the breakup of the soviet union in one nine hundred ninety one reconstruction work in armenian town slowed down the new houses built in the three years after the disaster made up only one fifth of those destroyed by. the earthquake. we came here on december second we were given a room on the ground floor and we still live here emotional tenants here are refugees. coronado petty and his family also lost their home in december one thousand nine hundred eighty eight they became refugees but not as a result of the earthquake it was a bloody interethnic conflict that forced them to flee.

armenia is a republic situated in the trans caucuses and join the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred twenty two when the republic won independence in september one thousand nine hundred ninety one this was the most troubled region in the post soviet space the country was at war with neighboring azerbaijan over nagorno-karabakh. bleach up the world for the winter. this year and this is our home. lives are my grandchildren doing their homework. is our stove it and we made it ourselves because there's no other source of eating in here in the news of the shoe and his house in azerbaijan's capital of baquba was

larger and more comfortable they had to leave their native city in a hurry already there was gunfire in the corner kind of dark as and by johnny's fleeing that area meanwhile the situation for armenians living in. azerbaijan was becoming increasingly dangerous. and we went through quite a good deal for instance my husband had an aunt with a dark complexion it was easy to see that she was a median she was attacked several times under natural. the conflicts root cause stems from the one nine hundred twenty s. when azerbaijan and armenia joined the soviet union the golan a care about a territory where armenians had been a predominant population from time immemorial was placed under azerbaijan's control they didn't matter much who controlled nagorno-karabakh back then the soviet republics were part of an integrated country by the time bomb eventually went off

and violence erupted between the two in the late one nine hundred eighty s. . the soviet government showed signs of weakness but the start of perestroika when people were told they could speak up without running the risk of being imprisoned or a security of people across the soviet union began talking about their concerns and armenians in a golden color buck started asking questions they wanted to know why they were part of azerbaijan even though armenia was next door to a country populated by people of the same nationality and culture which are wards of the of the border. but who flatly rejected the advance demands the nagorno-karabakh be handed over to armenians control. meanwhile the first major interethnic conflict was gathering pace in the soviet union south it had been fuelled by events in the small town of some guy the azerbaijan's capital introducing good massacre was the point of no return people were murdered mind you

people were killed not in the going to care about itself but in soon going to a town situated far from the going to care about to go to that there is no war now but there is no peace either there is no peace treaty to control the. no monarch i'm certainly an astrologer but those times here is nearly there gil i was in the army then was memories are those days come thick and fast and this is vocal opposition and there is a map of the soviet union in go not a pity ends workshop as a tailor you need something colorful to rest his eyes on but the map also gives food for thought he recalls the days when everybody lived in the same country a country that later bursts of the seems. this soap is

there now which was founded in november two thousand and one for the said to found the bell to call it in there and is it is and we can and i am a. nobody yet is distillery can say with any certainty when cognac from this barrel will be got old but it has every chance of becoming a vintage brand adding to the distilleries rich collection. at stella sent to a church of three hundred but will some branded each year and not read the quote ground. the british prime minister was not alone in appreciating this brandy in soviet times i mean cognac was the main symbol of the republic. many agreed that the strong beverage produced in a trans caucuses could easily compete with french cognac manufacturers.

trained in sumi going to flavor is intense you can sense a whole bouquet of flavors vs gone pretty unique beverages different stories here i can detect the flavor of our brands the sunshine of our own valley and the beauty of our landscapes of the in. the production. process in armenia and france is totally identical the spirits of the stilled in the same way and the oak barrels looks very much alike the armenians are just proud of their product as the french are of theirs but. i think that corny are clear as one of the most important and most recognizable brands produced in our name at rather a that's a good i would even see their lead so while warn me as symbols of the mist zoomable of ottoman. interrupts can be seen from several spots over the entire history of the armenian people is links to it but it's off limits to armenians they

can't reconcile themselves with the loss. culture is the same as that mallya therefore you will miss some of the agony of the new buyers in the market going to the war powers act the president must get approval from congress within sixty days of the ordering u.s. forces into combat by the president. the mountains height is five thousand one hundred thirty seven meters above sea level according to the bible mount howards was the first landmark the no assault

after escaping the great flood. you know in the bible testified and it is connected with noir ark saw after the doodle noir arc or stopped on the peak of moment. however alamance is the main source of pain and suffering for armenians under the nine hundred twenty one agreements signed by soviet and turkish leaders the symbolic mountain was left on the other side of the border the mountain today the territory of turkey but still it continues to be i mean seen by all i mean people they are asked about their new identities they start with the mound out at the fact that out of that is no longer in their territory also serves as a reminder of the greatest tragedy of the country's people the armenian genocide genocide is the word used in armenia to describe the policy pursued by the ottoman

empire towards ethnic armenians from the late nineteenth century through to the nineteenth twenties in total in ninety eight united for nine hundred twenty two were doing thirty years needed to move thirty years nearly one point five million are. killed brutally at the same time turkey was the first country to officially recognize armenians independence in one nine hundred ninety one today turkish society is divided over the events that led to the deaths of one and a half million armenians in the early twentieth century and killer a fuse is to officially acknowledge the fact there what happened a century ago was genocide is one of the hardest and thorny problems between two nations the fundamental problem the fundamental problem here is. turkey in order is sort of facing its own history and try and keep trying to deny the very

part of take issue shameful page of its own history i mean and genocide rewriting history is one of the dangerous processes in every society of ankara supported as otherwise than at the height of the ethnic conflict as in the garden he cared about it closed its borders to armenians the border between armenia and azerbaijan is likewise locked up. given airport is the main gateway to armenia travelers have little choice considering year of anne's difficult relations with neighboring countries these east way of getting together van is by air with both of. you have to go by here if you want to leave early and was the only way because this country has been located throughout the post soviet period. for seventy has land borders with georgian around but there is little cross border traffic here and therefore going by here is still of their stock. nearly every plane is filled to

capacity it's clearly demonstrated by flights going to russia which is now armenia's biggest economic partner one of the largest armenian diasporas is found in moscow. that is deviation is be only a means of transport for amenia it's obvious that there is no other way out. that's why all drains are always full of passengers. armenia was the world's first country to turn christianity into a state religion that was way back in the early fourth century a.d. for more than fifteen centuries armenians have regarded face and church as a substitute for the state. i honor can work and saving human souls

and preserving the nation are the two missions pursued by the armenian church today as it has been doing throughout its existence we're doing our best to remedy the harm done by the genocide of armenians and eighty years of godlessness under the soviet regime. fortunately the soviet campaign to stamp out the church had little impact in armenia it didn't affect the scores of ancient monasteries many of them are over a thousand years old. it's now possible to reach the top of ministry one of armenians oldest by cable way. is the world's longest reversible roadway a fifteen minute journey offers a magnificent view of a deep picturesque pool. that is just numbers we're in the cabin of the total cable way the world's longest it links the village of avid sword to the total monastery

exists but there's love it is five thousand seven hundred fifty metres long and its highest point above ground is three hundred twenty meters lots and. when the cableway was opened in october twenty ten the hope was that it would attract foreign tourists. its design is unique in many ways for instance the nearly six kilometer long cable way has only three supports european specialists help to build it. this is our main electric generator that produces five hundred thirty three kilowatts here you can see be emergency diesel generators if the electricity fails we will turn these on and of back you with the passengers we have a great safety system in place. most of the cable car passengers are people living in nearby villages who gets. free transport influx of foreign tourists is small for

the time being but the businessmen who have invested in the ambitious project believe that in a couple of years armenia will become a popular tourist destination. hotels and campsites are already being built around the monastery and the cable way. we need water of different temperatures to treat gastrointestinal diseases destroyed is in particular if the patient is suffering from high city of destroys the temperature of the mineral water we give him is between fifty and fifty three degrees celsius in the low e. cities or cases it's from thirty to thirty five degrees going to. the town of jenin maclise in the mountains during the soviet years people here already knew how to attract tourists a spa similar to the celebrated karlovy valley resorts has been in operation in general but decades and that's it most of the composition of our award are doing better than that of the water it's our love of bahrain the czech republic. our

water contains more arms here our hands and minerals and than all that said bob. local mineral water is yet another brand it is true though that it's not as famous as cognac or ancient monasteries but residents of gentlemen hope that the water and spa resort will be another incentive for people to visit armenia. they germinal communal water springs from the ground in those words. between forty five and sixty degrees or what most sold certain months results from our mineral water of the. the time being only tourists from russia visit the general springs. this huge bucket contains molten alamy and it will take several hours and a production process involving a dozen phases for the island medium to be turned into super fine for oil this plant is one of amin is leading industrial enterprises like many others it was

inherited from the soviet era but like most other industrial plants he said and all during the first years of independence that was a very difficult period for this nation to plans for viable began in two thousand when he became part of a. and holding them up this is not the country was reopened after modernization. despite the crisis it has grown stronger with each passing year it is their actions and armenians worked here together be assets our russian people. other turn stepan young represents what might be called the local element in the state his father used to work at this plant my old and my mother and father used to work here now it's time for my brother and me but i'm not a unique case and everybody here has taken the job over from their old folks. the plant is one of the most successful in the country it should come as no surprise

they have russian investment and the whole of the coaxes as their market. would for example the color of the more taro you see a little bit so we will get dice from herbs ago the mixture of many dyes meets the road salute darker it looks like serif there are fewer daughters the root of matter produces a very beautiful red dye no chemicals around it nothing but natural components making rugs is a family business to the subtleties of this very old armenian handicraft handed down from generation to generation. because the little square means an artist with a weave row after row boats and every color is here it is. like the element implants this factory has a soviet past behind it then automatic looms are brought in to make rugs quickly and in large quantities none the less ancient technologies have become popular in

armenia since independence. it takes a month for the weaver to complete one square meter is also a very difficult job taking a lot of effort for that reason there are prices are higher than those of machinery who are absorbed all the dentist. i mean such europe at home is seen as a sign of the world's. there is some ten million ethnic armenians around the world just over three million of them live in armenia the armenians at home believe that the worst of their country's history is a thing of the past and yet of and they like to say the nights are the darkest just before dawn people across all media believe that jordan has already broken over their country.

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