31 Mar 07, 22:10
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Армяне в Бережаны (город в Зап.Украине)
Above: Grave monument of one Armenian family "Stanislawowicz" (? or something like this as fa as I managed to raed parallel Polish inscription at the bottom) at Berezhany Cemetery. Top inscription (on the photo) is in Armenian charcters and you can see Armenia cross on the top.
Armenian settlement: Berezhany also boasts the Armenian Church. Berezhany was one of a few towns in Central Eastern Europe which had the Armenian colony. Armenians established colony in Berezhany, Lviv and Buchach escaping Moslem opression and persecutions in Armenia. Most of Berezhany Armenians were assimiliated by local Poles and adopted Polish surnames althou a desolate Armenian church (built in typical Armenian architechture style) still stands in the center of the town, as a dumb witness of once vivid Armenian life in Berezhany (see page in Polish about Polish Armenians by Krzysztof A. Wozniak, whose great, great, great grandfather was an Armenian chief in Berezhany, as he tells). See picture of Armenian Church's ruins in Berezhany
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