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Goats pass through Xackoy's stone-built village lane.

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Xackoy (Khach): Armenian History and Alevi Memory in Tercan (Historic Derjan), Erzincan Province

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Xackoy’s history is documented through very different sources: an eleventh-century Armenian chronicle, later place-name records, district-wide Ottoman figures, and present-day Alevi memories. Read together, they establish the village’s place in Derjan’s Armenian history while showing why its specific population and family histories remain difficult to recover.

Edward Tashjian·2026.10.09Read article →

Marali Bek-Marmarchev (1870–1937), the forgotten photographic model

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Behind a familiar face lies a forgotten name, a larger story about how nineteenth-century photography in the Caucasus shaped identities, circulated stereotypes, and continues to influence how we read historical images today.

Sylvain Chardonnet-Marmarian·2026.09.23Read article →