Photo: Nezaravka Kirova
Silistra today commemorates the victims of the mass slaughter of Armenians during the First World War in the Ottoman Empire.
At 18:00, wreaths and flowers will be laid in front of the memorial, built in 2005, in the courtyard of the 400-year-old Armenian Church of the Holy Virgin.
Until the end of the last century, there were still alive in Silistra, who were miraculously saved, witnesses of the genocide of the Armenian people.
Today, there are no more than 30 pure Armenians in the Danube city, the rest are Armenians by fate.
The first Armenians in this region were written about as early as the 60s of the 5th century, but there are definite documents about the settlement of this community in Silistrensko only from 1622 – documents about collecting a tax from the Armenians.
Erol Emilov worked on the publication
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