IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE EXILED HAMSHEN ARMENIANS (TRAVELOGUE, ETHNOGRAPHY, FOLKLORE, DICTIONARY)

By: Sergey Vardanyan,

Yerevan, Lusakn, 2025, 432 p.

The book is about Islamized Hamshen Armenians who, along with people of other ethnicities, were exiled in 1944 from the border villages of Adjara to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. For many years, nothing was published about this in the press or academic literature. It was only 40 years later, in 1984, that Sergey Vardanyan managed to find them in Central Asia, uncover the unknown pages of the past of the Islamized Hamshen Armenians, and document unique ethnographic, folkloric, and dialectological materials.