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00:00So long
00:20So long
00:41So long, my treasure
00:54So long, my treasure
01:12Armenia, a small country
01:17of nearly 3 million people
01:20located north of Iran
01:23dates back millennia.
01:27Armenia was the first nation
01:29to adopt Christianity
01:31as the official state religion
01:33in the early 4th century.
01:35The Armenians had their own
01:37language and rich cultural
01:39and intellectual traditions.
01:41In the 1500s, the Armenians
01:43were absorbed into the Islamic
01:45Ottoman Empire, where they lived
01:47under a system that allowed them
01:49to live side by side
01:51and elevated them to a lower status.
01:54In the early 20th century,
01:56the Ottomans turned on the Armenians
01:58and committed genocide,
02:00slaughtering as many as
02:021.5 million Armenians
02:04in the most violent ways imaginable.
02:07To this day, the Ottoman successor
02:09of the Turkish government
02:11denies the genocide ever happened.
02:14Ultimately, a small part of the
02:16historic Armenian homeland
02:18was absorbed into the Soviet Union,
02:20where the Armenians lived
02:22under communist rule.
02:24This land became free in 1991.
02:27This is the land that today
02:29we call Armenia.