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YEREVAN, JANUARY 17, ARMENPRESS: The information and photos of about 2,500 Armenian inscriptions on the Armenian churches and cemeteries in Aleppo have been summed up in the exclusive book of Raffi Kortoshian “The Inscriptions of Aleppo”. Kortoshian told at the press conference held on January 17 that the idea of writing the book appeared to him back in 2004, when he was in Aleppo.
“Visiting the cemetery, I was interested in the names and the birth places written on the gravestones, which mainly presented the settlements of the Western Armenia”, - said Kortoshian, Armenpress reports.
The present work mainly treats the inscriptions of the Armenian churches and cemeteries of Aleppo. For the first time in Armenian Studies, it dwells upon the epitaphs of the Armenian natives of different districts of the Ottoman Empire (as well as Western Armenia) who survived the Genocide of 1915 and took up living in Aleppo.