Արեւմտահայերէն
Western Armenian
Washington Heights +1Several waves of Western Armenian speakers, often highly multilingual, have arrived in New York City over the course of the 20th century. Many of the earliest migrants fled destitution and genocide in the Ottoman Empire, in what is today Turkey, and arrived via third countries, including Bulgarian-Armenians from Bulgaria; some 5,000 Romanian-Armenians (largely from Bucharest) who settled in Sunnyside thanks to the Displaced Persons Act; Lebanese Armenians fleeing the country's civil war; Armenians from Iran who arrived after the 1979 Revolution (though most went to LA).
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ubstantial Armenian communities, primarily speaking Western Armenian , grew up in Manhattan beginning in the early 20th century. Part of today's Murray Hill was an early Little Armenia, followed by the establishment of a community in Washington Heights. The assassination of Archbishop Leon Tourian at Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church in Washington Heights in 1933, tied to doctrinal and political differences and the wider Armenian national movement, was a signal polarizing event in the history of New York's Armenian community. There has also been a long-standing Armenian presence in Manhattan's Diamond District.
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