Mount Ararat with the historic Khor Virap monastery visible at center-left

Culture

Armenian cultural identity is preserved through unique naming traditions, where most Armenians share a small pool of traditional first names while maintaining distinctive family surnames ending in '-ian' or '-yan' meaning 'son of'.

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