Mer Hayrenik, meaning Our Fatherland, is the national anthem of Armenia. Its text is a poem by the Armenian writer Mikael Nalbandian, written in the nineteenth century, and its music is a melody composed by Barsegh Kanachyan, an Armenian choir director and composer. The song was adopted as the anthem of the first Republic of Armenia in 1918, when the country briefly became independent after the First World War. It was replaced during the Soviet period, when Armenia was a Soviet republic, and it was restored when Armenia regained independence in 1991. It is sung at official events and in the Armenian diaspora.
Before and after
- 16 December 1917Birth of Arthur C. Clarke
- 21 December 1917Birth of Heinrich Böll
- from 1918 to 1920Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–1920)
- 1918Shche ne vmerla Ukrainy i slava, i volia
- 1918Publication of Mer Hayrenik
- 1918Founding of Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- from January 1918 to December 19201918–1920 flu pandemic
- from 1918 to 1922Japanese intervention in Siberia
- 8 January 1918Fourteen Points
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