5 Things You Should Know About the Armenian Christian Genocide
Glendale, California, Has the Largest Armenian Population in Western World
Approximately 200,000 Armenians live in the greater Los Angeles area, and its "beating heart," according to the BBC, is Glendale, California, a suburb that has a population that is around 30 percent Armenian. Many of those Armenians first came to Southern California because of the violence against them in their homeland in the early 20th century.
Due to frequent conflicts in the region, more and more Armenians have been dispersed.
"What began as a trickle turned into a series of waves — a result of the war and economic disruption in areas the Armenians had subsequently settled," the BBC reported.
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"They fled the Iranian revolution in the 1970s, the Lebanese Civil War in the 1980s, the break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, the Iraq War in the 2000s and, in the past few years, the Syrian civil war."
