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AUGUST 2012
Translation for days: Armenian
SUNDAY
kiraki
5
12
19
26
MONDAY
erkushabt‘i
6
13
20
27
TUESDAY
erek‘shabt‘i
7
14
Independence Day
PAKISTAN
21
28
Eid al-Fitr* – Festival of
Fast-Breaking
Celebrates the end
of Ramadan
WEDNESDAY
chorek‘shabt‘i
1
8
15
Independence Day
INDIA
22
29
THURSDAY
hingshabt‘i
2
9
16
23
30
FRIDAY
urbat‘
3
10
17
24
31
SATURDAY
shabat‘
4
11
18
25
ABC
Communicating through the written word
Letters of the Armenian alphabet dominate the exhibit
of Armenian books at the 24th International Fair for
books and press in Geneva in May 2010. The Armenian
alphabet was created in 405 CE and was immediately
used to translate philosophical, scientific, historical, and
religious writings from Greek and Syriac into Armenian.
The year 2012 marks the 500th anniversary of the
printing of the first Armenian book Urbatagirk or Friday
Book in Venice. During Geneva’s 26th International Fair
for books and press, the Armenian capital of Yerevan
was represented as the World Book Capital 2012, a
selection made by the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Yerevan
is the 12th capital to have this distinction.
DID YOU
KNOW?
• Leather Shoe. The world’s oldest leather shoe was
found in Armenia during an archaeological dig in
a cave in 2010. The relatively small shoe is approximately
a U.S. women’s size 7. It was made from a single
piece of cowhide, customized to the wearer's foot.
Archaeologists estimate it is 5,500 years old.
Era 8, 20th century since 1945
• Garni Temple. The royal bathhouse of Garni Temple
in Armenia was built in the third century CE. The main
room, with a mosaic floor portraying mythological
figures, served as a dressing room. The floors of the
other three rooms were faced with baked bricks
covered with a layer of polished stucco and were
heated from below with hot air and smoke.
Eras 1–3, beginnings to 650 CE/AD