ARMENIA

ARMENIA

ARMENIAN CULTURE

MUSIC CLOTHES RELIGION DANCE FOOD DIFFERENT INGREDIANTS

CHARACTERSITICS OF THE COUNTRY

Marriage

Religion

ARMENIAN gastronomy:

dishes

Lahmacun •Typical dish •Armenian pizza•Eaten with lemon slices and a bit of salad on top•Round and thin mass with menaced mead mixed with vegetables

SARMA

•Menaces meet wat ingredients covered by a leave.

•Can be served with lemon slices

•The name from turkey, since there sarma means surrounded.

•Must be boiled

Tabbouleh

Armenian entrance which is an Armenian salad. It

contains: onions, burgul, tomato, water, lemon

juice and min t

Thin and flat bread which is

present to accompany

Armenian dishes such as humus which is like a

“pasta”

Lavash

BACKLAVÁ

TYPICAL INGREDIENTS Burgul: a type of wheat.

Cabello de angel

Semloa

Leave which is used in the sarma

Menaced meat

Nuts

ARMENIAN DANCE

AND CLOTHING

MusicArmenian instruments:

-pander and bambir, the violin prototypes -the strings, tavikh and knar- the wind instruments, reed pipe, zurn, avagpog-percussions - drums.

Armenian composers - Aram Khachaturyan, Mikhael Tariverdiev and Arno Babadzhanyan.

TRaditions/ Festivals

Women's Day 7 April The commemoration of the 1915 genocide of the Armenians 24 AprilThe Independence Day of the current republic of Armenia, 21 September

On church holidays in front of the house where a baby was born music played and the house was decorated with green branches – the symbol of family continuation. The child is not shown to anybody but the relatives for 40 days after birth.

Next morning after the wedding women related to the groom bring a red apple symbolizing the virginity to the bride's home

CLOTH AND DANCING Entreating and exciting

dance

Very long dresses in waist wrapped in a long silk scarf

Long brides, usually two

Some men have a handkerchief.

Hats