Հաճնոյ բարբառով բանահիւսական գողտրիկ փունջ մը
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2014
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The historic Armenian town of Hadjin, located in northern Cilicia, was overrun by the Kemalists in 1921. Those who survived the massacres settled in the Middle East, Greece, France and the USA.
The author brings to the limelight seven newly-discovered folkloric poems of Hadjin. The poems were written down by Harutyun Hovagimian (Dakessian), who ran a hotel in Zahle and wrote down the stories and folkloric memories of Armenians who visited him or rented a room in the hotel during summer.
These poems reflect the socio-economic conditions of the town, the difficulties of matching bride and groom, the complaints of the lonely wife whose husband had become a migrant worker, etc. Some of these poems were compared before the loss of the town to the Turks. Two poems, however, were composed in the 1930s and 1940s; they depict the agony of the Hadjintsi who misses his native town and has not seen it for decades. Nonetheless, his soul is somewhat consoled by the fact that a new Hadjin is being built in Soviet Armenia.
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Տագէսեան, Ա., «Հաճնոյ բարբառով բանահիւսական գողտրիկ փունջ մը», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2014, Պէյրութ, էջ 301-308