Armenians

Armenians are a Christian people native to the Middle East. The kingdom which once ruled their hereditary homeland was the first government to make Christianity its official state religion in world history.

In the late 1910s and early 1920s, Armenia was occupied by the Ottoman Empire, and Armenians were the victims of a systematic genocide perpetuated by the Turks. The United States, to which a number of Armenian immigrants had moved over the years, attempted to lead an international protest, but German support for its Turkish ally, late of the Central Powers, left Philadelphia.