Rouben Galichian gives an illustrated presentation of maps of the past 2600 years, showing a country called Armenia has existed in the same area from then to the present time. For six to seven centuries when Armenia did not exist as a sovereign entity, the name Armenia continued to appear on almost all maps over the region from the Euphrates River, Mush, west of Lake Van to the confluence of the Kura and Arax rivers in the east. The maps shown have been taken form the rich cartographic collections of various countries in the West, as well as the Middle East.
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Rouben Galichian was born in Tabriz, Iran, in a family of survivors of the Genocide from Van. After schooling in Tehran, he obtained a scholarship to study engineering at Aston University in the UK. Back in Iran, he established an engineering consulting company there, returning to the UK after the Islamic Revolution. In London he became active in community organizations and after the independence of Armenia, was instrumental in setting up the Armenian Embassy in London, where he worked as Honorary Consul for eight years. Since early retirement he has devoted his time to his hobby of cartography, resulting in over twenty books on maps of Armenia and related subjects over the past 20 years.
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Portrait of Rouben
