Letter from Africa: Ethiopia's lost Armenian community
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On previous visits to the city, I had always been intrigued by the snippets I had heard about the community and its history. Under his leadership, Ethiopia began to rapidly modernise and Armenian courtiers, businessmen and traders played an important role in this transition.The church, in the heart of the old commercial centre of Addis Ababa, was built in the 1930s
The 40 orphans, or arba lijoch in Amharic, were all trained in music and went on to form the imperial brass band of Ethiopia.Despite their small numbers the Armenian community had a crucial role in ushering Ethiopia into the modern world"The community reached its zenith in the 1960s when it numbered 1,200.
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