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During the Karabagh movement of 1988, many forgotten, omitted, or distorted “white pages” of the Soviet Armenian past, as they were called at the time, started being disclosed. One of the most conspicuous phenomena was the gradual return to the scene of the symbols of the first independent Republic of Armenia (1918 -1920), the flag, the coat-of-arms, a nd the anthem, which would conclude with their full re -establishment after the independent republic was restored in 1991. In the period from the 1920s to the 1980s, the flag and the anthem in particular were weaponized in the political conflict that subsumed the internal relations of the Armenian diaspora and its relationship with Soviet Armenia. In the case of the anthem, the debate around its textual and music al authenticity was also part of the diasporan conflict. This history still awaits its full reckoning and is not discussed here. Several erroneous views have enjoyed wide currency for a long time: the text of the poem “Song of the Italian Girl,” which formed the basis of the Armenian national anthem “Our Homeland,” could not have been written by its author Mikael Nalbandian (1829 - 1866), but only transposed or translated by him into Armenian, while its music by Parsegh Ganatchian (1885 -1967) could have been borrowed from Alexander Glazunov’s ballet “Raymonda” (1898). The evidence shows that these claims are devoid of solid grounds and should be regarded as the result of insufficient information or ignorance. Besides the treatment of these questions, this study focuses on the early history of the anthem until the period 1918-1920, which is tied to its restoration after 1991.

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