He was an Armenian academician, philologist, linguist, and lexicographer. During his career, Malkhasyants translated many works of Armenian classical historians. The chosen red, blue, and orange flag colors come from the Lusignan period. At that time, the red, blue, yellow flag was the official. Soon yellow was replaced by orange as it better merged with the other two colors.
And still, the orange color has a symbolic meaning. As for the beginning, the ratio of the national flag was Later, it was changed to The other prototype that was rejected was the rainbow version of the flag. However, this prototype is saved and kept in the House-Museum of Martiros Saryan, in the capital city of Yerevan. During different periods of time, Armenia had various flags.
For instance, during the Armenian history, each dynasty introduced its flag usually, with a symbolizing animal. This animal could be a tiger, eagle, dragon or any other animal.
For example, there were two eagles gazing at each other, and a flower between them, in the flag of the Artaxiad Dynasty. The background of the flag was red. According to one of the explanations, the color red is taken as a symbol of the blood of the Armenian nation. During history, these people have much struggled against foreign invasions. The greatest reason was religion. We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements.
To allow us to provide a better and more tailored experience please click "OK". Sign Up. Travel Guides. Videos Beyond Hollywood Hungerlust Pioneers of love. A Brief History of Armenia's Flag. Baia Dzagnidze. How the tricolor flag came to be. National flag days. Give us feedback. Read Next View. Ecokayan Dilijan Resort Hotel. The term "dram," when translated into English, means "money. The Armenian dram is denoted as AMD in the international format.
The inaugural series of the currency coins circulated from to The aluminum coins featured denominations of 1, 3, 5, and 10 drams in addition to 10, 20, and 50 luma. The dram coin is the only one currently in use. Although the other denominations circulate officially, they are hardly used due to their low nominal value. New denominations were released in and made up of 10, 20, 50, , as well as dram coins.
Printed on the coins is the particular year they were first initially rolled out. The introductory series of the dram's banknotes were rolled out in November The notes consisted of the denominations 10, 25, 50, , , as well as dram. Banknotes for and dram were subsequently released.
The series was withdrawn by Notes of 50, , and drams are barely used and are thus scarcely in circulation. On June 4, , a 50,dram note was dispensed to commemorate the th anniversary of the acceptance of Christianity in the nation.
The new banknotes boast a higher protection level than that of the earlier notes. The current banknotes of the dram are designed by experts drawn from England and Germany. The nation's noted artists and scientists and historical and cultural monuments, as well as the beautiful fragments of paintings by the great Armenian painter — Martiros Sarian, have been drawn on the Armenian banknotes.
The pre-history of a dram currency dates back to to , a period during which silver coins referred to as dram circulated. After Armenia became a republic in September , the newly created Central Bank of Armenia was granted the crucial mandate on March 27, , to issue the national currency.
CIS countries supported the introduction and circulation of the Russian ruble as a unified currency. Armenia joined the confederation, but the uncertain economic and political situation made it problematic to sustain a common currency.
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