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Wikipedia, Armenian delegation at the Berlin Congress

Associated with Khoren Nar Bey

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Wikipedia, "Armenian delegation at the Berlin Congress" (English Wikipedia). Records Khoren Nar Bey Kalfayan as dispatched to Saint Petersburg in 1878 to deliver a memorandum to Tsar Alexander II requesting autonomy for the Armenian provinces, and as translator to Mkrtich Khrimian ("Khrimian Hayrik") at the Congress of Berlin.

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Khoren Nar Bey (c. 1831–1892) — also recorded as Khoren Kalfayan, Coren Calfa, and Khoren Nar Bey Kalfayan — was an Armenian ecclesiastical figure who became Archbishop of Constantinople. As part of the Armenian delegation, he was dispatched to Saint Petersburg in 1878 to deliver a memorandum to Tsar Alexander II requesting autonomy for the Armenian provinces, and served as translator to Mkrtich Khrimian at the Congress of Berlin. He is documented in the CERL Thesaurus as the brother of Ambroise Calfa.

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